Lexmark E234N manual How to know when you need new supplies, Supplies information

How to know when you need new supplies

The following sections describe a couple ways to determine when new supplies are needed.

Checking the toner and photoconductor levels

You can determine approximately how much toner is left in your cartridge and how full the photoconductor kit is by printing out a menu settings page. This helps you decide when you might need to order replacement supplies. For help printing a menu settings page, see “How to print the menu settings and network setup pages” on page 88.

Also, the Toner low light sequence (see page 60) is displayed when the toner cartridge is nearly empty. You can still print for a short time while this sequence is displayed, but print quality begins to decrease as the toner level decreases.

To ensure print quality and to avoid damage to the printer, the printer stops operating after the photoconductor kit has reached a maximum of 40,000 pages. (See “Replace photoconductor kit (printer hard stop)*” on page 103 for the light sequence associated with this stop.) The printer automatically notifies you before the photoconductor reaches this point. To avoid having the printer stop operating, replace the photoconductor kit when you first receive the “Replace photoconductor kit” light sequence.

While the printer may continue to function properly after the photoconductor kit has reached its official end-of-life (approximately 30,000 pages), print quality begins to significantly decrease until the photoconductor stops operating at the maximum of 40,000 pages.

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