Hello guys and gals, I have a question and/or 2 problems.
Please excuse my ignorance, I'm obviously not a copy tech but I've written everything down to the best of my ability.
I purchased a RP 3105 UI about a year ago and have done next to nothing
with it.
I printed some one color fliers (it came with a black drum) and then I
ordered 3 more drums off the internet.
The black drum I have worked fine.
I got my new drums and tried them out.
they all pretty much did this:
Insert drum> start making prints > make about 5-10 prints > disengage from
the machine
I checked, and the drums all have the little ridge on the end of them that
some RP drums don't have, so theoretically it should work.
The person I bought the drums from hypothesized that they are running at a
different speed than the machine (?) and so they want to disengage.
There was one drum that basically wouldn't stay in for a whole print, but
most of them would at least make one copy before popping out and the Riso
telling me to insert a print cylinder.
so that's one problem.
THE OTHER, more immediate problem is that while I was f*cking around with
all these drums, my machine kept acting weird and not wanting to release
the drums it was telling me to insert in the first place.
So, (stupidly) I did a "cool trick" on myself and turned the machine off and on again, and
the cylinder released. I did this a second time while trying to figure it
all out, and now when I turn on the machine, it's doing this thing where it:
(a) tells me to insert a drum, and
(b) I CAN'T insert a drum, because none of them will go all the way into
the machine anymore.
The closest thing I can figure out is that there's a hole in the back where
the main cylinder shaft goes in and engages, and there's a wire/bar that
pops down and locks the shaft into place, and it's now just permanently
down and the shaft can't go in? I'm not sure. I've tried shoving them in
but not crazy hard so as not to break anything (no dice), and I've tried
pushing the bar in with a screwdriver. When I do that, the bar whirs back
for a second and then locks back into place.
NEEDLESS TO SAY I would appreciate any help anyone had to offer.
I really need to get printing!
Thanks.
Please excuse my ignorance, I'm obviously not a copy tech but I've written everything down to the best of my ability.
I purchased a RP 3105 UI about a year ago and have done next to nothing
with it.
I printed some one color fliers (it came with a black drum) and then I
ordered 3 more drums off the internet.
The black drum I have worked fine.
I got my new drums and tried them out.
they all pretty much did this:
Insert drum> start making prints > make about 5-10 prints > disengage from
the machine
I checked, and the drums all have the little ridge on the end of them that
some RP drums don't have, so theoretically it should work.
The person I bought the drums from hypothesized that they are running at a
different speed than the machine (?) and so they want to disengage.
There was one drum that basically wouldn't stay in for a whole print, but
most of them would at least make one copy before popping out and the Riso
telling me to insert a print cylinder.
so that's one problem.
THE OTHER, more immediate problem is that while I was f*cking around with
all these drums, my machine kept acting weird and not wanting to release
the drums it was telling me to insert in the first place.
So, (stupidly) I did a "cool trick" on myself and turned the machine off and on again, and
the cylinder released. I did this a second time while trying to figure it
all out, and now when I turn on the machine, it's doing this thing where it:
(a) tells me to insert a drum, and
(b) I CAN'T insert a drum, because none of them will go all the way into
the machine anymore.
The closest thing I can figure out is that there's a hole in the back where
the main cylinder shaft goes in and engages, and there's a wire/bar that
pops down and locks the shaft into place, and it's now just permanently
down and the shaft can't go in? I'm not sure. I've tried shoving them in
but not crazy hard so as not to break anything (no dice), and I've tried
pushing the bar in with a screwdriver. When I do that, the bar whirs back
for a second and then locks back into place.
NEEDLESS TO SAY I would appreciate any help anyone had to offer.
I really need to get printing!
Thanks.
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