NeXT
Veteran Member
I picked this up last weekend at MECO and have been letting it dehumidify the last few days. Plugged it in and I get power, I get lights, I get motors and it comes up to a blinking READY with no errors on the display. Came with a stack of test prints as well so when it was originally for sale it made perfect prints.
Google points at the -020 model which seems to be an earlier version where the print engine RIP was on a card in the host computer. This is a later model from August 1987 where it seems serial, parallel and Appletalk support are all built-in and configured by dip switches along with a PostScript/PCL interpreter and 2mb ram.
The Internet also implies it's based around the RICOH-6000 print engine. It did not come with a drum cartridge installed but the purchase came with two extra and boxed drum cartridges. Before I put a new drum in it needs to be cleaned because the sealing edge of the toner refill hopper has failed and there is toner everywhere. One of the paper eject belts has also broken apart with age.
One thing I'm noticing is the fuser is not heating up. I have not removed the lamp to see if it's gone open but was that interlocked with the drum cartridge? There is two pieces of scanned documentation for the printer on archive.org but they seem to be in German. Presumably all the archived diskettes for this printer also are for the 020 model.
Google points at the -020 model which seems to be an earlier version where the print engine RIP was on a card in the host computer. This is a later model from August 1987 where it seems serial, parallel and Appletalk support are all built-in and configured by dip switches along with a PostScript/PCL interpreter and 2mb ram.
The Internet also implies it's based around the RICOH-6000 print engine. It did not come with a drum cartridge installed but the purchase came with two extra and boxed drum cartridges. Before I put a new drum in it needs to be cleaned because the sealing edge of the toner refill hopper has failed and there is toner everywhere. One of the paper eject belts has also broken apart with age.
One thing I'm noticing is the fuser is not heating up. I have not removed the lamp to see if it's gone open but was that interlocked with the drum cartridge? There is two pieces of scanned documentation for the printer on archive.org but they seem to be in German. Presumably all the archived diskettes for this printer also are for the 020 model.