Varioprint 110 Canon/Océ Drum

[RodrigoRocha]

Hello inky friends!

We've had an recent issue with the Drum from our Canon VP110 and considered interesting to share with you all.

Our VP has now 32 mio. A4 counter, and it's its 4th Drum that we are changing. This time, our drum has endured only 3mio prints, and started marking our prints with almost 1mio counter.

We are really concerned with this issue, because as some of you may know, this drum should yelld for 8mio, and it's an expensive part. We had no incident, no paper jam on that part or neither other parts going inside the machine - even the technician from Canon reporter as "normal usage".

Had anyone here had any similar issue with those Drums? I've already started a complaint with our supplier, but woud like to get some experience with you.

Thanks!

 

[namelessentity]

If you use poor quality paper or run a lot of NCR it can significantly reduce the life of the OPC. We have a 6320 that uses the same tech, but you can manually clean it. Are you not on contract for parts?

 

[RodrigoRocha]

We run only the same paper since the first drum, wouldn't point to paper quality at this issue.
Unfortunatly the dealer of our state did only a maintanance contract, for service, not parts nor toner.
They only accepted contract for parts if we bought a second one, so it would "balance" the printing costs.

 

[Sertech]

Hello inky friends!

We've had an recent issue with the Drum from our Canon VP110 and considered interesting to share with you all.

Our VP has now 32 mio. A4 counter, and it's its 4th Drum that we are changing. This time, our drum has endured only 3mio prints, and started marking our prints with almost 1mio counter.

We are really concerned with this issue, because as some of you may know, this drum should yelld for 8mio, and it's an expensive part. We had no incident, no paper jam on that part or neither other parts going inside the machine - even the technician from Canon reporter as "normal usage".

Had anyone here had any similar issue with those Drums? I've already started a complaint with our supplier, but woud like to get some experience with you.

Thanks!

What exactly are the marks they are replacing the drum for? I've had one of those drums last 32 million prints. If it's just spots, and doing the drum clean under maintenance doesn't work, they can be cleaned with brasso

 

[Yes U Can]

If you use poor quality paper or run a lot of NCR it can significantly reduce the life of the OPC. We have a 6320 that uses the same tech, but you can manually clean it. Are you not on contract for parts?

Sorry, the tech of VP110 and VP6320 is not the same as VP110 uses DirectPress technology.

 

[namelessentity]

Sorry, the tech of VP110 and VP6320 is not the same as VP110 uses DirectPress technology.

It's essentially the exact same tech though. No heated fusers and the same downsides. You're technically correct though.

 

[Sertech]

It's essentially the exact same tech though. No heated fusers and the same downsides. You're technically correct though.

Only the same in that it uses ttf belts. The DP has a metal drum, uses no charge, nor optical discharge of a photo conductor. It's all magnetism. It makes a complete blackout, then turns off channels and pulls toner back off using a magnet. No glue rollers like the 6000 series, that's why glue is more of a problem. The drum has a surface that can be cleaned using brasso. Replacing a drum for spots is almost unheard of. Only time I've replaced them is due to the electronics in the unit failing and once for a line repeated cleanings had worn in