Originally Posted by
Arcadian
I had this issue today with a ricoh mp5500. the toner bottle cork was stuck and not dispensing the toner maybe you forgot to take something off the toner bottle to feed the powder to the machine.
I removed the cork and clean the area around the cork then I replaced it and put the toner bottle back in, and presto my machine working, not giving "toner needed" error. its was a new bottle, probably sitting for a long time. check to see if anything obstructing the port where the toner goes into the developer, also it could be your developer unit going bad too. try swapping it out to see it that is the problem.
good luck
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