A network laser printer begins producing pages filled with random symbols and unreadable characters whenever large graphics-heavy PDF files are sent to it. Which of the following hardware issues could most likely cause this symptom?
Misaligned paper tray
Worn pickup rollers
Full waste-toner bottle
Defective or insufficient RAM installed in the printer
Laser printers must store an entire page as a raster image in their onboard RAM before printing. If that memory is faulty or too small for a complex job, the incoming data can be mis-interpreted, resulting in garbled text or random characters on the page. Misaligned paper trays, an empty waste-toner bottle, or worn pickup rollers create paper-handling or image-quality problems but do not corrupt the data stream the way defective or insufficient printer memory can.
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