Konica Minolta 2300DL Laser Toner Out of Toner - Make Cartridge Work Longer

The Konica/Minolta 2300 DL Color Laser Printer uses a mechanical system to determine when a cartridge is out of toner. There is no actual sensor to sense whether additional toner is in the cartridge. In fact, eventhough the mechanical system may report an out of toner cartidge, there may still be considerable toner remaining in the cartridge. The cartridges can often print for a much longer period, sometimes hundreds of extra pages.

There are two ways to continue printing:

• Setting the menus to allow continued printing after it reports a toner empty
• Mechanically resetting the toner cartridge

there is a way to reset the toner cartridge essentially fooling the printer into thinking it has a brand new cartridge. It has a mechanical linkage which will display a small shiny surface when deemed empty by a SW gas meter. (number of dots printed) To reset this linkage it is necessary to remove 3 phillips screws on the end of the toner cartridge which faces the back of the printer. Don't touch the rubber roller or you will get toner all over yourself and possibly contaminate the roller. If touched use rubbing alcohol on a swab to clean off the oil spot. Then on the bottom of the cartridge there is a small black phillips screw going through a copper contact. remove the screw. Lift the copper contact slichtly and pull the plastic end cap off the toner cartridge. remove and reinsert the black plastic interlock device (slides on a plastic rail) such that the sliver surface is fully retracted. replace the end cap, guiding the copper strap in place. Reinsert the 4 screws. Reinsert the used cartridge and keep on printing! Should save you about 20% on the needless replacement of perfectly good toner cartridges. I expect you could refil the cartridge as well if you wanted. Looks like there is a plug under the color coded handle in the front of the cartridge. Be sure to reset the latch as described also.

Searches:

• "toner empty" 2300DL

Complete model number:

• MC2300DL

Resources:

• www.laserquipt.com/support/idx/60/110/article/Printing-After-Toner-Cartridge-is-Reported-as-Empty-on-the-Magicolor-2300-Series.html
• www.resellerratings.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112255

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