Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

[Guest]

Yellow color missing partial, rest of the colors and black are ok.

Solution:

Remove lsu cover, one screw.

Remove the right lsu, one screw. Be careful not to brake flat cable.
Remove flat cable, one connector.
Put it all together.

Yellow is back.

[Zeldaman]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Hi there!
Yes Peter there is a RTB from Ricoh about this issue. One week ago i was on a Metis/Griffin-workshop, and they having problems with the yellow ph. There are machines, you have to do this proceure every 2 weeks! Until now there is no solution for this. Also hard problems with white lines, coming fro particels in the devbox. Solution ??? I had this several times: Open the devbox, put out the developer, take a sieve, put out the crap refill the developer, done.
Greetings...

[joshuadenmark]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Yes, have the developer lines too :-)

When I had the missing color (yellow) I first change the PCDU then Transfer unit and last the Transfer lift motor... 3.5 Hours of pulling apart and putting together OMG

[slot]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

had the yellow problem the other day odd how you cant see anything wrong with the laser i havent had this on the mpc3003 range yet
but will keep an eye out. on the mpc305 i had to replace the yellow toner coil today took best part of 5 hrs boy i hate small copiers

[Sweden_GBG]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

had the yellow problem the other day odd how you cant see anything wrong with the laser i havent had this on the mpc3003 range yet
but will keep an eye out. on the mpc305 i had to replace the yellow toner coil today took best part of 5 hrs boy i hate small copiers

Please tell us if it helped more than 2 week with new coil, we got the same problem with the machine, changed the laster and calibrate the colors, but 2 weeks later they call us again same problem =/

[slot]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

the yellow toner coil had to be replaced due to the copier calling for toner but when the engineer got there fault had cleared this happened 3 times so in the end we changed the coil on the yellow it wasn't twisted like on the spc430 but when turned by hand no toner came out it may have just been blocked this isn't to do with the laser problem

[Polarbear]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

had the yellow problem the other day odd how you cant see anything wrong with the laser i havent had this on the mpc3003 range yet
but will keep an eye out. on the mpc305 i had to replace the yellow toner coil today took best part of 5 hrs boy i hate small copiers

Are you kidding me! Has the SPC430 virus moved to the MPC305 now!? Arggg!!!

[Bantams]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Just had this today partial yellow missing first I removed and refitted the RHS laser unit and the fault was still there.

I'm assuming therefor its the one on the left that does the yellow and not the one above the yellow pcu as when I removed and refitted the LHS laser unit it worked only thing I noticed was the flat ribbon clip fell off when I removed it and it was a bitch to refit it.

Spoke to Ricoh UK Helpdesk about the Fault and they Hadn't even heard of it.

[Bantams]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

happened again todayyellow missing partial having so far swapped the laser unit and the ribbon cables brought it back into the workshop now and whilst in transit for 2 hours when it got back it worked :/

I'm thinking its something on the Bicu as Ricoh released anything on this issue yet does anyone know?

[jtd55]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

A fucking hand grenade in it i said in early post this machine was crap i stand by my decision will never
recommend our reps sell this heap again its becoming worse than do i say it the 1224/1232c series !!

[Bantams]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Its not a Bad machine just seems a Bad Batch to me..

I wouldn't put it in the same shit list as the 1224

[jtd55]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Time will tell mate not a good start to its life expect another load of tech bulletins to appear !

[Bantams]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

well we do have about 30 out and only 2 went tits up so far.

[jtd55]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

Fair point weve got about 12 out they just look flimsy had problems with adf feed, jamming, mag unit leaking (150 copies), just my opinion
after seeing a lot of good kit previously from ricoh not sure about new kit !

[Debs1964]

Re: Ricoh MPC305 - Yellow color missing - partial [SOLVED]

i had to replace the yellow toner coil today took best part of 5 hrs boy i hate small copiers

Fun job isn't it!!!
I changed a yellow toner supply motor and toner hopper for intermittently asking for yellow toner (3rd call for this), I managed it in 2 hours. When I took the back cover off (held on by 13 screws ) I was expecting it to look like the MPC300, boy was I wrong, mind you, it took me closer to 4 hours to change the same parts on an MPC300 a few weeks ago