Fuser roll life

Wondering what the life expectancy is on the heat roll running 310gsm smooth and linen. Running same size of each stock and having RDS edge gloss differential after about 36k on the heat roll.
Had the customer disable RDS and going to see how long it will last.

 

i run 2-5000 sheets weekly of 14pt 1side coated cover, from september through january. I saw gloss issues(still acceptable) after week 7. eventually leading to a tear in the fuser the last week. I THINK my count was 70k TOTAL on it when it died. interested about the RDS...would they just change rollers between different stock sizes? that was my eventual solution on the Nexpress way back when. switching between 11.5 and 14 wide I had good results.

 

Sorry Milo, didn't catch it was 310 linen! thats a fuser-eater for sure. I THINK my linen sheets I mentioned were 200 something.

Always nice chattin with another xerox guy on the phone though...

to clarify, its NON linen -when I run that 14pt C1s every week, I have a special fuser for it. Actually a "bad one" But I never turned RDS off. The job is high res photos on gloss side, and only text on the uncoated side. I started that, because it would run fine...but then any print after was garbage after 2 weeks. lol. I JUST killed that special fuser after 2 years of 2000-5000 a week prints during the fall. my best guesstimate is 70k. plus some other odds/ends jobs...maybe 90? not good...but still better than just pitching it after a few weeks...

I actually have a pile of old fusers that I never found out what to do with, and pulled out to get a rush job done. -being new untrained guy....sometimes Ill yank one of those back out and reuse it for low coverage.

 

Update:
installed new roll, disabled RDS and as it stands today, running the same size stock, we have 80k on the roll and still looking good.

 

Disabling RDS works great on coated stock. If you start running un coated re enable it as it will eat a roll in approx 10K

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Mark

 

very cool.... Id never thought of it...

 

Update on fuser roll life:

Running 310 linen coated both sides. RDS turned off to extend fuser life.
Count before disabling RDS: 36K
Count after disabling RDS: 150K ( had to replace due to a scuff in the print fuse area, not related to actual print run)
The paper was the exact same size all the time. Disabling the RDS will leave grooves in the fuser roll but should run fine if running the same exact size paper all the time.
Unless you use a roll for each size paper you run.