Life expectancy of machines

[JPiek]

I often post to techs on this website, to give it up and put a bullet in the too old copier.

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The techs I work with routinely flush out of their minds how to repair discontinued copier that are more than eight years old.
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I declined service on a 6 year old 25 cpm A3 b/w copier today with 550k on it. The account never generated much revenue, the service contract had expired and the copier was uneconomical to repair. I quoted them a new copier. We will see what happens.

You just perfectly explained the difference between a Salesperson and a Tech. !

btw. In Holland we have something we call (translated) 'The law of conservation of misery', if fixing one issue creates another one, i'll give up

[vwbay72]

After 5 years Canons are due for replacement, after then they become unreliable and new models have been released for the customer to upgrade to.