Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

[omorales]

Hello friends someone can tell me what kind of developer uses these models and cantadad.


Thank you

[slimslob]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

These A4 width units all use PCU replacement, not rebuild. Recommended life cycle is 45K. With a rather high % of them the gears on the development roller assembly fail around 35K. If you really want to ask for trouble, check the recipe number on the toner bottle and look for a developer that has the same number. Since these are narrower, you will ahve to determine the correct amount of developer to put in, only to have the gears fail two weeks later. Stay with replacing the PCU.

[mongo]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

Type 28 I rebuild them all the time the first rebuild I change the drum and blade only and clean the charge roller ( $22.00) The second time add in changing developer and gears ( Type 1027 ) roughly $ 50.00. I have about 90 of the machine in the field. I do have some early gear failure and drums dying but when you figure around 15% failure its worth my time compared to $119 for a new one. Ive not done any 301 so I'm not sure on the develop because the toner and PCU are different parts number Mongo

[StephenB]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

Type 28 I rebuild them all the time the first rebuild I change the drum and blade only and clean the charge roller ( $22.00) The second time add in changing developer and gears ( Type 1027 ) roughly $ 50.00. I have about 90 of the machine in the field. I do have some early gear failure and drums dying but when you figure around 15% failure its worth my time compared to $119 for a new one. Ive not done any 301 so I'm not sure on the develop because the toner and PCU are different parts number Mongo

Who sells the blades and drums ? Years ago Katun had a rebuild "kit" but the blades would always fail, and they never came out with a replacement.

[mongo]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

I get the drums and blades from Copylite. The developer from natrading

[Counsel]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

we dont rebuild the 1515 pcu or the 1027 pcu, however I will say we get more out of the 1515 most of ours last 60k or more with a pretty low percentage failing early usually the lower volume machines crap out earlier. The 1027s are lucky to make the 60k yield i would say a got 40% of these fail early and make a nice mess with it.

The 301s are a step backward in my opinion we don't rebuild these either and they crap out way early most of the time only reaching 25-35k before spewing toner out all over, heck most of the ones i take out of the box are already dropping toner out of the casing, they are definitely not as good as the previous gen 1515 pcus. If anyone ever determines that the 1515 works in a 301 we would switch back to using that one instead.

[slimslob]

Re: Type developer, Ricoh 1515,171,201,301

Who sells the blades and drums ? Years ago Katun had a rebuild "kit" but the blades would always fail, and they never came out with a replacement.

Yeah. My boss decided to save a little money about a year ago by ordering rebuild kits for a couple of 1027s. The cleaning blade on one started to give offsetting after about 2000 copies, one week. The lasted about a month. The synthetic material portion of the blade became too soft to clean the drum surface.