Do you have a copier at home?

[zed255]

Re: Do you have a copier at home?

Recently picked up a very gently used Ricoh MP161SPF from a wholesaler for peanuts. Since it is my brand taking care of it will be a piece of cake. This would be my first 'proper' commercial grade MFP at the house, all prior was just consumer level junk.

[Counsel]

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I have a brother 8710, two Ricoh MP 171, an HP 4000, and two HP Color printers, all from the goodwill pile at work. They all function.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

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I have a brother 8710, two Ricoh MP 171, an HP 4000, and two HP Color printers, all from the goodwill pile at work. They all function.

4000 series were great printers. Wish I could still get them.

[gneebore]

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4000 series were great printers. Wish I could still get them.

Did a quick search and for some reason there were five refurbs left at Walmart.com for 179 bucks. Plus if you really want to pay a lot Amazon had some for around 800 plus.

[copier tech]

Re: Do you have a copier at home?

Yes, an MPC305SPF, not really for work just for personal use, very handy, it was a scrap machine but I rebuilt & repaired it ;O)

[JimFonLI]

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Have a small canon, gets used as a loaner, etc and I do actually use it to copy checks, etc. for my personal use. Have had many good oldies around until I robbed them for parts.

[allan]

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Only bit and pieces of copiers...
Need to get one to print my PCB transfers.

There is only one printer i will allow in my house.
And that would be a brother laser like the DN8880 or the KM B20.

[gneebore]

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Kind of weird but I had to dig through the spare bedroom junk closet. And found a Canon NP1020. A friend wanted me to look at it a few years ago, like eight or more. I did rebuild the drum unit but it needed toner. He didn't have any and by the time I found some in stock he had already replaced with a little image class and didn't want it back. So I stuck the beast in an out of the way place and forgot about it. Heck the cleaning blade has probably melted to the drum by now. Saw that happen to one customer with a PC6re. They got a "great deal" toner cartridges and bought ten of them. I warned them not to buy that many because they only used one every four or five months, And then when they put the sixth one in it had lines across the page.

Anyway the old warhorse 1020 is going to the recycle center to be broken up and the circuit boards removed for metal recovery.

[Cipher]

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I have a SP3410SF which I fished out of the skip and brought back to life.

But I would like a small A4 colour laser MFD for home.
Problem is I personally don't like Ricoh's lower end offerings.

So I have a eye on a Canon i-SENSYS MF633Cdw which is a charming little MFD.

[Eresources]

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Konica Bizhub C200. Work was going to junk it so i rescued it. Has come in handy for friends and family. Got a set of toners and image units for free so it'll never cost me anything.

[theengel]

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My wife puts up with a lot. I have printers and copiers all over the place. Also a few plotters. But then, I'm an indie, so I end up selling some of them.

[gneebore]

Re: Do you have a copier at home?

I have a SP3410SF which I fished out of the skip and brought back to life.

But I would like a small A4 colour laser MFD for home.
Problem is I personally don't like Ricoh's lower end offerings.

So I have a eye on a Canon i-SENSYS MF633Cdw which is a charming little MFD.

Kind of depends on how many copies/prints you will be making. I have a small canon inkjet machine. Cost all of 21 dollars with tax. The ink actually costs twice as much. But I haven't used either color or black cartridge fully yet. If I need to fax anything I scan and then use a fax website. Just can not justify the added expense of a color laser machine with very low volume of printing. Heck even just one of the toner/drum units costs more the two of the machine I bought, a Canon mp2550

[theengel]

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So you get a really old color laser printer and keep it running... and try to be in the right place at the right time when people throw their old supplies away (like when you sell them a new machine) Right now I have a HP CLJ 4600. I happened to be talking to a customer who mentioned they were throwing out 4 OEM toner ctgs. I'll probably keep the machine only until it runs out of toner. There are so many used units floating around that if I throw it away when I run out of toner, it's not that big a deal.

[jimmcgee]

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Yes. I work from home and so over the years I've had hundred. Mainly for "parts". At one stage I filled my 4 car garage with the shit. These days the car is back in the garage (most of the time), and I throw machines out as they arrive. Our local council takes them for free as eWaste, so that's handy. I'm now also a building designer and drafter about 50% of the time so I keep a Lexmark x945e for printing out drawings, mainly because an associate bought 20 of the things for $30 each and so there is a steady supply of spare parts there (the hard drives keep crashing).

My first copier for home use was a Xerox 3100 that usually took an hour of servicing before I could make a couple of copies.

[bob marley]

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Yes, I have sharp AR-5316