Question about Ricoh Aficio AP410N Laser Printer

Maintenance kit Our office printer is flashing "replace maintenance kit." The last secretary seems to have thrown out or hidden all our manuals and information pertaining to the printer. What is a maintenance kit, and where do I get it?

tcholt Feb 28, 2008

one of my ricoh aficio ap410n printers has been flashing the Replace Maintenance Kit warning for over 3 months and is still printing fine. do i really need to replace it? i was going to wait till it really stopped or caused another problem. what, if any, harm could i be causing?

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Here are the guides that you are looking for: http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.asp?tsn=Ricoh-USA&path=http://support.ricoh.com/bb_v1oi/html/oi/rc2/model/p410a/p410aen.htm

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