MP C3003 Engineers opinion

[jonbonse]

Hi all

Just wondered what everyones opinion on the C3003 range was as I will be upgrading a C3300.

Are they reliable?

[tjvincent]

[sturmtrooper]

Re: MP C3003 Engineers opinion

We have a customer through Ricoh that is a nursing home. They have a C3003 they got in early 2014 as of 10/10/17 it had 183K color and 1.08 MILLION black on it. They beat this thing like it owes them money. We have replaced the fusing sleeve three times. When it had about 900k combined it shredded two of the gears in the fuser responsible for driving the fusing unit. There is a bulletin about this, I replaced the third covered by the bulletin recently I did notice that the two new gears had started to wear.

You might want to plan for replacing those gears every other fusing sleeve, the cost will probably be worth the decreased down time and they are easy to change during sleeve changes.

It still has the original ITB belt and is only on it's second belt cleaner, I should probably put a new one in soon. It's gone thrugh about 3 or 4 black PCUs and one black dev unit.

Overall I'd say it's done pretty well considering the usage it gets.

[Cipher]

Re: MP C3003 Engineers opinion

CPU Processing power / speed is probably the weakest point.
Cold boot ups and firmware updating are painfully slow.
(The MP C4503 and up is superior).

To be honest I prefer the MP C3300 as the build quality is better.
But they are getting old now.

[Ricohguy]

Re: MP C3003 Engineers opinion

CPU Processing power / speed is probably the weakest point.
Cold boot ups and firmware updating are painfully slow.
(The MP C4503 and up is superior).

To be honest I prefer the MP C3300 as the build quality is better.
But they are getting old now.

The fix for slow boot up on the 03 color models is to disable Java. Only do this if the customer doesn't use Java applications. SP5730, set to 1, then reboot. You can set back to 0 to reenable Java if needed.

[KenB]

[sturmtrooper]

Re: MP C3003 Engineers opinion

Yeah I checked the brochure and the 3003/3503 have a Sierra RM7035 proc running at 600mhz, the upper models have a Celeron running at 1.07ghz. Bargain basement but probably twice as powerful as the smaller chip.