MP C4504 human sensor

[LNorris]

i just got one of these in the office, but the human sensor is not turning on the machine. the user tools is turned on and the sp mode is on.

am i missing something?

[shutch7]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

It's a proximity sensor so it can wake up in 1 second when someone goes to use it, doesn't actually wake the machine up without been touched just allows almost instant startup.

[LNorris]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

cool, i was thinking it woke the machine up when walking up to it...so i guess its doing its thing.

thanks!

[slimslob]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

It gets things started but does not bring the display up until you either set an original in the DF, lift the DF or touch the display. The Aficio 551/700 had a motion sensor that brought the machine completely out of sleep mode every time anyone walked past it. It was a major pain in the ass.

[KenB]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

It gets things started but does not bring the display up until you either set an original in the DF, lift the DF or touch the display. The Aficio 551/700 had a motion sensor that brought the machine completely out of sleep mode every time anyone walked past it. It was a major pain in the ass.

I remember that.

Not exactly your basic crowd pleaser.

[laphibas]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

Excuse me, but I did not understand why the sensor does not activate the machine?
thanks for your patience

[Cipher]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

Excuse me, but I did not understand why the sensor does not activate the machine?
thanks for your patience

It's purpose is purely for background pre-recovery.
Not to actually wake the machine from sleep / energy save.

The idea being from the end users perspective is the machine reaches the ' Ready ' state almost instantly.
When in fact it actually had a few seconds head start when it detected motion up to 6ft away.

[KenB]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

Back in the day of the 551/700 we mentioned before, the machine actually did come completely awake, with the display turning back on.

Not only was it a waste of energy, but it used to freak people out.

We had more than a few calls for "It's turning itself on! Make it stop!"

BTW...There is an explanation in the service manual as to how the feature operates, I think it is about 3 pages. I actually sent those pages to a customer who was asking about it.

[pppp]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

It looks like the sensor pre-triggers the android waking up in the background when someone approaches the machine without switching on the display.
Hard to explain for end user. The machine is ready to use just after screen touching without a lag

[Nikolay]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

[sturmtrooper]

Re: MP C4504 human sensor

We have two machines out with this sensor but we have disabled it as they are both in very high traffic areas and we were concerned what the constant heating cycles might do to the machine.