Silly locations that you've seen printers or copiers sitting.

[Phrag]

I recall seeing a Kyocera FS-1370 bolted down to a shelf in a truck that would go on road-trips for service calls on industrial equipment at mines and such.

I wonder why it had to be cleaned out all the time...

[blackcat4866]

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Way back we had a Mita DC-161 that was at a church. It was sitting on a 1/2" thick piece of plate glass with 2" x 4" wooden legs. The legs were not attached to the glass in any way (except maybe gravity), and each time I ran a copy, the machine jiggled on its 'stand'. I was afraid to stand too close in case the machine crashed on my legs or feet. When I expressed concern about the 'table', the priest said: "If God wanted it to fall, it would have by now."

I had a Mita DC-111C inside a wooden cabinet. The cabinet was built around the machine, and it did not fit through the door. To clean the optics I would have to rotate the machine this way and that, to get it disassembled ... like a ship in a bottle.

I had a Canon NP-6050 with sorter, that was in a cubicle 4 ft x 4 ft, and the remaining inches were filled with mailboxes. None of the doors could be opened. The toner could not be installed. There was various miscellaneous mail piled all over the machine and sorter bins. Each visit I would have to find the manager, and tell him that I cannot service the machine in it's present location. It took 1/2 hour to an hour to disassemble all the crap piled around the machine and the cube opened up, before I could get a door open. Every visit was the same.

A few years ago I was called out to examine a couple of 15 yr old HP plotters for a possible service contract, that had been stored in a barn for the last 5 years. The covers were coated in bat shit. The ink cartridges had hardened up solid years ago. They also wanted these plotters connected ... except that there was nowhere to connect serial cables to the Win7 64bit computers, even if the plotters were serviceable. It's hard to know where to start ... to list all the reasons why this isn't going to work.
=^..^=

[vincent64]

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Some years ago, when I worked for the other place, we had a cust. with a Sharp SD 2060 with a 20 bin sorter, ya'll recall them, it was located in a closet in a nursing home, it fit wall to wall in there, if you needed to do any work, it had to be moved out into the hall way, not fun when it was hair day, as the beauty shop was at the end of the hall.

[Phrag]

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I'm glad that none of our machines are located in such terrible environments. I absolutely loathe not having enough room to kneel down and place parts and tools around me.

Although some locations are a bit of a squeeze, nothing is as bad as blackcat's little 4' x4' cupboard.

[mojorolla]

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Right on the carpeted floor!!! So cheap they won't spring for a stand.
Run your cheap ass to the local megastore and buy a $20 particle board table.
On deals without stands, the warehouse boys bring 3/4 plywood and a saw...just in case.

We have one on the floor at a gym. I must admit I chuckle watching those meatheads on all fours clearing jams.

Had a nursing home and the machine was right under the time clock. Every 3 minutes someone had to punch in, out, lunch, etc. PMs were a slow lengthy hell words could never truly describe.
And after all that, there was a resident who would sit there and say the phrase "I love you" about every 10 seconds. At first, I wanted to take my own life with a screwdriver, but over the years, I grew to look forward that old bird. One day, no more "I love you"; she had passed. I freely admit it made me sad.

A diesel truck repair shop. All the fans turn black from the fumes. Drum surfaces don't last very long in that environment.

A rock crushing plant. Need I say more?

Any public school. Anyone who has ever had to service theses KNOWS what I am talking about.

[slimslob]

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Any public school. Anyone who has ever had to service theses KNOWS what I am talking about.

What is wrong with public schools?

I have 5 machines at Wasco Elementary, two in the district office and three in the Resource Center. Includes two color units and a Pro 1107 EX. Ten at Wasco High School including 2 color units and a Pro 1107 EX ans an old analog. Rio Bravo Greeley has a Pro 907 EX. Buttonwillow elementary has an 8075.

Taft City Schools has a Pro 1357 EX with a LCIT, a Cover Interposer, a Multifold Unit, and a Booklet Finisher and a Pro 1107EX with a Booklet Maker at the warehouse. An MP C4502 and a LD250 at the District Office. Taft Primary has two MP 3352s. Conley has an MP 4001 and a high speed duplicator. Lincoln Junior High has an MP 2851 and an MP 5001 at the main campus and an MPC 3352 at the annex. Rosevelt has an MP 2851 and a high speed duplicator. And parkview and Jefferson both have MP 3352s.

For a problem location try a prison. I used to work on over 20 MFPs at the California Correctional Institute in Tehachapi. You had to leave your cell phone at the main gate. Most locations were at least 100 yards from the parking at each level to gate into the level. Correction officers were extrmely rough on equipment. If there was an incident with an inmate while you were there, you were locked down until the incident was resolved. Almost got snowed in one time. The state finally lowered the rate they pay for a contract to below what it cost us for supplies so we didn't renew.

[coolbeer]

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I got called to an RAF base to look at an old Ricoh copier with occasional blurred prints, it was located inside the hanger in a portacabin. I tested the machine and although a bit dusty worked perfectly until they started to test one of the Tornado aircraft engines. Wow it was loud and the vibration in the cabin was unreal.
When I eventually got out, the cabin had actually move about an inch across the hanger floor, you could see from the dust marks around its feet!
Problem found, call closed.

[Exok]

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I have a Kyocera printer located under a desk on the floor of a very cramped office. The desk is open in the front so I have to lay on the floor and contort my body to fit under the desk around all sorts of clutter piled and stacked all over the place.

This quickly becomes my favorite machine location on days when the woman who's desk this is, is wearing a short skirt.

[CraigW]

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7075 in a spot where washer & dryer would set (hey, it had 220v available) got much better when the finisher died and could use an exit tray.
Ha Ha, 7075 with an exit tray that had to be a 1st.

Printers on the floor, and in cabinets.

Worked on a Copystar 1435 had to clean the optics with it still plugged in as the plug was behind a wall of filed papers.


Often warn people about having trash cans and everything under the sun RIGHT NEXT to the finisher, have seen the horror and don't want to re-live it.

[Akitu]

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FO-2080 in a kitchen, right beside a meat slicer. They never even bothered to clean off the stray bits of meat that landed on the side.
They wondered why their machine could never hold copy quality (to be fair, the 2080 can barely hold CQ in a proper environment).

I have a thing about greasy/viscous substances on my hands, probably stemming from obsessive compulsive tendencies. Touching the covers on that machine with old caked on grease was almost enough to set me off, fortunately there are large reserves of soap in the bathroom here. I was so thrilled when they got an MP201 to replace it, the little tank box holds CQ like nobody's business, and they moved the meat slicer away from the machine after I showed them the covers of their old one...

[blackcat4866]

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I got called to an RAF base to look at an old Ricoh copier with occasional blurred prints, it was located inside the hanger in a portacabin. I tested the machine and although a bit dusty worked perfectly until they started to test one of the Tornado aircraft engines. Wow it was loud and the vibration in the cabin was unreal.
When I eventually got out, the cabin had actually move about an inch across the hanger floor, you could see from the dust marks around its feet!
Problem found, call closed.

Yeah, I had a blurr call like that. I had an Canon NP-8030 at a plant that stamps metal automotive parts. There were 12 or 15 presses all pounding away at their own timing. About every 40 seconds all the machines stuck simultaneously. I could feel it in the soles of my feet, and in my eardrums.

One of the office people was one of those anal people who use tape to mark out the exactly precise, proper location of their stapler, pencil holder, and coffee mug. For entertainment I would watch the various desk items march about the desk, and occasionally fall off on the floor. Blurr? Why would it blur? =^..^=

[Iowatech]

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I don't know, it wasn't a bad place (except for that parking sucked, and they didn't share) but it was unusual: a liquor warehouse. And it was huge, too, and kind of like an old dance hall, the office was on the stage and the cases of liquor were spread out where the audience would have been dancing. It was kind of a decrepit looking building from the outside, but the place was in pretty good shape on the inside.

[ZOOTECH]

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I serviced a SF7030 a couple of times that was in the office of a 'totally nude' strip club. The office had several security cameras of the stage and surrounding areas. Let me say, I made that drum change last a couple of hours, and I made sure the copy quality was spot on.

[CompyTech]

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I remember going to this house out in the country. Had to go into the master bedroom, step down in to the bathroom. And the office was in there along with the BH250. Had to move the machine out best I could to work on it.

Never seen even a home office in the bathroom before. I guess you can work while taking a dump idk.

[Phrag]

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I remember going to this house out in the country. Had to go into the master bedroom, step down in to the bathroom. And the office was in there along with the BH250. Had to move the machine out best I could to work on it.

Never seen even a home office in the bathroom before. I guess you can work while taking a dump idk.

Location, Location, Location. It's efficient I guess.