Re: KIP info re-post

Art Post (Guest)

Kips are also notorious for making a lot of annoying noise after a few thousand linear feet of wear hit the machine. Ikon Southeast sold Kips from 2000-2002. Of the 30 or so digital Kips (mainly 2900's,2050 series, and 4000 series plotters) that I placed in the Athens, GA and Charlotte, NC areas, most of them had this problem. My service techs in the Charlotte area actually coined the phrase "KipSqueaks".

Instead of repurposing all of the toner, much of it seems to find its way to other areas of the machine...

5/11/058:34 AM

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Art Post (Guest)

Some things you will find about mono toner that you can sell against the KIP.

1. If you have large solids, such as copying or printing an aerial survey map, you will get banding. That is because the toner in coming from a magnetic roller and the roller can not be perfectly round, so the roller is closer at times to the paper and get light-dark bands.

2. Developer works like a brush and toner the paint. With mono toner you get a dirtier system, like spray painting. Dusty inside of machine from toner leads to dirty corona wires and more service.

3. You can reclaim either mono or dual toner. But if you reclaim the toner you get paper dust in the toner and lose copy quality down the line. The excess toner comes from the toner cleaned off the drum, does not have anything to do with mono or dual toner. Ricoh has had copiers that reclaimed the toner but dropped this for consistent copy quality.

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