I started getting grinding noise from the first cyan imaging unit a couple of months ago. Bought a new one and replaced it. Noise went away. Two months later (and less than 100 prints later) its back. So I took all the assemblies out. Cleaned everything out. Cleaned the contacts. Put everything back in. And now I have two imaging units grinding. Cyan and Magenta.
I still had the old one lying around so I opened it. What a horrible design!!! There are like 6 ~ 7 nylon gears on one side and a conveyer belt like design also connected by 3 more gears on the other side to move access tonor back into the toner cartridge. All of this assembly has so much friction that I can't see how it can last very long.
So my question is how many people have these imaging units go bad on them specially with grinding noise coming from inside the imaging unit?
Trying to figure out if its time to dump this white elephant. Its running cost is starting to go in thousands per year and we probably get maybe less than a few hundred prints from it in one month.
I still had the old one lying around so I opened it. What a horrible design!!! There are like 6 ~ 7 nylon gears on one side and a conveyer belt like design also connected by 3 more gears on the other side to move access tonor back into the toner cartridge. All of this assembly has so much friction that I can't see how it can last very long.
So my question is how many people have these imaging units go bad on them specially with grinding noise coming from inside the imaging unit?
Trying to figure out if its time to dump this white elephant. Its running cost is starting to go in thousands per year and we probably get maybe less than a few hundred prints from it in one month.
