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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
I know this may sound a little underhanded but when a model goes out of production, I have no problem running aftermarket toner in those machines. When it starts to make copy/print quality problems, it is an opportunity to talk to the customer about for an upgrade. Even if its an newer used model.
Agree or not, this strategy has served me well.Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
I've replaced the drum now with a new one (but same old dv box with katun toner). Seems smearing has disappeared.
I'm really not sure if it's the toner or was the drum really worn out.
Drum has has lasted 390 000 pages.
Is there a possibility to reset the drum counter now. So that the printer won't display "maintenance" at 500 000 pages?
Thank you.Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
Katun is very overpriced for third party toners. I used them years ago for Panasonic machines but I have never been impressed with their overpriced products. They do have a good offering of tools and bags though.
We use ACM compatibles for our Kyocera printers and, thus far, they have been spectacular. Dirt cheap, reliable and always in stock.
I always get samples before purchasing third party toners. If they claim they are so wonderful for the price, have them send you some samples for testing. If they won't, don't buy from them.
Failing to plan is planning to fail!!!Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
What you can try to do to clear up the copies from generic toner is to put OEM toner in and run 50 or more sky shots to run out the generic toner.Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
One of the side effects of using aftermarket toner is poor drum cleaning. Re-priming the blade, or changing the drum unit will help in the short term ... but the cleaning issue will surely re-surface sooner than later. Were it me, I'd get genuine Kyocera toner into the machine. =^..^=If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
The cost difference is crazy for home user talking maybe 5x the cost for genuine Vs OEM. I've seen a few Dev units get clogged up or they start to over tone and spills into the machine.
You can usually tell because genuine toner polishes the drum non genuine scuffs the surface so it's harder to clean. I have a feeling on slower machines it will work better but on anything over 40ppm not worth it.Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
Shove that Katan crap up your A**!!Comment
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Re: Kyocera Printers and Katun Toner - What are your experiences?
It really depends upon the model machine. The older kyoceras seemed to do just fine with aftermarket such as the 2550, 3050 4050 5050 type machines. I upgraded so many of those to the 6525 MFP and I found about a 20% failure rate in aftermarkets. I would get a grey band on the back of the copy about 1 to 2 inches thick. I finally diagnosed the problem to toner, you can vacuum out the old and install new or just swap the developer unit with a good used one that has OEM toner in it. I still use it for certain customers that don't do 2 sided and don't care if the back has a grey band on it, it does save money but you have to pick and choose where you use it.Comment
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