Hello people
today i had the misfortune of being asked to assess this extinct pre-historic dinosaur - it has 800k black n 500k color prints on it - the client has about a grand of consumables and would like to know if i can revive it Jurassic Park style & not just throw their consumables away with the beast
i ran a few hundred prints,, all seemed okay, nice solid blacks, no jams, no errors, but when i tried to run single colour copies, yellow n cyan were nice n solid, but magenta came out completely blank, not even a whif of color - i put a new magenta toner in it,, but still blank, i ran gradations (both) and no errors came up - i noticed no developer spillage anywhere
i didn't want to spend ages dismantling the carousel & removing the magenta developer unit without first doing some research - i found a service manual and am now reading through it all
it may be as simple as a broken dev drive gear, or depleted dev,, or poor dev unit seating, but i was hoping someone who is older than Adams' great grandfather may have the dim past-life memory of some experience with this thing, and may be able to guide me further without me wasting hours n hours researching
it seems if i got the magenta working, this thing may well operate long enough for them to use their consumables - they are looking to get a new machine, but would like to use this as a stop-gap in the meanwhile
any help would be very much appreciated
Andy
today i had the misfortune of being asked to assess this extinct pre-historic dinosaur - it has 800k black n 500k color prints on it - the client has about a grand of consumables and would like to know if i can revive it Jurassic Park style & not just throw their consumables away with the beast
i ran a few hundred prints,, all seemed okay, nice solid blacks, no jams, no errors, but when i tried to run single colour copies, yellow n cyan were nice n solid, but magenta came out completely blank, not even a whif of color - i put a new magenta toner in it,, but still blank, i ran gradations (both) and no errors came up - i noticed no developer spillage anywhere
i didn't want to spend ages dismantling the carousel & removing the magenta developer unit without first doing some research - i found a service manual and am now reading through it all
it may be as simple as a broken dev drive gear, or depleted dev,, or poor dev unit seating, but i was hoping someone who is older than Adams' great grandfather may have the dim past-life memory of some experience with this thing, and may be able to guide me further without me wasting hours n hours researching
it seems if i got the magenta working, this thing may well operate long enough for them to use their consumables - they are looking to get a new machine, but would like to use this as a stop-gap in the meanwhile
any help would be very much appreciated
Andy
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