Canon V900 frequently pausing while "adjustment" is being made

[Snowhugger]

Canon V900 Printing jobs are frequently pausing while "adjustment" is being made, the fuser temperature I think. This is now happening more frequently than I remember.

I printed a black & white book on 50# offset, 107 sheets per book this weekend. It is a reprint job we have done many times. The printer is pausing approximately 4 times per book, every 25 - 30 sheets to "adjust".

I have fixed this issue in the past by changing the gsm (paper weight) of the paper description and the performance usually improves. I made several changes to the gsm of the paper description but the printer still pauses to adjust for a minute or more every 25 sheets or so.

We had a Canon tech in here to look at it and I ran one of these books to show him what I'm seeing. It acted just as I described above. He told me the machine is running normally, it is pausing to cool down etc. To maintain proper temp etc. The tech said I should pursue this issue with phone support from Canon USA, so I am doing that but just thought I'd ask here too.

Does anyone out there have a Canon ImagePress that is pausing to adjust too often? Is playing around with gsm settings a solution that makes sense to you?

Thank You!

 

[realaqu]

Canon V900 Printing jobs are frequently pausing while "adjustment" is being made, the fuser temperature I think. This is now happening more frequently than I remember.

I printed a black & white book on 50# offset, 107 sheets per book this weekend. It is a reprint job we have done many times. The printer is pausing approximately 4 times per book, every 25 - 30 sheets to "adjust".

I have fixed this issue in the past by changing the gsm (paper weight) of the paper description and the performance usually improves. I made several changes to the gsm of the paper description but the printer still pauses to adjust for a minute or more every 25 sheets or so.

We had a Canon tech in here to look at it and I ran one of these books to show him what I'm seeing. It acted just as I described above. He told me the machine is running normally, it is pausing to cool down etc. To maintain proper temp etc. The tech said I should pursue this issue with phone support from Canon USA, so I am doing that but just thought I'd ask here too.

Does anyone out there have a Canon ImagePress that is pausing to adjust too often? Is playing around with gsm settings a solution that makes sense to you?

Thank You!

if the tech said is true, put a fan behind the machine to help cool down the fuser to see if any improvements

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Maybe the heating element/device for the fuser is going bad. Or maybe the controller for such is going bad.

 

[namelessentity]

Our old Imagepress C750 does this too. I think it's because it's a light production machine. It constantly stops for "adjusting". The higher end models have better fusing units and they maintain their temperatures better.

 

[bill kahny]

External environment affects this is the room colder that in the summer maybe the fuser is coming back up to temp? I believe all lasers do this to some extent and just lowering the gsm isn't always the answer match the paper to the proper settings. I think that line of copiers has an advanced setting that can be extended for less frequent adjustments but its been awhile since I've tried or asked. I have a custom paper saved for my 750 to do this for cheap down and dirty #10 env. use it for black corner copy never have had an issue.

 

[TJPrinter]

It's been years since I had the C810 here, but there was a service setting to extend this "adjusting" from the every 30 sheets to a higher page count. They told me it could affect quality but I never did see that happen. Not sure if it will work on the V900 but worth asking.

 

[Snowhugger]

Thank you for the responses! I will look into your suggestions and report back!

 

[bcr]

are you certain it is all BW and there's not a sheet with a colour element sneaking in at p.25? don't know how it is on Canons but on our Ricoh C5310s the colour fusers will switch off after X amount of black only pages, and switching back on/off again entails a delay.