Phaser 860 Maintenance Kit Longevity 5

[MyriadMayham]

My Phaser 860 is coming to the end of it's Extended Maintenance Kit at around 20,000 prints... thats only HALF of the life expectancy - until I read the 'fine print': Either kit has an installed life of 15 months. Does anyone know why? Is there any actual problem with a Maintenance Kit (that is clocked to run up to 40,000 prints) running for longer than 15 months? Is there any way to reset the counter so that it will run longer?

If there is actually some valid reason for the Maintenance Kit to expire after 15 months, ok... but I dropped $300.00 on this baby, and I'm a little choked that I'm not going to get my 40,000 prints!

 

[Dacurve]

First of all, the kits can have a consumption rate of low, med & high on this machine, depending on the coverage. The 45.000 pages is based on the low consumption rate.

15 months limitation is there because the oil in the roller won't last for years and years. This is just to prevent customers inserting a 4 year old maintenance kit and calling xerox because they have print quality issues. The machine will still let you print, despite of the message, but print quality is not guarenteed with expired kits.

Another problem is that when the machine was first introduced, the extended maintenance kit had a life of 30.000. they later changed the kits to 45.000, but did not update the firmware. So if the machine says you printed 20.000 pages with your kit, you have to multiply that with 1,5 to get the right amount of pages printed.

 

[raygarcia]

Thanks for your insight... I just bought a xerox 860dp and it was in mint condition. The only thing that when I ran the diagnostic it showed the maintaince kit shows 84%... Now I have to get a kit???...

 

[Dacurve]

Raygarcia, does the machine ask you to replace the kit?? Or does it say it is "expired".. (which means you can keep on printing, but you reached the 15 month limitation).

 

[ivessm]

I also have an 860 that is showing that I need to replace the Maintenance Kit in 22 days. The Usage Profile shows:

Maint Kit Install Date: Thu Jan 16 09:47:50 2003
Maint Kit Remaingin (%) 67
MKIC 9933

So I guess I'll see what happens in 22 days. Whether I can still print and get nagged by the front panel or it goes belly up until I feed it a new Maintenance Kit.

Anyone know anything about the little chip that is part of the maintenance kit in the little plastic case that gets changed each time you change the maintenance kit?? I suspect this little chip keeps track of the days and copy count.

Anyway to send this little chip back to school and brainwash it??

stew

 

[printermedixuk]

I have a solution, adrian//at//printermedix//dot//co//dot//uk

 

[99Engineer]

I have a way to reset the maint kits by using an I2c chip programmer. I have done it successfully without any problem I think I see a business opportunity here . if anyone has tech knowhow, and a Javelin stamp with breadboard you can copy a new cartridge's data onto your old one, then just toss the roller when the print quality goes south and keep resetting the chips..