What causes the toner to come off the printed paper in threads or hair-like fibers?
These threads are sometimes called shredded output and spider webbing. The fibers are not sticky and are a mixture of the same color being printed on the page. In certain cases, the fibers will be attached to a large clump of fused toner on the page. To alleviate this problem, first make sure the correct media weight setting is selected in the driver. It is very important that you don’t set the media weight too high or too low in the driver. If you are running very thin stock (less than 20 lb paper), setting the media weight too high can cause severe curling, jams, and sometimes browning, due to the heat of the fuser at that higher setting. If the media weight is set too low (eg. you are running 110 lb index via the manual feed), then the toner is not going to fuse properly and the toner will tend to smear down the page, producing threading. To recover the fuser if threading happens, run 50 blank sheets through the printer using the same media and the correct media weight setting. If t
