Hi to everyone,
being new to this forum and being an user not a technician, I hope you will not ban me, but give me a bit of your expert insight.
Four years ago I bought a Ricoh Aficio MP 161 SPF. Now the machine has 63304 copies / prints made, which seems to be not so much.
Unfortunately the paper separator of the adf is making trouble, I get multi feeding, if I put in eg. 20 copies, the first 15 are ok, then the rest is pulled in as one page, the adf jamms. I used first isopropylalkohol and then fine sandpaper on the rubber rolls of the upper two and lower rubber roller and put some grease on the spring of the lower roller push-up mechanism. It helped - none. The separation rollers seem to be spent.
Now in addition to this I get a sight horizontal stripes covering the whole of the pages, not only if I scan or copy, also when I am printing via USB or printing a journal of the machine. It seems to be that the drum unit is also spent. I do not know if it has been changed so far, if not 63k pages seem very ok.
I asked Rico here in Frankfurt, Germany, they told me the drum unit would be about 400 € which is about the same in USD. On Amazon I could get the drum unit for about 80-100 €/USD.
If I repair the drum unit, the rollers what else is going to break? Could anyone tell me, the life cycle of the fuser unit? The machine being some years old, spare parts for newer printers might be easier to get....
Thanks, Jens
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