And there you have it - that's how i fixed the ghosting and smudges issue on my Phaser 3010. I'm sure this seems and likely is a very ill advised, poorly thought out and uneducated method. But it ...

Xerox launched a bunch of new printers for small to medium sized business. The model launched for small businesses was the Phaser 3010, a monochrome printer.

I've used the cartridges myself, which look like tiny wax cubes, in Xerox Phaser 8560 printers. If you're unfamiliar with solid ink, they're pretty easy to use.

The Phaser 3600/N buzzed through our text-based speed tests at a rate of 35.5 pages per minute (ppm)–a bit short of the 40 ppm rate that Xerox promises, but still quite fast.