Thread: how often do you change your docucolor 250 developer

Depends on your print volumes I suppose. On our DC250 we find the black and magenta get changed about every six months, whilst the cyan and yellow about every 12 months. We do a lot of full coverage work so that may make a difference.

Thank you very much for the reply easiprint.

If I could ask, what's your typical volume of color prints every 6 months?

Not sure how much quality I should be demanding or how far off I should allow my calibration curves to get before requesting a developer change.

We average about 30,000 a month so 6 months would be between 150,000 and 200,000 colour clicks

Xerox state 1.5m (Developer Motor on-time converted to PV), then replace developer and developer housing kit, if a techie can convert this to SRA3 sheets then you've got the "Xerox" quoted option. I would say every 200,000 sra3's at cost of £240 for developer set and only change the developer housings if needed is a good option to keep your machine running tip top on quality and colour, at the end of the day, the colour drums are the important factor, rubbish drums, rubbish print.