Does anyone out there use a rechipper to reprogram IU chips for the Kyocera Mita KM-C1530, C2030, C3130, C2230? If so what are you using and are you having any problems with it. I purchased one and was told it would work for the Kyocera machines, and I still can not get it to read the old chip so I can edit it. Mayby I'm doing something wrong or the unit has a problem. I've been working with the mfr. of the unit for close to a month with no resolution. I need to get this thing working, as I have close to 100 iu's to reprogram. You do the math, thats close to $34,000.00 at cost for these units.

I Purchased one from Copystar a couple years ago. works great. No problems at all

Sorry Guys.... I forgot to post a follow up. The problem I was having with the rechipper was related to my laptop. The parallel port was bad, although I had no problems printing from it.. Go figure. Anywho, It's been working great on a different laptop and I have reprogrammed over 100 chips so far...

Gazoo,
from your brief description I would suggest checking the bios settings of the parallel port. IF you can print, but it does not interface properly with the chip programmer, the output channel is open, but bi-directional com may be disabled.

Thanks Jeff.... That was an old laptop (orig win 95) that we tried to update and revive just for the reprogrammer. Needless to say we have scrapped it..

Gazoo where did you get your rechipper ? Does it work with KM C2230 IU ? Thanks

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While we're at it, what the hell is rechipping?

Does anyone have a number for a vendor for a rechipper or the service. I used to have a couple of vendors that seem to be out of business????

WeBe it reprograms the chip on a image unit so that in my case a C-2230 will recognize it as new. It saves money due to the fact you can get twice the life of the unit.