Removal of Finisher on Bizhub C552

[Orlando Perrone]

Hello. I have come upon a Bizhub C552 from a school with what would be a lifetime of toner. I just needed it to be a large printer/copier. I don't need holes punched, I don't need staples, I just want it to be a big ol' laser printer. I find myself clearing jams out of the finisher quite often. Is there a procedure to remove it and just use the main unit? There is a large space of what seems to be an output tray just under the scanning unit. If I could remove the finisher and use that tray as output, that would be ok with me.

Please advise.

[copyman]

Just unplug finisher from machine and remove it. No settings or changes have to be made. The finishers are "plug & play".
You have to remove the transport bed along with finisher. Pages will fall onto metal plate inside cavity. There is a tray that goes inside the cavity OT-503. I have a customer that did the same thing with removing the finisher and they have been using it while I've been trying to find OT-503. Been almost a year and cannot find it. Reason they are hard to find is most of these 50+ ppm models were sold with finishers. Best of luck

[Orlando Perrone]

Ok. I unplugged everything that was attached to it, and it complained about something being opened and the screen didn't point to whatever it was.

[kingarthur]

Have you removed the bridging unit, the large part that sits under the scanner. I can't remember, if when the finisher was installed a "bridging" connector had to be removed just behind the control panel, in which case, if that's not refitted, you may have problems. It's been awhile since I saw one of these.

[copyman]

Did you remove and unplug connectors with machine off? Did you try turning off and on with "main power switch"? Also open and close front door to reset? As a last resort you can initalize the machine in service mode.

FS-527 install instructions & OT-503 attached