[Misc] Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

[thendral]

As the title says, Ricoh aficio 1060 - Very light faded copies and prints

I changed the developer. It printed about 250 copies good after the change. now it is very light and faded copies.

Not sure what could be wrong. Any help here is appreciated.

Thanks
Thendral

[jonhiker]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

Check the Vsg and Vsp. it should be about 3.5-4.0 and .7-1.0 or so. Check the toner recycle unit on top of the toner supply unit(called the toner separation case), the small mylars in their break off. it may also be a bad TD sensor.

[Counsel]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

Was is light or faded prior to changing the developer?
I would check first that the dev unit is pushed in and to the left all the way easy to not get that set in all the way. when you did the dev change did you clean the mag roller you can rotate the mag roller and make sure its getting full coverage.

Also just to make sure but did you do the sp 2801 to initialze it?

[thendral]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

Thanks a lot jonhiker and Counsel for the fast response.

I will check the vsg & vsp tomorrow and see if that fixes the issue.

Was is light or faded prior to changing the developer?
Yes it was bad, but not as bad as this.

When I changed the developer I cleaned the mag roller too (didn't use the blower brush, but cleaned with clean cloth make sure there is no old developer there)
I did make sure the dev unit is properly seated I also initialize the TD Sensor (SP2801).
Not sure what else could be an issue.. I will check the vsg & vsp tomorrow.

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

When you're running the machine, cheat the front door and see if the toner bottle turns. Could be the toner add clutch has packed up, I've had a few go on the 1060 recently. It will cause pale copies because the piezo sensor in the toner hopper will still detect toner so won't command the bottle to turn, but the auger isn't moving, pushing toner into the dev unit.

[thendral]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

changing the vsg & vsp did not do any good.

I checked as TonerMunkeh mentioned, yes indeed the toner bottle is not turning. Thanks a lot TonerMunkeh.

Since I did not had enough time to open up today, I left it as it is. I will open the toner hopper unit tomorrow and see if everything is fine and update you.

Thanks a lot.

Thendral

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

No worries. Don't bother going for the toner hopper though, they don't really go wrong. The clutch is in the dev unit drive motor assembly in the back of the machine. I don't think you can get it seperately neither, you have to fit the motor assembly as a whole.

[thendral]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

Thanks to everybody jumped in to help me out. After some time, it appears to be bad piezo sensor in the toner hopper. It works intermitently. I guess it needs replacement. I will try to clean and put it back and see if that fixes the problem. But at least I was able to figure out where the problem is. Thank you very much again for your help.

[thendral]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

I changed the piezo sensor. Toner seems to be going into the toner hopper unit.

Yes it did improved a little bit.. but still It is printing and copying with faded prints.

What else could be wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

[Rijoh]

Re: Ricoh Aficio 1060 - very light faded prints

Get a scotch brite pad and scrub the mag rollers clean, then use a business card to clean out the doctor gap and then vacuum up.

Go to SP 2209 (Toner Supply Rate) and change it to default if it isn't already. Rule-of-thumb for this SP is the higher the setting the less toner-washed out.

The lower the setting the more toner and darker, denser copies. If it's too high it will crash your developer in about 300 copies.

Also these machines are now very old and the developer bias bearing that sits in the frame of the copier is prone to rust and disintegrate causing light copies.

[tcs04]