How can I reset my Drum Life Counter on my Printer?

The drum may have an electronic counter installed and after so many pages being printed, even though it is still good, it will determine that it is time to replace. You may be able to replace the electronic counter. If not, you will need to replace the drum.

he poor quality in OKI LED color printing might be fallen on one of the following problems:
- Toner is almost running out
- Drum is scratched or its life almost terminated
- Belt is scratched or its life is almost terminated
- Fuser is scratched
- LED Print head is dirty.
Depend on the knowledge and experiences of each person, the solution is solved easily or takes much time or much labor as well as money This is my suggestion that I have learned from my experiences on OKI C3200, C5300, C6100, C330 that I own:
- First, you should have extra printer accessories suchj as toner and drum cartridges (Y,B, C, M) and fuser, belt for reservation. I think you should have them since someday your printer must need them after they reach to their life limitation.
- Test one after one with the good ones. First testwith tonner cartridges. If the test is OK then continue to test drum cartridges. If it is OK then test fuser and so on. Finally if it is OK, then you must look at the LED Printer heads.
Below is the bad print-out:
:After following the steps that we suggest, we found the LED head above the red drum is dirty. Below is the picture after it is clean:

On Oki C3200, there are only 2 terminals on the RH end of the drum -- those are the two you need.
I had trouble getting the wire tucked under the terminals on the drum. What I did that worked was just hook the wires to the spring contacts on the printer frame. Put a piece of black tape over the metal frame just to make sure no short between the frame and the wire. I also found a piece of black tape to retain and keep some tension on the wires worked well.

Analog VOM worked just as advertised -- thanks so much for a quick, easy, no-cost drum reset solution.

Photo attached.

(from Okidata's support site)

After replacing the image drum cartridge, reset the drum counter to keep a correct count of the number of pages printed on the image drum.
1. Turn the printer on while holding the MENU 1/Menu 2 button. USERMNT displays in the control panel window.
2. Press MENU 1/Menu 2 three times. DRUM CNT RESET displays.
3. Press ENTER. The counter will reset and the printer will go ON-LINE.

After replacing the image drum cartridge, reset the drum counter to keep a correct count of the number of pages printed on the image drum.
1. Turn the printer on while holding the MENU 1/Menu 2 button. USERMNT displays in the control panel window.
2. Press MENU 1/Menu 2 three times. DRUM CNT RESET displays.
3. Press ENTER. The counter will reset and the printer will go ON-LINE.

Buy a pack of 10 x .062A (1/16A) pico fuse RS part No 738-3062. Switch off printer. Remove the drum and toner together from the drum slot to be reset. Carefully crimp the legs of the fuse around the contact wires on the right side of the drum slot. Make sure fuse legs are making a good connection to the wires and aren't touching the frame. switch on printer and allow it to detect the absence of the drum. Switch off printer and carefully remove the now blown fuse. Re-install the toner and drum assemnbly. Drum life is now reset. see pic:

You need to insert a 1/16A fuse into the drum and let printer blow it thus resetting the counter. Don't use fuses with the higher rate - they can easily blow your printer instead! Much more expencive that putchasing a new drum. By the way - 20k at continuous printing, meaning print jobs are as big as 100-200 pages each. The less pages per job the sooned drum life ends up.,

Could very well be the sensor window. I suggest looking at the side of the drum on the right side and pushing a q tip into the opening. heres an older model thats sort of similar instructions. http://www.c3400.co.uk/index.asp?menumode=0&content=sensorerror
Also you can check the exact error code here. http://www.okic3400.co.uk/library/downloads/utilities/c3300c3400smv1115.exe

Check your page count, drum life on a C3200 is roughly 15000 pages. This information can be found on the information menu map.

Information Menu Menu Item Default Setting PRINT MENU MAP EXECUTE Prints the MenuMap (menu listing) with current settings shown. Information about your printer is also
shown at the top of each MenuMap page.


Life Expectancy Toner Cartridge
Life expectancy approximately 1,500 pages, assuming about 5% coverage, which means that 5% of the addressable dots in an image are printed with this color of toner. See Toner Cartridge..

Image Drum
Life expectancy approximately 15,000 pages, assuming an average of 3 pages per print job. If the average print job is longer than this, the image drums could last longer, but if the average print job is shorter, then image drums will be used more quickly. See Image Drum.

Transfer Belt
Life expectancy about 50,000 letter-size pages. See Transfer Belt.

Fuser
Life expectancy about 45,000 letter-size pages. See Fuser.

To reset the drum counter on these it can be done by this
link to oki 8w Image Drum Cartridge instructions

http://my.okidata.com/man-8w.NSF/MOCContents/5577D9A2FD2AC576852566C100507580?OpenDocument

or if I explain it, go to printers and faxs on your pc find the oki icon for your printer right click it and propertys.... go to printing preference tab, look in there....

If you are having image problems with new drum, I doubt any reset will help.

Post back any issues or check link below chapter 5
http://my.okidata.com/man-8w.NSF/InsideUsersManual?OpenFrameSet