Print Quality on Phaser 860

[kevinbeyer]

So, I replaced the lights on the phaser 860. No problems there except the whole losing a bushing thing...

When I turned her on today (first time since putting her back together), the print is....well, not sticking, I guess.
A few splotches of ink on the page, nothing recognizable.

I'm 99.9999% sure [from extensive flashlight searches ] that my bushing isn't inside the printer, so it's not causing any problems.

Never used anything but Xerox ink sticks.

Got an off-brand of halogen lights (only ones I could find in the right wattage). Is it possible/likely that they're not hot enough to prep the paper for the ink?

Ran both the remove smears & eliminate stripes to no avail.

 

[kevinbeyer]

Got it!

Turned out I hooked the printhead return spring to the long slot thingy instead of the hole in the arm.

Phone call had interrupted me originally when I was putting it together, and apparently I hastily hooked it to the wrong hole