Hot Roller Cleaning; Fusing Unit Drive Mechanism - Ricoh Neptune-P1 Service Manual

Fusing Unit

Hot Roller Cleaning

The cleaning roller [A] (parallel to the hot roller) always touches the hot roller [B] with a low pressure. The
cleaning roller has a layer of material that is soaked with silicone oil. Each time the fusing motor switches
on, it reverses for 400 ms (at line speed 30 mm/s) to clean the hot roller.
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Fusing Unit Drive Mechanism

The fusing motor [A] (a stepper motor) controls the gears and timing belt [B] that turn the hot roller [C]
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