How To Tell A Genuine Kyocera Mita Toner Container - Kyocera FS-2020D Service Manual

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(4) How to tell a genuine Kyocera Mita toner container

As a means of brand protection, the Kyocera Mita 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 Mita branded toner container, otherwise, it is a coun-
terfeit.
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.
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Validation viewer
Figure 1-5-1
Incision
Figure 1-5-2
)
)
See through the right window
( marking)
Brand
protection
seal
A shiny or gold-colored band when
seen through the right side window
Cut
Validation viewer