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

[Kidaver]

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In an office full of ladies with long hair I had found several strands of hair wrapped around the mag roller in one of the color devs causing odd CQ issues.

[fixthecopier]

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A void that seemed to move across the paper with each print on a bizhub 250. Pulled the IU out and a roach jumped out and made it a few feet before I introduced him to the bottom of my shoe.

[Kidaver]

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Other day over at a local elementary she called for machine constantly jamming Taskalfa 8001i. This lil old lady is only one allowed to use copier so when she calls it's usually a pretty serious problem as she knows the machine well. so I show up and look at a paper she pulled out. Had this weird brown spot on it. So ran one and sure enough jammed right at that guide near the registration section. Unscrewed it and pulled it off and found the culprit. One big ass nasty smashed up waterbug cockroach. Was kinda gross.

[Lagonda]

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One of the field techs just called in to let me know he'd solve a mystery noise in a waste toner drive, there was a ball of cat fur in the auger. Still waiting for a report on the cats health.

Sudden thought.........that might be where the expression copycat comes from!!

[slimslob]

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One of the field techs just called in to let me know he'd solve a mystery noise in a waste toner drive, there was a ball of cat fur in the auger. Still waiting for a report on the cats health.

Sudden thought.........that might be where the expression copycat comes from!!

We need a laugh button.

[moose55]

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Nothing found (besides mice), but did have a customer once state that their "color copier won't print white!" (several years ago). Got there and discovered they were printing certificates on yellow parchment paper and it would not print white where it was supposed to be white. It showed the area being white on the computer screen!

[Phil B.]

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Nothing found (besides mice), but did have a customer once state that their "color copier won't print white!" (several years ago). Got there and discovered they were printing certificates on yellow parchment paper and it would not print white where it was supposed to be white. It showed the area being white on the computer screen!

sounds like some of the teachers I have dealt with in the past. Then parents wonder WHY the kids are in such sad shape.

[ricoh_rockstar]

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A couple of months ago, a customer brought me a HP Deskjet 3050, she said that it was her daughter's printers and she was trying to do her homework but the printer was jamming the paper. I took a look and I found a used condom twisted and trapped in the pickup rollers, It was disgusting!!. I told her that the printer just needed maintenance. The next day, some dude picked the printer up and paid for the maintenance, he looked sooo embarrased !! lol

[Lagonda]

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It's not so much of whats been put in but whats been taken out. Someone got into a paper tray on a Lexmark and neatly snipped out 50mm of wiring loom. Why????


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[Hansoon]

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It's not so much of whats been put in but whats been taken out. Someone got into a paper tray on a Lexmark and neatly snipped out 50mm of wiring loom. Why????


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Sabotage. Had similar once long time ago. Guy, operator of a large chemical photo developing machine, was terminated and just before he left ripped out just one, but critical, wire out of a connector from the power supply.

Hans

[fixthecopier]

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found this online. felt it belonged here.

http://i.imgur.com/nqZJnUv.mp4

[Lenovich]

[gneebore]

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Reminded me of a very weird machine a customer carried in. The copies had a perfect image of a mouse randomly printing on the page. The machine was a Mita 1415. A nice old analog. Ran two pages and sure enough right there was a mouse image. Small and not a full grown mouse. Took the drum out and right on the drum was an etched image of the mouse. And in the back of the machine at the end of the transfer separation was the body of the mouse. Figured that the mouse was in the machine and started running away from the front as the copy button was pressed and the charge shorted through its body while it had enough life left to make it to the back of the machine. best part was the customer was wondering if they could get it fixed under warranty.

[Ctl-Alt-Del]

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It's not inside the copier but does this count?

[gneebore]

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It's not inside the copier but does this count?

Reminded me of a story I read on I believe it was Smarka when they were still available a few years ago. Seems the owner of a office dealership could not understand why one customer was using so much toner. Techs would go on calls and check machine and things were apparently fine. This was back when the copier was an analog Mita if I remember correctly. Anyway they delivered toner when needed. They would call the customer for monthly copy counts and toner supply levels in the cabinet. Then one day a tech had to make an earlier than normal run even further out and was passing the problem machine with a toner order. So stopped by to drop the toner off. When he got there there he saw a gal making sky shots on the copier. So he went over and had to see what she was doing. Seems the secretary was putting her bagels on the glass and running it until the lamp warmed her bagel up enough to put butter on it. Oh yes the office did not have a microwave yet or a toaster. Tech explained that was why the toner ran out so fast and it was not recommended to make copies with the document feeder raised. He also grabbed the copies out of the trash as proof when he showed his boss. Reason they never saw the sky shots was the cleaning crew came through (actually while he was there) before everyone started working and emptied the waste baskets in the mornings.