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    Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    is it just me or is anyone else noticing that the magenta is the only color that is smearing on this machine? I have had several customers complain about the red getting splotchy and transferring to the other pages...i swapped out developers on a couple, others just the whole pcu...and they are still having that issue and i make most of them print on thick 1 to solve the issue.

    For full disclaimer on the color, yes, i am using compatible toners...but i am only seeing this happen on magenta, not any of the other colors. just wanted to post this and see if anyone else was having this issue.

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    You’re are using compat toners this is the cause, we had the same issue, we only use genuine now.
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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    Quote Originally Posted by ABS tect View Post
    is it just me or is anyone else noticing that the magenta is the only color that is smearing on this machine? I have had several customers complain about the red getting splotchy and transferring to the other pages...i swapped out developers on a couple, others just the whole pcu...and they are still having that issue and i make most of them print on thick 1 to solve the issue.

    For full disclaimer on the color, yes, i am using compatible toners...but i am only seeing this happen on magenta, not any of the other colors. just wanted to post this and see if anyone else was having this issue.
    It's very possible that whatever mix they are using in their magenta toners is bad.

    The constant between all your cases appears to be non Ricoh toner. Put new developer in the machine, suck the fake toner out of the supply system and use Ricoh toner and see if the problem goes away.

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    except for mono machines... Ricoh has never liked 3rd party color toners.. and that's back to mid 2000's

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    Compatible toner, even if is says OEM on it is only compatible as far as the general composition of the components. It is not compatible on quality control or particle size of component elements, which affects melting point needed for fusing.

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    except for mono machines... Ricoh has never liked 3rd party color toners
    are you serious ? Have you ever put compatible toner in the mp6000 onwards machines to see what it does to the machine ?

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    Quote Originally Posted by andy227 View Post
    are you serious ? Have you ever put compatible toner in the mp6000 onwards machines to see what it does to the machine ?
    Yes

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    This is what the drum unit looks after using this crap toner on every machine it has been put in. We should start a 'rogues gallery' of dodgy toners.


    20180208_145401.jpg20180219_113744.jpg

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    Re: Ricoh 03's magenta pcu

    We get that all the time with genuine toner!

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    We get that all the time with genuine toner!
    Yeah, after a few hundred K's , months of use, not after afew days .

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