OKI C942 Envelope Printer - Consumables end of life

[jwheeler]

When the fuser reaches 150k impressions, it forces us to replace it. Since they are ~$500 each, we want to push past the 150k impressions until we are unhappy with the output quality. We are mostly just printing a small logo and return address in the upper left corner, so quality is not a huge issue. Has anyone had success over-riding this feature? Same question for other consumables like the drums.

 

[Biggs]

That's unfortunate, the 900 model never forced a replacements. Maybe in the admin settings you can change a part life, or perhaps re-set the maintenance cycle?

 

[jwheeler]

That's unfortunate, the 900 model never forced a replacements. Maybe in the admin settings you can change a part life, or perhaps re-set the maintenance cycle?

That’s what I’m wanting to do, but I can’t find the setting within the admin login. I called the OKI service line but they said it couldn’t be changed. But I don’t feel like the guy really made much effort to look into it.

 

[FFR428]

I'll be watching this one. We have a new C931. Has had a few startup issues but think those are resolved. I know a pretty good tech guy. His shop has a few older OKI's. I'll see what he has to say and report back.

 

[OkiTech]

Guys, the reason why OKI service line left you with impression that they did not spend too much effort is the same reason why oil companies hiding all any tech that would allow us to drive vehicles without using gas/diesel. what did you expect? They do want you to buy that Fuser/Drum/Belt every so often. In any case, jokes aside, odds of you being able to reset counts via admin (even service) menu are very slim. I did not get a chance to dig deep in to C931 line but in previous generation ProColor 900/9xx you could not do that from any menu either. In ProColor 900DP series it is a tiny fuse that shortcircuits sertain pins on the connector, resets the count and burns/blows at the same time that theoretically could have been replaced, easy in Drums/Belt, not so easy in fuser but doable. Anyway, if you want to send me your old fuser, I can take it apart and see what method of resetting the count OKI had implemented in it, may be we can trick it, would be interesting.

 

[OkiTech]

That's unfortunate, the 900 model never forced a replacements. Maybe in the admin settings you can change a part life, or perhaps re-set the maintenance cycle?

really? what is the full model of the 900 series that's never called for replacements?

 

[Biggs]

It's been quite a few years, but i believe it was called the Okie Data 900 , or 900 Data perhaps..
It did have other issues - particularly overtoning magenta in the winter, or low humidity environments..

...always magenta..

...always.

 

[Reckless]

It took us many tries but we were able to trick the OKI C911 toners into using aftermarket toner. Needed special chips for C911 specific. Saved us alot of money! Stupid toners were way too expensive. I have to change a fuser coming up so I will see if they make chips for it.