Toshiba 3015AC color developer

[skibum]

What are the options for Toshiba eStudio 3015AC Color Developer replacement. I find it strange that it is so expensive for color developer for this machine? Color drums and Black developer kit with black drum isn't bad for price.

I'm a Canon and Kyocera specialist and have never seen color developer cost so much.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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... no way around it. Toshiba CMY Developer is very expensive. K Developer is about average.

I have complained about it for years.

On the flip side, the Developer usually lasts longer than most five year leases and often longer than factory spec.

Never buy a used eStudio Colour copier with a high colour meter click.

[blackcat4866]

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Cost-wise the best deal is to buy it as part of a color maintenance kit. And yes, it's still expensive. =^..^=

[aficio63]

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Will a process unit for a 3015A work in a 5015A?

[mojorolla]

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Will a process unit for a 3015A work in a 5015A?

If you swap the lid and part #18 of the drive gears, yes it can work. However, the 50 ppm have metal bearings while the 30 ppm unit has plastic bearings. Not sure how long the plastic bearings will last on a 50 ppm machine.

[aficio63]

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Thank you for the info.

[aficio63]

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Gear #18 is on the developer drive assy....not the developer itself i take it.

[blackcat4866]

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If you swap the lid and part #18 of the drive gears, yes it can work. However, the 50 ppm have metal bearings while the 30 ppm unit has plastic bearings. Not sure how long the plastic bearings will last on a 50 ppm machine.

If the Weisshorn Series is a proper test, the answer is no. When we rebuilt developing units on that series eS2555-5055, we rebuilt them to the higher standard: all real ball-bearings, and gears with bearing inserts. =^..^=

[mojorolla]

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Gear #18 is on the developer drive assy....not the developer itself i take it.

Correct

[Copy of a Copy]

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I have put k developer in the color units. Toshiba will say you can't. The color will obviously be off at first but if you just run 100 full color copy's and consume the k toner that comes premixed with the developer, it eventually will dump enough new color toner in the unit to where it looks normal. I've done this many times and it hasn't caused any issues. I've even went as for to jump series. One time I threw in some toner from a 2440ac into a 4515ac and had no issue. No auto toner sensor issues, no dirty copies. I'll run auto toner sensor calibration and recalibrate image quality charts. Idk sometimes I think they just say you can't do certain things as to make more money.

[Jasper Bürotechnik]

Re: Toshiba 3015AC color developer

What are the options for Toshiba eStudio 3015AC Color Developer replacement. I find it strange that it is so expensive for color developer for this machine? Color drums and Black developer kit with black drum isn't bad for price.

I'm a Canon and Kyocera specialist and have never seen color developer cost so much.

Hello, I still have a lot of Toshiba Developer in stock, I can offer it to you for half the original EU price.

[Copy of a Copy]

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I added developer, not toner from previous series of mfp's. My mistake. Also, I credit the customer for toner consumed or bring with semi full toners and consume ours instead of the customers.

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: Toshiba 3015AC color developer

I added developer, not toner from previous series of mfp's. My mistake. Also, I credit the customer for toner consumed or bring with semi full toners and consume ours instead of the customers.

I do not find it hard to believe that Developer from a e3005AC will work in a e3015AC.

What I am interested in for you to reclarify, is that in a previous post you said you put black developer, in a spent colour developer hopper, ran 100 full colour prints and evenutally the colour image colour quality became acceptable?

I know the high end Toshiba colour 65 cpm+copiers have developer in the colour toner but I am sure there is no developer in the colour toner for the 25-45 cpm models.

[Copy of a Copy]

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You are correct. On a console higher speed mfp such as a 7516ac, 7506ac Toshiba, color does come premixed in toner, however sometimes the LED discharge gets blocked, and it pulls so much dev that you have to add some from a dev kit. I have not tried adding the toner that comes with developer mixed in with it directly on the mag roller on a higher end mfp. I have added K developer from a 2040ac to a 7516ac and burned the excess k toner and for that jump it looks normal.

[Copy of a Copy]

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BTW, this isn't something I'd do on a new install simply as I have not tested it. However, if you need to limp a mfp along for a few years this seems to work on the 20 mfp's I've tested it in.