Xerox ColorQube 9303 Error: 093-533

[Detonation]

I literally have 20 used 93xx / 92xx colorqubes on hand for parts at any time.

We have about 12 left out in the field we have to service.

I will use ALL OF THE 20 MACHINES for parts in 6 months.

That is how quick the pieces of s**t fail.

Such a shame Xerox built them so badly. I've always loved solid ink, but have the feeling nothing ever really improved (to put it mildly) in terms of reliability since the Tektronix Phasers.

[Richard.Xerox]

They're built really well compared to their laser office boxes (compare the feel and finish to a WC78XX or WC59XX, those boxes feel cheap and nasty by comparison) Just a few quirks with CQ92/93.

If they made the umbilicals with non air permeable tubing that would be half the battle over with, no more air ingress. Also uprate the reservior solenoids and those 2 things would pretty much cure the ink delivery faults.

Solid ink is Xerox' highest margin product so i imagine it will be back at some point when they have worked out the kinks and cheapened it up some more, unless of course they move page-wide inkjet over from the Brenva line and start using it in the office (HP already do this with an A4 MFP)