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Replacing the toner cartridges on the Ricoh SP C811dn

2010-09-14T13:28:00.000-07:00

Open the cover board on the right side of the printer.

Take out the used cartridge.

Take the new cartridge out of the box and shake it firmly from 5 to 6 times.

Put the new cartridge into the printer

Why Most People Pay Double for Laser Toner Cartridges

2010-08-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

If you own a laser printer, you already know the most expensive part of ownership is purchasing laser toner cartridges. A normal laser printer has a life expectancy of five years. However, many laser printers will last longer than five years. Did you know that over that five-year period, most people pay seven times as much for toner cartridges as they did for their printer? If your printer lasts longer than five years, you will pay even more. Many major printer manufacturers use a marketing model similar to TiVo and Gillette razors. The basic idea is this¡¬ they sell you the printer at or near cost. Once you've purchased their printer, you will buy their printer supplies. Hence, the huge mark up on the price of the toner cartridges. In many cases, the cost of a brand name cartridge is more than twice what it should be. The companies then spend a lot of money trying to convince you that you must buy their toner cartridges or you can expect to have real problems. This simply isn't true. I have exclusively used compatible toner cartridges for over fifteen years. Here's what I have learned. At first, I was very reluctant to try a compatible toner cartridge. I really didn't understand much about them. A compatible toner cartridge is a new toner cartridge made to the specific OEM specifications of the printer manufacturer. They include the same parts and toner required for your laser printer. However, they do not have the "brand name" on the label. These compatible toner cartridges are guaranteed to be as good as your original OEM cartridge. That means you will get the same quality of print. You will get the same quantity of print. I have saved literally thousands of dollars in cost by using compatible toner cartridges. Over the years, I only had one instance where a compatible toner cartridge did not live up to my high expectations. I called the company and they sent me a new compatible toner cartridge the very next day¡¬ no questions, no hassle. Besides this one instance, I have always had outstanding print quality. I've never been shorted on the number of pages I've printed. When you deal with a reputable online company, you save in many ways. If the major manufacturers made a reasonable profit on their printer sale, there would be no need for such a high mark up on their toner cartridges. So, if you need a new laser toner cartridge and want to cut way back on your printer budget, try a compatible toner cartridge today.

Error code SC542

2010-07-09T14:30:00.000-07:00

SC 542 Basically the machine is telling you that the fuser did not reach its target temperature in a specified amount of time. In normal circumstances this code will apear if the thermistor is not maintained or replace periodically or in abnormal circumstance the heat lamp blew. This is a Service Tech reset code. Once the error is detected, the printer is toast until you manually clear the error from the keypad. Even though the printer is physically fine, it won't come ready until the prior error condition is cleared.

To prevent this:

1. Never start the machine if your office is far below room temperature. The machine.
2. Maintain the termistor

The Fix

Press and hold online + escape, then power on.
Use up and down arrow keys to select SP2
Press Enter
Use up and down arror to locate SP5
Press Enter
Use up and down arrow keys to select 810
Press Enter
Confirm the selection
Power off and on.
The error code is now cleared.

other way

1. Mode(Yellow Button)

2. 107

3. Press STOP Button for 3 second (RED Button)

4. Copy Sp

5. 5810#

6. Excute

7. Power Off

8. Power On

Install a Wireless Card

2010-06-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

Install a Wireless Card in a Ricoh SP C811DN Printer

The Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN business printer has a number of add-on cards that can be purchased for it. One of these is an 802.11b wireless card, which allows wireless laptop computers to send jobs to the printer without the need to be physically connected. Install a wireless card for your Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN to eliminate the need for users to be connected to the printer or print server.
Touch a bare metal object to discharge any built-up static electricity, or wear a wrist grounding strap. Turn off and unplug the printer, then turn the printer around so that you are looking at the metal expansion slot covers on the back.
Remove the two screws securing an expansion slot cover, then remove the cover from the printer. Slide the outer housing for the wireless card into the expansion slot until it is firmly in place, then use the attached screws to secure the housing to the back of the printer. The housing contains a smaller slot for the wireless card to slide into.
Align the antenna attachment for the wireless card so that the textured portion of the antenna faces down and the sticker on the wireless card faces up. Push the antenna onto the wireless card until it snaps into place. Push the wireless card into the slot in the housing until you can feel the connector engage. The card should be oriented so that the label sticker on the wireless card faces right.
Snap the antenna cover over the back of the wireless card. The card is now ready to use.

Ricoh SP c811dn

2010-06-15T08:47:00.000-07:00

The Ricoh SP c811dn is an excellent choice for home or office work. It has 600 x 600 dpi of resolution which is perfect for anything that you want to print and it also has a variety of color and monochrome options. This printer is the fastest in its class with an average speed of 40 pages per minute for color and black. The Ricoh SP c811dn also offers a first page out of 8 seconds for black and 9 seconds for color and you don’t have to wait a lot because its warm-up time is 60 seconds or less. The SP c811dn has a variety connectivity options like 10/100 Base TX Ethernet, USB 2.0, USB host I/F type A, Bluetooth Wireless Interface Type 3245 and many others that will give you and easy connection to your computer. It has a standard memory of 256 MB Ram which is expandable to 512 MB. The standard output paper handling is 500 sheets. With this printer you can use many Media Types like plain, recycled, preprinted, special, color, letterhead, card stock, glossy, coated, labels, OHPs and envelopes. This printer uses black cartridges number 820000, cyan cartridges number 820024, magenta cartridges number 820016 and yellow cartridges number 820008. The average page yield of each cartridge is 17,000 pages for color and 23,000 pages for black. You can buy them on imagetoner.com with excellent prices, a very good shipping time and the best customer service. Today for many people it is of vital importance to have an excellent color printer machine on their homes or their offices, and why not to have one of the best. It is important to understand that in the current market conditions it is essential to save money and at the same time to receive the best quality in anything that is bought, this is the case with this Ricoh SP C811dn printer and the toner supplies that imagetoner.com offers you. You don’t have to be afraid of having a remanufactured cartridge sold as a new one, because imagetoner.com cares about your pocket and also gives you excellent products that will provide you with only the best of your printer, not simply in the Ricoh SP c811dn but also in many other machines that you’ll see in our web page. We also ship any order placed in our web site the same business day, and even offer free shipping by UPS for any product for Ricoh printers.

Error and Status Messages for Ricoh SP C811DN

2010-06-01T15:09:00.000-07:00

This time we explains what the messages that appear on the control panel mean and what to do when a particular message appears

Alert Messages

Cannot Print: Check the file you want to print is a supported file type check for misfeeds and ask your network administrator for help

Connect failed: IEEE802.11b/ Turn power off, check card: Check there is an IEEE802.11b interface board installed. Check that it is a supported board. If it is, check it is installed correctly. Install the correct board properly.

Ethernet Board Error: An error on the Ethernet board is detected. Pull out and then re-install the controller board. If the problem persists, contact your sales or service representative.

Independent – supply toner: A non-supported toner is installed. Remove it, and install toner specified by an authorized dealer

Parallel l/F Error: The printer’s self diagnostic test failed due to a loopback error. Replace the IEEE 1284 board that caused the error.

Printer Font Error: There are problems with the printer’s font file contact your sales or service representative.

The selected job has already been printed or deleted: This message might appear if you print or delete a job from web image monitor. Press Exit an the message screen.

USB has a problem: The printer cannot detect the USB host interface board. It may be incorrectly installed.