Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

[copierpro]

Feel like a dolt but not trained on this one where is the waste toner bottle on this machine for access to empty?

Thanks in advance

[Bantams]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

Its not a bottle as such its under the transfer belt remove belt and you will see 3 screws on the black plastic cover remove those and stick ya vacume in and vac it out. There's also a SP mode for disabling the toner overflow sensor I usually turn them off because they can be too sensitive at times

[copierpro]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

Looking at transfer belt behid left side cover don't see any release for it. I never saw a copier with such a hard to get to waste toner bottle. Heck with it. It just said toner bottle almost full someone else can deal with it.

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Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

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[Iowatech]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

Looking at transfer belt behid left side cover don't see any release for it. I never saw a copier with such a hard to get to waste toner bottle. Heck with it. It just said toner bottle almost full someone else can deal with it.

While it isn't intuitive to someone seeing the machine for the first time, removing the transfer belt assembly is actually pretty easy once you've done it a couple of times. There's a grayish lever on the front of the belt unit near the belt's upper roller that you turn 90 degrees clockwise, then you slide the belt assembly up the flopping assembly (the unit that flops around when you open and close the right hand cover) a bit and the belt assembly will come right out. A little like any of the older Ricoh 35/45 cpm MFPs, if you've ever worked on those.
Just in case you ever run into one of them again.

[Silvertoast]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

easy to get to, but there is also a bulletin for these machines, with repetitive waste full messages. there is an upgrade to the wiring harness

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

Easier way - just switch the waste sensor off. These machines will have emergency calls on them WAY before the waste gets full. Just check it every call.

[Iowatech]

Re: Ricoh MP 5000 waste toner bottle where is it?

While it isn't intuitive to someone seeing the machine for the first time, removing the transfer belt assembly is actually pretty easy once you've done it a couple of times. There's a grayish lever on the front of the belt unit near the belt's upper roller that you turn 90 degrees clockwise, then you slide the belt assembly up the flopping assembly (the unit that flops around when you open and close the right hand cover) a bit and the belt assembly will come right out. A little like any of the older Ricoh 35/45 cpm MFPs, if you've ever worked on those.
Just in case you ever run into one of them again.

Crap, bad data, sorry. The lever is black and almost halfway between the upper and lower rollers on the transfer belt assembly.