Best copier for dirty environment?

[wagon]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by chuckt528
	Not giggling. Pretty sure that's one of the first ones we tried!

You poor, poor b**tards.

[Phil]

Doesn't sound like any machine will hold up too well in that dusty of an enviroment. You didn't say if you called a tech to clean it or if you did it yourself. If you are calling a tech every month it could get expensive, if you are doing it yourself just chalk it up as on going maintenance.

[b003ace]

I had a customer who ran a metal fabrication shop. They used a PLASMA CUTTER to cut steel and other metals. Their office was in a corner of the shop floor, no walls, no exhaust fan, no nothing. The machine would develop a film of 'rust' on every surface, inside and out, every month. In fact, the entire office had a thin coating of 'rust' on everything, even the computers. I often wondered about what OSHA would think of everyone breathing that stuff, day after day. I was very glad to only go there three or four times a year. I took over the account when they got the Ricoh.

They replaced a Sharp that needed service every two weeks, with a Ricoh 1018. The Ricoh would go about three months between service calls. The Sharp had charge wire problems ALL the time. The Ricoh just chugged along from PM to PM, got 60K out of the drum, developer, and charge rollers all the time. Needed a transfer roller with every drum, but still not bad. Biggest problem was metal deposits eventually building up on CCD in scanner. After three years, had to replace the imaging board as even canned 'air' couldn't blow enough dirt off the CCD surface anymore. When customer asked about what to replace it with, I told him to stick with a Ricoh. One with a charge roller, transfer roller, and xenon lamp through a lens scanner.

Last time I went by there, the sign was gone. Don't know if they went out of business, were bought, or just moved out of my territory.

[Mark B]

A pencil is the best thing for coping in a dirty env.

[Alternate]

We have a few Xerox DC186 at a few minesites that get very dirty, but they keep going

[Jan Sommer]

We are also servicing a steel plant. Currently there are mostly Ricoh's Aficio3025/3030 installed - the machines are running very well even if they looks like crap if they haven't been visited for a while. Hard to believe, but most of them are running even better than the same products in a clean office but that may be so because that customer isn't complaining about every little copy quality issue

One day I got a call for support because the machine jammed. My first impression was ~50 arc marks and a PCU with >120k prints on it's PM counter.

We started with Aficio220/270s, some years later we replaced them with the 1022/1027s series - as you can see we are happy enough to keep up on that product line wich based on the same engine.

I don't know if the actual generation (MP2550/3550) is also reliable enough to stand that kind of customers but I'd guess so.