How To Tell A Genuine Kyocera Toner Container; Figure 1 - Kyocera TASKalfa 6501i Service Manual

(4) How to tell a genuine Kyocera toner container

As a means of brand protection, the Kyocera toner container utilizes an optical security technology to enable
visual validation. A validation viewer is required to accomplish this.
Hold the validation viewer over the left side part of the brand protection seal on the toner container. Through
each window of the validation viewer, the left side part of the seal should be seen as follows:
A black-colored band when seen through the left side window (
A shiny or gold-colored band when seen through the right side window (
The above will reveal that the toner container is a genuine Kyocera branded toner container, otherwise, it is a
counterfeit.
See through the left window
( marking)
Brand
protection
seal
A black-colored band when
seen through the left side window
The brand protection seal has an incision as shown below to prohibit reuse.
Validation viewer

Figure 1-5-1

Incision
Figure 1-5-2
1-5-2
)
)
See through the right window
( marking)
Validation viewer
Brand
protection
seal
A shiny or gold-colored band when
seen through the right side window
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