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  • dave@cpctek.com
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2024
    • 8

    Ricoh IM 7000 light copies

    We have a Ricoh IM7000 that eventually sucks enough developer out to cause light copies. Developer was changed and the copies were fine. Fifty thousand copies later it did the same thing. A new developer unit with fresh developer was installed and the copies were great again. Fifty k further down the road, the same thing happened again. This time it got fresh developer and a new drum. The images look great but i worry it is going to happen again. I was hoping someone here might be able to offer a solution. When and if it happens again, my next step would be the high voltage board that supplies charge and bias. This is in a low volume environment. It was installed new about 3 years ago and only has 170k clicks on it.
    Thanks in advance.
  • luca72
    Field Supervisor

    1,000+ Posts
    • Oct 2017
    • 1511

    #2
    Originally posted by dave@cpctek.com
    We have a Ricoh IM7000 that eventually sucks enough developer out to cause light copies. Developer was changed and the copies were fine. Fifty thousand copies later it did the same thing. A new developer unit with fresh developer was installed and the copies were great again. Fifty k further down the road, the same thing happened again. This time it got fresh developer and a new drum. The images look great but i worry it is going to happen again. I was hoping someone here might be able to offer a solution. When and if it happens again, my next step would be the high voltage board that supplies charge and bias. This is in a low volume environment. It was installed new about 3 years ago and only has 170k clicks on it.
    Thanks in advance.
    if you changed the development unit, and the developer, it should not happen anymore, let's try to be optimistic
    "loneliness is an invention of the white man, when we are alone we talk to everything around us, we are never alone" (Ojibwa)

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    • niticom
      Technician
      • Dec 2011
      • 12

      #3
      This same fault has happened to me in Ricoh MP8001, MP7502, MP7503 models. Change the imaging unit, the developer consumption is due to a failure of the quenching lamp and the cylinder is left with a residual charge, consuming developer.

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      • Leoculus
        Technician
        • Jul 2024
        • 15

        #4
        Way back in some aging 2051/5500 we would have issues with the toner supply clutch in the dev motor assembly failing causing light copies. they were 10 year old machines with over 3 million copies but if your supply clutch is failing it could also cause light copies. you cant get the clutch separately it is part of the motor assembly.

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        • dave@cpctek.com
          Junior Member
          • Aug 2024
          • 8

          #5
          Originally posted by Leoculus
          Way back in some aging 2051/5500 we would have issues with the toner supply clutch in the dev motor assembly failing causing light copies. they were 10 year old machines with over 3 million copies but if your supply clutch is failing it could also cause light copies. you cant get the clutch separately it is part of the motor assembly.
          I don't believe that is the case here. It is sucking enough developer from the developer unit to make the mag brush really thin and sparse. It isn't under-toned. Thank your for the response.

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          • dave@cpctek.com
            Junior Member
            • Aug 2024
            • 8

            #6
            Originally posted by luca72

            if you changed the development unit, and the developer, it should not happen anymore, let's try to be optimistic
            The developer and developer unit was changed together and 50k later the same thing happened. Thanks for the response.

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            • slimslob
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              Site Contributor
              25,000+ Posts
              • May 2013
              • 34940

              #7
              Originally posted by dave@cpctek.com

              I don't believe that is the case here. It is sucking enough developer from the developer unit to make the mag brush really thin and sparse. It isn't under-toned. Thank your for the response.
              In the past sucking developer was usually caused by being under-toned.

              You are using Genuine Ricoh parts and supplies?

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              • TonerMunkeh
                Professional Moron

                2,500+ Posts
                • Apr 2008
                • 3873

                #8
                This has been raised with Ricoh Japan and they are currently working on it, the only fix so far is to change the developer when the copy quality drops off. Not had a 7000 do it yet, just 9000's.
                It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

                Hit it.

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                • dave@cpctek.com
                  Junior Member
                  • Aug 2024
                  • 8

                  #9
                  Originally posted by slimslob

                  In the past sucking developer was usually caused by being under-toned.

                  You are using Genuine Ricoh parts and supplies?
                  Yes sir....all OEM parts and supplies.

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                  • copyboy99
                    Technician
                    • Jan 2020
                    • 17

                    #10
                    you may want check and replace this drive unit,

                    also to check if new Dev Unit have this filters installed A0963141, D0623108, B2473340
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                    • luca72
                      Field Supervisor

                      1,000+ Posts
                      • Oct 2017
                      • 1511

                      #11
                      I heard about the friction, but it has never happened to me.
                      but this problem happened to me years ago on mp5500, every two months I was changing the developer, then I discovered that the developer bags were old and poorly preserved, the technician before me kept them on the van for a long time, maybe hot and cold, he deteriorated the developer, since with a new supply it no longer happened on that machine.
                      "loneliness is an invention of the white man, when we are alone we talk to everything around us, we are never alone" (Ojibwa)

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