Used toner bottle near-end detection
- When the level of the used toner inside the bottles accumulates high enough to reach the actuator of the near-full sensor [A], this switches the near-full sensor on, and if it remains on for more than 3 sec., this will trigger the bottle near-full alert.
Used toner bottle full detection
- The full sensor [B] detects when the used toner bottle is full by monitoring the rotation of the used toner transport coil.
- Normally, the used toner bottle sensor switches on/off repeatedly during the rotation of the toner path and bottle transport coils.
- When the used toner bottle becomes full this places a load on the transport coils. If the torque limiter of the drive gear can no longer turn (the signals no longer alternate on/off), and if this condition continues for longer than 3 sec., this signals that the used toner bottle is full.
- As soon as the machine issues the bottle full alert, the machine stops.
- If there is a job in progress it will shut down immediately and an alert will appear on the operation panel.
- After the machine issues the user toner bottle near-full alert, approximately another 290K sheets can be printed (A4 LEF at 6% coverage) until the bottle becomes full.
- The capacity of the used toner bottle is about 1200 K sheets.