MPC25/4500 cyan pcu

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  • CableGuy
    Impulse Drive Engineer

    250+ Posts
    • Oct 2008
    • 417

    #1

    MPC25/4500 cyan pcu

    Hi all

    I was just wondering if anyone else is having a larger than normal failure rate on the cyan pcu, compared to the other colours that is. I have noticed a trend in my machines in the field, that if the customer produces something which uses a large coverage of cyan, the drum seems to fail even at a low mileage. This results in thick banding of cyan on a colour print/copy.

    On the latest machine to have this fault, the page % for cyan are as follows; PCU 48%, Dev unit 50% and dev 100%....I've ordered up a dev unit as I've found in the past that just replacing the dev and drum doesn't solve the problem. I was up there yesterday and cleaned the whole lot. The cleaning unit didn't look over full, but the sponge roller next to the charge roller was rather grunged up with toner.

    Has anyone expirienced anything like this, or am I just the lucky one.....
    Thanks
  • turbojetboy
    Trusted Tech

    250+ Posts
    • Aug 2009
    • 279

    #2
    Yep definately seeing this under the same loads. Many fail within 6k! No option but to replace pcu and dev and get on with my life. Another Ricoh triumph.

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    • Sashko
      Trusted Tech

      100+ Posts
      • Oct 2009
      • 110

      #3
      I have same problem with Cyan PCU on MPC4500.
      Maximum amount of printouts for new PCU is 5000...
      Why cyan? Corporate colour is green.

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      • CableGuy
        Impulse Drive Engineer

        250+ Posts
        • Oct 2008
        • 417

        #4
        I agree the colour mix has something to do with it, mostly happens on units that produce colours that have large areas that require cyan, anything else seems to be ok....go figure....?

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