Oki 5200 Attention light is on (orange). Message: K Drum Life. What is this?

Yes,

That message indicates the drum is getting close to the end of life. The printer shows the message a bit before the end of life on the drum so you have time to order one before it goes out completely. You can get them from your office supply dealer or from Amazon.com

This model OKI printer is not an inkjet printer, it is a color laser printer. and uses color toner cartridges.
The printer image drum unit has reached the end of its service life and this drum unit needs to be replaced.

I suggest you Google the Internet for an OKI image drum unit for your model printer, You will get various suppliers and their prices.
The image drum unit will cost approx. A$200

oki printer c5950 fix new cartridge & drum coming error replace image drum 561:m drum life

Meaning the life of the k drum is near and you need to replaced it soon or later
other message like below need attention



C DRUM LIFE REMAINING nn% M DRUM LIFE REMAINING nn% Y DRUM LIFE REMAINING nn% BELT LIFE REMAINING nn% FUSER LIFE REMAINING nn% K TONER REMAINING nn% C TONER REMAINING nn% M TONER REMAINING nn% Y TONER REMAINING nn%

When replacing drums you have to have the printer off first, so the drums will reset. The best way to do this is to contact Rich @ www.summitechnologies.com; [email protected] you can get the fuses cheap, and you will have to take apart the drums and replace the fuse, expect an hour or two to do this.

A drum can print only a limited number of pages before failure - your drum has reached that number and must be replaced.

The figure after the K drum Life tells you how much life there is left on the BLACK (K) drum. C indicates Cyan, M indicates Magenta and Y indicates Yellow.

Go to the USAGE MENU and look at the K DRUM LIFE setting. This will be a 2 digit percentage value. As you have just seen the message appear this will mean that the drum life remaining is ....whatever the 2 digit value displays.

The life expectancy of a drum is approximately 15,000 pages.

Check to make sure that the sensors are clean and play around with the lock arms. Reset the machine and also download the utility from the oki service website to get exact error message. http://www.okic3400.co.uk/library/downloads/utilities/c3300c3400smv1115.exe

hi!!!
try to check the drum first!!!
clean it with the dry tissue?
there a lifespan of the drum
i have the same problem with that.
my drum capacity is only 30,000 copies
so then i replaced it! and works fine now

so try to replaced the drum it might on it capacity
or clean it

try to email me [email protected]

Drum life for C5400 is roughly 15000 pages