Phaser 7100 Imaging Unit req after less than 500 pages?

[juniorbeep]

Hi Had a phaser 7100 for about a year. It's in my home studio where I print very little, not sure exact number of prints to date but I'm imagining under 500 easily. (can't tell as printer locked by request for imaging unit) Today I printed three pages and suddenly all stop and it says it requires a new K imaging unit. I understood these had a life off 1000's can someone advise how to reset this? Image quality was never an issue prints totally clean and streak free etc. Any ideas?

[Joe Arseneau]

Have you tried just taking it out and putting it back in?

It should work for about 52,000 impressions, even if it was a starter cartridge it would be half that, so 26,000.

I may be able to give a clearer picture of the issue and a possible fix if you can get the actual error code that comes with the error.