What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

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  • mrwho
    Major Asshole!

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    • Apr 2009
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    #61
    Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

    Originally posted by mjunkaged
    BTW I never get tired of your (lifted from mascan) tag line...but now that I'm also salesman as well as tech., I'm TURNING INTO AN ASSHOLE!! Don't do sales if you like being nice to people! Sales REQUIRES being one.
    It was an actual quote from Mascan42 on this very forum. Best thing I've ever read over here!
    ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
    Mascan42

    'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

    Ibid

    I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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    • mrwho
      Major Asshole!

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      #62
      Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

      Originally posted by mrwho
      It was an actual quote from Mascan42 on this very forum. Best thing I've ever read over here!
      Sorry for the obvious answer - I just woke up and I'm on vacation - my brain is still asleep.
      ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
      Mascan42

      'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

      Ibid

      I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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      • Steve Baker
        Technician
        • Aug 2011
        • 22

        #63
        Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

        Originally posted by Nieu
        What is the weirdest thing that you have ever found in a copier or printer.I found an ipod in one of my clients printers.The complaint was "weird sounds coming out of the printer"
        Went to a call for pcq and found a mac donalds wrapper around the drum!!! Had another call for jamming in a fax machine and found a biscuit inside the feed section...
        Apparantly they had a food fight in the office the day before!!
        WARNING... Please dont feed the copier and fax machines!!

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        • Draloch

          #64
          Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

          Found a pie 'keeping warm' in an old Ricoh copier, on top of fusing unit!

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          • banginbishop
            grumpy old git

            500+ Posts
            • Oct 2007
            • 894

            #65
            Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

            ok, not too long ago I errrrrrr went to a mpc6000 for jamming and next thing i know its dead. ordered a psu and discovered my cough cough cleaning brush jammed in the fuser.
            Incontinentia Buttocks

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            • mrwho
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              #66
              Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

              Originally posted by banginbishop
              ok, not too long ago I errrrrrr went to a mpc6000 for jamming and next thing i know its dead. ordered a psu and discovered my cough cough cleaning brush jammed in the fuser.
              If your boss ever reads this...
              ' "But the salesman said . . ." The salesman's an asshole!'
              Mascan42

              'You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.'

              Ibid

              I'm just an ex-tech lurking around and spreading disinformation!

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              • oldschool
                Trusted Tech

                100+ Posts
                • Mar 2007
                • 245

                #67
                Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                I was asked to remove a dead bat from the copier in our show room. I found a bat taped to the inside door with its wings spread and taped in place. Apparently the poor little guy found its way into our office after hours. The salesman staying late saw it and grabbed an exit tray and smacked it right out of the air killing it. He decided it would be funny to stick it on the inside front door of a copier that the office used for copies. This copier was also in the showroom! He taped it to the door and taped it's wings open so it looked rather menacing and created a paper jam in the copier. The next morning the sales secretary found it and screamed at the top of her lungs! The boss was not amused and the spit hit the fan! Being somewhat of a practical joker myself got me falsely accused of the misdeed. Eventually the salesman came clean. After that when we saw him coming we would go Dah nuh nuh nuh na Batman!. No one was fired but the salesman left shortly there after. I think it was because the sales secretary kept messing up his commissions.
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                • jculljr

                  #68
                  Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                  Had a customer use the openable fuser of an old SF740 to heat up his sandwich!

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                  • banginbishop
                    grumpy old git

                    500+ Posts
                    • Oct 2007
                    • 894

                    #69
                    Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                    Originally posted by mrwho
                    If your boss ever reads this...
                    well i ordered the part, another engineer went out with the supervisor (his area) and have since took the P**s - so fair enough on my cock up. Supervisors know its not a regular thing so it was just lets take the p**s out of him.

                    I would have figured it out as i knew something had taken out the psu i.e. too much load so would have turned it on without the fuser installed but as it had taken out the psu i was screwed untill i had a new psu.
                    Incontinentia Buttocks

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                    • igi
                      Service Manager

                      1,000+ Posts
                      • Apr 2009
                      • 1507

                      #70
                      Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                      Originally posted by Ikon Princess
                      A live rat! I screamed he ran nobody in the office came in to find out why their tech was screaming. people kill me.
                      they never came to check,

                      because they were tinkingthat you trying the new scream to repair procedure(i heard about it once)
                      did it work?

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                      • igi
                        Service Manager

                        1,000+ Posts
                        • Apr 2009
                        • 1507

                        #71
                        Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                        Hi
                        sf -8100 freaking wasps
                        i hate them
                        cheers

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                        • Dave10
                          Trusted Tech

                          100+ Posts
                          • Jul 2008
                          • 197

                          #72
                          Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                          Got a call for doc feeder jamming this morning. Got there and found a teacher had tried to run a workbook through the feeder.

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                          • kyrenecopy
                            Trusted Tech

                            100+ Posts
                            • Apr 2012
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                            #73
                            Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                            Used to work on a Lanier 537 at a coal fired power plant in SE Arizona. Every time I went there it was covered in coal dust inside and out. Sat right by a window that was always open. It took hours to clean it up knowing full well that I would be back in a couple of weeks to do it all over again.
                            Testing 1-2-3, testing, testing. Is this thing on?

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                            • Jules Winfield
                              Senior Tech

                              500+ Posts
                              • Jul 2009
                              • 821

                              #74
                              Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                              Originally posted by kyrenecopy
                              Used to work on a Lanier 537 at a coal fired power plant in SE Arizona. Every time I went there it was covered in coal dust inside and out. Sat right by a window that was always open. It took hours to clean it up knowing full well that I would be back in a couple of weeks to do it all over again.
                              We used to have a Mita DC-2055 in a concrete manufacturing plant office. Even though cheesecloth was covering every vent, it made no difference...
                              But I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard... to be the Shepherd.

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                              • Lagonda
                                Service Manager

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                                • Aug 2008
                                • 1649

                                #75
                                Re: What's the weirdest thing that you have ever found inside a copier,printer?

                                One of the techs brought a A4 printer that lived inside a -5C cold store back to the workshop to solve a problem. Even though it had been in the back of his car for a half hour it was still very, very cold to the touch inside. The strange thing was even though it was living in an enviroment 15 deg colder than recomended it was performing very well. This was probably due to the zero humidity level. Once we removed the short 'n curly from the charge roller, away it went again.
                                At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.

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