Color Laserjet 2600n: only red not printing properly, washed out on the left side

Hello,
Our HP2600 Color Laser printer does not print well whatever includes the color red. On a portrait layout the 2" from the left are washed out in red. We only use new HP cartridges, clean the machine regularly.
Error happens with different computers, XP and OS 10.
Machine is about 2.5 years old, estimated 100,000 pages have been printed on it.
Thanks
Su

I have two 2600n color laserjet printers.
One has color fading down the left hand side and I understand that this is due to dust accumulating on mirrors and laser.
More worrying is that the second printer will not print the color red at all - it gives an orange output

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