Tech Symbols (Codes)

[ignacio.cortez]

Some years back, I used to work with some "OLD" (dont mean old people, I mean people that have been in the industry) that used to use Symbols in the History cards, i.e.... Circle, Circle half filled, Triangle, Full triangle, etc etc, there symbols stood for Swapped, Replaced, cleaned and so forth, but it's been a long time and I dont remember them at all, does anyone out there knows what I'm talking about and would be willing to share the wisdom?

[NeoMatrix]

Not sure about the symbols you are talking about. There was symbols use in some of the old --- old toshiba and canon manuals. Some time ago now. I'm getting brain strain remembering that far back...

There is the usual short hand notation use to fill out the techs job card or the copier history log.
Acronyms like :

M/C for "machine"
NFF "no fault found"
Ass'y for "Assembly"
N.G. "no good"
U/S "up the sh!t" (Damaged)
R/S "rat sh!t" (Damaged)
M/T "Empty"
SMC "Service reports"

Then you have all your Consumable acronyms ;

C/R "Charge roller
P/R "Pressure roller"
H/R "Hot roller"
Dev "Developer" K,C,Y,M
Etc....
Etc...


There is loads more, other techs may like to add some for you.

[ZOOTECH]

For when you can't answer a customer's questions, you have AM or FM (Another Miracle or Frickin' Magic).

[KenB]

Oh, Man, that does go back a long time!

I (vaguely) remember that we used to get preprinted service log forms from Canon that had all the "practical" codes to use printed on the back.

Any time that we needed to escalate a service issue to them, these are the codes they required when we gave them a service history on a machine.

Of course, once we had a few good "masters", we stopped buying them.

I would think that nearly all large dealers have come up with their own standard by this point.

[NeoMatrix]

ZOOTECH

Love ya signature text ... I thought it very appropriate to our younger generation. LOL....

[blackcat4866]

Something like this KenB? I still use it every day. It hasn't changed much since 1994. =^..^=

[NeoMatrix]

Awww comon BlackCat surely no one really remembered all those codes ...

What where they a walking calculator

[KenB]

Yep... looks a bit familiar.

[blackcat4866]

There was a time when I could spout the whole list. Nowadays I can regularly remember perhaps 30 of the most common ones. =^..^=

[ignacio.cortez]

Still not quite what I had in mind, this is back in the Analog days, like I said before it wasnt trouble codes it was more of a substitution, For instance I think the Filled Triangle meant Changed/Replaced so it would look like "[FILLED_TRIANGLE] UHR/UFR, [FILLED CIRCLE] (I think this was "cleaned") OPTICS......" Something like that. The techs I learned it from were Minolta Techs, back when the EP series was still pretty popular, heck they even had overlays for the copier panels for when they got into the TECH MODE (a green button behind a plate that was held by one screw) That was back on my rookie days, the 2100 and the 1080 were the first machines I was trained on