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A230/A231/A232

SERVICE MANUAL

000861MIU
RICOH GROUP COMPANIES

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  • Page 1: Service Manual

    A230/A231/A232 SERVICE MANUAL 000861MIU RICOH GROUP COMPANIES...
  • Page 2 A230/A231/A232 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. OVERALL MACHINE INFORMATION ........1-1 1.1 SPECIFICATIONS ..................1-1 1.2 PAPER EXIT TRAY SELECTION............. 1-5 1.3 MACHINE CONFIGURATION ..............1-6 1.3.1 SYSTEM COMPONENTS ............... 1-6 1.3.2 INSTALLABLE OPTION TABLE ............1-8 Copier options ..................1-8 Fax options ..................
  • Page 3 2.8.4 PAPER LIFT MECHANISM............2-52 2.8.5 PAPER END DETECTION............. 2-54 2.8.6 PAPER REGISTRATION............... 2-55 2.8.7 PAPER FEED AND JAM TIMING ..........2-56 2.9 IMAGE TRANSFER AND PAPER SEPARATION ........2-57 2.9.1 OVERVIEW ................... 2-57 2.9.2 BELT DRIVE MECHANISM ............2-58 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 4 3.1.3 MINIMUM SPACE REQUIREMENTS..........3-2 3.1.4 POWER REQUIREMENTS.............. 3-3 3.2 INSTALLATION FLOW CHART..............3-4 3.3 COPIER INSTALLATION................3-5 3.3.1 ACCESSORY CHECK ..............3-5 3.3.2 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE............3-6 3.4 PAPER TRAY UNIT INSTALLATION ............. 3-12 3.4.1 ACCESSORY CHECK ..............3-12 3.4.2 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE............3-13 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 5 4. SERVICE TABLES ..............4-1 4.1 GENERAL CAUTIONS ................4-1 4.1.1 DRUM ....................4-1 4.1.2 TRANSFER BELT UNIT ..............4-2 4.1.3 SCANNER UNIT ................4-2 4.1.4 LASER UNIT..................4-2 4.1.5 CHARGE ROLLER ................4-3 4.1.6 DEVELOPMENT................4-3 4.1.7 FUSING UNIT .................. 4-3 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 6 4.6.2 LUBRICANTS ................4-68 5. PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE....... 5-1 5.1 PM TABLE ....................5-1 6. REPLACEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT........6-1 6.1 SCANNER UNIT..................6-1 6.1.1 EXPOSURE GLASS ................ 6-1 6.1.2 SCANNER EXTERIOR/OPERATION PANEL ......... 6-2 6.1.3 LENS BLOCK/SBU ASSEMBLY............6-3 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 7 6.6.5 LOWER PAPER FEED UNIT............6-35 6.6.6 PAPER END/PAPER HEIGHT/RELAY SENSORS......6-36 6.6.7 REGISTRATION SENSOR ............. 6-37 6.7 FUSING ....................6-39 6.7.1 FUSING UNIT ................. 6-39 6.7.2 HOT ROLLER STRIPPERS AND FUSING LAMP......6-40 6.7.3 THERMISTOR AND THERMOFUSE..........6-41 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 8 7. TROUBLESHOOTING ..............7-1 7.1 SERVICE CALL CONDITIONS..............7-1 7.1.1 SUMMARY ..................7-1 7.1.2 SC CODE DESCRIPTIONS.............. 7-2 7.2 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT DEFECTS..........7-24 7.2.1 SENSORS ..................7-24 7.2.2 SWITCHES..................7-25 7.3 BLOWN FUSE CONDITIONS ..............7-26 7.4 ROM HISTORY ..................7-27 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 9 4.6 PAPER END, TRAY LIFT, AND RELAY SENSOR REPLACEMENT ..................8-18 Paper End Sensor................8-18 Tray Lift Sensor.................. 8-18 Relay Sensor..................8-18 LCT (A683) 1. OVERALL MACHINE INFORMATION ........9-1 1.1 SPECIFICATIONS ..................9-1 1.2 MECHANICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT........... 9-2 1.3 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT ............ 9-3 viii A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 10 1.1 SPECIFICATIONS .................. 10-1 1.2 MECHANICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT..........10-2 1.3 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT ..........10-3 1.4 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT DESCRIPTION ........10-3 2 DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS ............10-4 2.1 BASIC OPERATION................10-4 2.2 PAPER SIZE DETECTION ..............10-5 3 REPLACEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT........10-6 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 11: Table Of Contents

    Entrance Sensor ................11-7 AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER A680 1. OVERALL MACHINE INFORMATION ........12-1 1.1 SPECIFICATIONS .................. 12-1 1.2 MECHANICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT..........12-2 1.3 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT LAYOUT ..........12-3 1.4 ELECTRICAL COMPONENT DESCRIPTION ........12-4 1.5 DRIVE LAYOUT ..................12-6 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 12: Service Tables

    Upper Cover Removal..............12-23 4.2 FEED UNIT REMOVAL AND SEPARATION ROLLER REPLACEMENT ................... 12-24 4.3 FEED BELT REPLACEMENT .............. 12-25 4.4 SENSOR REPLACEMENT..............12-26 4.4.1 ORIGINAL SET, ORIGINAL WIDTH AND REGISTRATION SENSORS ............12-26 Original Set Sensor ................12-26 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 13: Overall Machine Information

    2. DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS ............. 14-6 2.1 BASIC OPERATION................14-6 Larger than A4 lengthwise/LT lengthwise .......... 14-6 Up to A4 lengthwise/LT lengthwise ............ 14-7 2.2 FEED IN AND EXIT MECHANISM ............14-8 Feed-in....................14-8 Inversion and Exit................14-8 3. REPLACEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT........14-9 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 14: Mechanical Component Layout

    2.9 TIMING CHARTS ................. 16-15 2.9.1 NO STAPLE MODE (A4 SIDEWAYS, 3 SHEETS/2SETS)..16-15 2.9.2 STAPLE MODE (A4 SIDEWAYS, 2 SHEETS/2 SETS) ....16-16 3. SERVICE TABLE ..............16-17 3.1 DIP SWITCH TABLE ................16-17 3.2 TEST POINTS ..................16-17 A230/A231/A232 xiii...

  • Page 15: Electrical Component Layout

    2.6 SHIFT TRAY UP/DOWN MECHANISM..........17-13 2.7 SHIFT TRAY SIDE-TO-SIDE MECHANISM ..........17-14 2.8 PUNCH UNIT DRIVE MECHANISM ............17-15 2.9 PUNCH WASTE COLLECTION MECHNISM ........17-16 2.10 JAM CONDITIONS ................17-17 2.11 TIMING CHARTS.................17-18 2.11.1 A4 SIDEWAYS (2 SHEETS): NORMAL AND PUNCH MODE................17-18 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 16: Paper Limit Sensor

    4.4.5 STAPLER ROTATION HP SENSOR ........... 17-30 4.5 STAPLER REMOVAL ................17-31 4.6 PUNCH POSITION ADJUSTMENT ............17-32 Right to left ..................17-32 Front to rear ..................17-32 4.7 STACK FEED-OUT MOTOR SPEED ADJUSTMENT ......17-33 4.8 ROM HISTORY ..................17-34 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 17: Troubleshooting

    2.1.1 GETTING A SOURCE FILE .............19-2 2.1.2 PROGRAMMING A CARD WITH THE SOURCE ......19-2 2.2 DOWNLOADING TO A MACHINE............19-4 2.3 SAVING DATA TO A FILE ................19-4 3. FUNCTIONS ................19-5 3.1 FILE MENU ....................19-5 3.1.1 FILE – OPEN..................19-5 3.1.2 FILE – CLOSE..................19-5 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 18: Detailed Descriptions

    3.1.3 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE............ 20-12 1.2 BRIDGE UNIT FOR MAILBOX (G912) ..........20-15 1.2.1 ACCESSORY CHECK ..............20-15 1.2.2 INSTALLATION PROCEDURE............ 20-16 4. REPLACEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT........20-21 4.1 PROOF TRAY UNIT ................20-21 4.1.1 PROOF TRAY SENSOR AND PAPER OVERFLOW SENSORS............... 20-21 A230/A231/A232 xvii...

  • Page 19: Detailed Section Descriptions

    5.2 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ........21-11 5.3 TWAIN DRIVER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE A ......21-12 5.4 TWAIN DRIVER INSTALLATION PROCEDURE B ......21-12 5.5 RICOH SCAN UTILITY INSTALLATION PROCEDURE....... 21-16 5.6 SCANNING PROCEDURE ..............21-21 5.7 WINDOWS 98 CAUTIONS ..............21-27...

  • Page 20: Service Call Conditions

    2.3.4 TWO-SIDED (DUPLEX) PRINTING..........2-23 2.4 FAX COMMUNICATION FEATURES............. 2-25 2.4.1 SEP/SUB/PWD ................2-25 Selective Polling (SEP/PWD) ............. 2-26 Sub-address (SUB) ................2-26 2.4.2 JBIG COMPRESSION ..............2-27 2.4.3 V.8/V.34 PROTOCOL ..............2-28 V.8 in Manual Reception ..............2-28 Shift-down Conditions ................ 2-28 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 21 4.1.22 STAMP TEST (FUNCTION 11)............ 4-12 4.1.23 G4 PARAMETER PROGRAMMING (FUNCTION 12) ....4-13 4.1.24 FILE PRINTOUT (FUNCTION 13) ..........4-13 4.1.25 TCR/JOURNAL PRINTOUT (FUNCTION 14)......4-14 4.1.26 USAGE LOG PRINTOUT (FUNCTION 15)........4-14 4.1.27 DATA TRANSFER (FUNCTION 16) ..........4-15 A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 22: Switches

    Phase 3 (Equalizer Training).............. 6-11 Phase 4 and 5 (Control Channel)............6-11 Phase 6 (Primary Channel)..............6-11 Control Channel (Post Message - Sh)..........6-12 Control Channel (Post Message – PPh) ..........6-12 Control Channel Recovery (AC)............6-13 V.34 End .................... 6-13 A230/A231/A232...
  • Page 23 6.3 FAX SC CODES ..................6-18 6.3.1 SC1201 ..................6-18 6.3.2 SC1202 ..................6-18 6.3.3 SC1207 ..................6-19 6.3.4 SC1802/1811/1815 ................ 6-19 6.3.5 FAX SC CODE TABLE ..............6-20 6.4 FIRMWARE HISTORY ................6-21 6.4.1 A693 FIRMWARE MODIFICATION HISTORY ......6-21 A230/A231/A232 xxii...
  • Page 24 3.2.6 SESSION LAYER, DOCUMENT CONTROL LAYER (LAYER 5) ..3-8 3.3 LEDS ......................3-9 3.4 BACK-TO-BACK TEST................3-10 APPENDIX A A. D-CHANNEL LAYER 1 DUMP LIST ..........A-1 1.1 HOW TO PRINT THE DUMP LIST ............A-1 1.2 HOW TO READ THE DUMP LIST ............A-2 A230/A231/A232 xxiii...
  • Page 25 Reading the Sample Dump List............A-4 Layer 1 Status ..................A-7 APPENDIX-B B. G4 PARAMETER LOCATIONS ...........B-1 1.1 INITIAL PROGRAMMING ITEMS COMPARISON LIST ......B-1 1.2 SWITCH LOCATIONS COMPARISON LIST ..........B-2 APPENDIX-C C. CONDITIONS FOR RECEIVING A CALL ........C-1 xxiv A230/A231/A232...

  • Page 26: Replacement And Adjustment

    Rev. 5/15/99 A230 OVERALL MACHINE INFORMATION LARGE CAPACITY TRAY A683 3,000 SHEET FINISHER A697 OVERALL MACHINE INFORMATION A693 ISDN UNIT A816 A230 DETAILED SECTION DESCRIPTIONS BY-PASS A689 DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS A693 SwapBox™ and SwapFTL™ A230 INSTALLATION 1 BIN TRAY A684 INSTALLATION A693...

  • Page 27: Parts Catalog

    A230/A231/A232 PARTS CATALOG PN: RCPCA232 RICOH GROUP COMPANIES...

  • Page 28: Development

    24. DUPLEX UNIT 3 (A687) ......... 54 2. EXTERIOR 2 (A230/A231/A232) ......10 3. EXTERIOR 3 (A230/A231/A232) ......12 25. DRIVE SECTION 1 (A230/A231/A232) ....56 4. PLATEN COVER (A381).......... 14 26. DRIVE SECTION 2 (A230/A231/A232) ....58 5. OPERATION PANEL ASS’Y (A230/A231/A232) ..16 27.

  • Page 29: Paper Registration

    PAPER TRAY UNIT A682 PARTS LOCATION AND LIST 1. EXTERIOR (A682)................2 2. ORIGINAL FEED 1 (A680)............6 2. PAPER TRAY (A682) ..............4 3. ORIGINAL FEED 2 (A680)............8 3. PAPR REGISTRATION (A682) ............6 4. ORIGINAL TRANSFER (A680) ............. 10 4.

  • Page 30: Fax Options

    Rev. 5/99 8. ELECTRICAL SECTION (A681) ......18 FAX OPTION 1 A693/A818/A816/A646 PARTS LOCATION AND LIST 9. DECAL AND DOCUMENT (A681) ......20 1. FAX OPTION 1 (A693/A818/A816/A646) ....2 2. FAX OPTION 2 (A693/A818/A816/A646) ....4 FINISHER A680 PARTS INDEX PARTS INDEX ..............
  • Page 31 2. EXTERIOR 2 (A230/A231/A232) 3. EXTERIOR 3 (A230/A231/A232) See Page 9 See Page 11 See Page 13 4. PLATEN COVER (A381) 5. OPERATION PANEL ASS’Y (A230/A231/A232) 6. OPTICS UNIT 1 (A230/A231/A232) See Page 15 See Page 19 See Page 17 A230/A231/A232...

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