i stand by my view of the Ricoh Metis range as being shite. Dev units failing early as normal - bags of crap these are!
i stand by my view of the Ricoh Metis range as being shite. Dev units failing early as normal - bags of crap these are!
I always liked the early Konicas. I felt like the merger was when they tanked. Minolta bankrupted their company so Konica hands the reins of their to the bad managers? makes sense to me. Minolta was always the driving force behind their color though.
Oh well...all ancient history now.
I'm told it's actually been faulty toner bottles causing the void lines, etc. that so many of have seen on the Metis series. Trainer showed me a couple of tiny black clumps he said came out of a Metis toner bottle. These get worked into the dev units and cause voids.
I've seen so many bad batches of toner since these things came out...
Anything that says Kyocera.
Understood, I was on the other side of the fence, Legacy Konica and when the service modes and codes started making sense to nobody, the complaints started flying. And yes, the 7155 was a weird box. Seemed to dump toner and could not keep clean. Feed units were easy to service but required too much service. The prior machines were much stronger (except for the 7055 7065) Still, compared to some of the current machines, they were not as bad as they got to be.
I HATED the days right after the merger when nobody had a clue who was in charge and what the combination was going to put out next.
By far the machine that I hate to work on the most is the xerox 9201 colorqube. Every call takes up half your day purging print heads and masking jets. The 30 min warm up time is ridicules. The only positive thing about them is they rarely jam.
Any Konica Minolta that ends with an E! These have been the biggest piles of crap I've seen since Ricoh thought it was a great idea to use gel ink instead of toner.
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