FMAudit not reading supply data on Ricoh MP 4055

[slimslob]

Re: FMAudit not reading supply data on Ricoh MP 4055

The issues come up like this. Toner is caked in tube, machine says out of toner, customer removes tube, notices there is still plenty of toner in tube, shakes tube and reinserts back into machine.

Excessive clumping is often the result of improper storage. The design of most Ricoh B/W toner bottles is a long slender tube with a flat bottom that lends itself to being easier to store setting on that flat bottom. This causes the toner to settle and compact at the bottom (back end) of the bottle. The longer it sets, the more compacted/clumped it becomes. Ricoh recommends that toner be stored laying flat in order to reduce clumping.

[tonerhead]

Re: FMAudit not reading supply data on Ricoh MP 4055

Excessive clumping is often the result of improper storage. The design of most Ricoh B/W toner bottles is a long slender tube with a flat bottom that lends itself to being easier to store setting on that flat bottom. This causes the toner to settle and compact at the bottom (back end) of the bottle. The longer it sets, the more compacted/clumped it becomes. Ricoh recommends that toner be stored laying flat in order to reduce clumping.

That's right, now train the customers who can't read the labels saying so on the boxes. Just about all of the customers stack them the wrong way. You just can't fix stupid.

[copyman]

Re: FMAudit not reading supply data on Ricoh MP 4055

Sorry for being off topic but had a funny story about FM audit. Probably around 10-15 yrs ago my friend who is serv mgr for a big Kon/Min dealer was in a meeting with owner & think it was FM audit. FM was there trying to sell them their program, at the time it cost like $5k or something crazy like that. My friend asks FM if they buy the program which was basically a USB drive could it be copied, they said no way it is protected and couldn't be copied. After sitting for another 10 mins asks if he could go try it, they handed him the thumb drive and he went directly to his office instead of trying it and copied the files! It worked perfectly. He even gave me a copy but I never had any use for it. I think there is a software that goes along with it and didn't have that but when you inserted the USB drive it would read all the equipment on the network with toner levels, out of paper, error codes etc. Needless to say his company never bought the program. True story. I still have the thumb drive in toolbag after all these years.

This same friend has given me copies of Adobe prof, illustrater, etc. He has a knack for cracking license codes, etc. Only thing he wasn't able to crack is the Kip key codes for the options. Hasn't done it in years, said he didn't want to spend his retirement in jail. LOL