Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

[marklk]

i have a problem with the black printing gray, we just replaced the black pcu a few weeks ago, it was fine now its printing light black again, is there a way to manually force toner to print 100% black again?

[Zaxxon]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Broken sub-hopper or toner supply motor.

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Broken sub-hopper or toner supply motor.

Thanks for the reply, how can i tell which is the problem, when i open the right side the cylinders are all spinning, not sure where the sub-hopper is? Is there a way to manually force the black drum to take toner?

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Lift the top cover. Cheat the switch with something small and heavy. Try and run the bottle motor in output mode. If it doesn't turn, the hopper auger is broken, the motor has failed or the IOB has failed.

[Iowatech]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Are you using Ricoh toner? Sometimes non OEM toner will work at first, and then unexpectedly start doing stupid and wrong things later.
Something to think about.

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Are you using Ricoh toner? Sometimes non OEM toner will work at first, and then unexpectedly start doing stupid and wrong things later.
Something to think about.

Thanks for the reply, the last toner set we bought was off ebay, and i believe were refills, the black shows almost empty when its actually full, probably the computer chip needs to be changed

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Lift the top cover. Cheat the switch with something small and heavy. Try and run the bottle motor in output mode. If it doesn't turn, the hopper auger is broken, the motor has failed or the IOB has failed.

thanks for the reply, how do i run the bottle motor in output mode?

[tonnerboy]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Check the spring in the toner supply tube

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[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

i did get it to start printing darker black by turning the bottle by hand , is it very hard to get to hopper auger or motor?

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Yes, it's a ball ache. I wouldn't recommend trying it yourself as you have to tear the living shit out of the machine. If you need this fault properly sorting with correct OEM parts, call a tech.

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

thanks for all the help, im seeing an error code SC367, any ideas how to fix it and whats causing it?

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

The machine has noticed the toner concentration in the developer is too low. Now is the time to call a tech.

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

The machine has noticed the toner concentration in the developer is too low. Now is the time to call a tech.

sounds like it, ive also seen SC442, not sure what that is

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Transfer belt contact mechanism error I think.

[marklk]

Re: Ricoh Aficio SP C410 DN Manual force toner

Thanks for replys, is there a way in service mode to shut the SC error messages off?