Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[barrylee66]

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canon 1215 or 1218 by far the biggest pile ever

[yknot]

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Ricoh mpc7500

[8050]

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Sharp fuser units (especially MX753N) 5 heating elements, and the wiring...AAARGH!

[Exok]

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Savin V-35 with color bank, duplex unit and all the bells and whistles, in the middle of summer, in a back room someplace in a school with no air conditioning during a heat wave.

[Shadow1]

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is this the longest thread on this site?

Nope - word association game is followed by funny joke of the day.

[nmfaxman]

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is this the longest thread on this site?

[JR2ALTA]

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Any geezers out there remember the 3M Secretary 3 (777 & 787)? A scanner driven by a giant cam, dozens of microswitches, a dozen or so relays, paper fed perpendicular to scanner direction, monocomponent toner using a mag roller that "simulated" developer, and a fuser that used a soft silicone-coated tube that was lubed with silicone oil supplied by a plastic reservoir roller with a row of little holes. If the customer left a jam in the machine at night, the floor would be coated with very slick, clear silicone oil the next morning. Many a customer (and tekkie) did the old scooby-doo and found themselves on their ass walking up to that machine.

Wow..

I'd bow in your presence.

[Copier Whisperer]

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Any geezers out there remember the 3M Secretary 3 (777 & 787)? A scanner driven by a giant cam, dozens of microswitches, a dozen or so relays, paper fed perpendicular to scanner direction, monocomponent toner using a mag roller that "simulated" developer, and a fuser that used a soft silicone-coated tube that was lubed with silicone oil supplied by a plastic reservoir roller with a row of little holes. If the customer left a jam in the machine at night, the floor would be coated with very slick, clear silicone oil the next morning. Many a customer (and tekkie) did the old scooby-doo and found themselves on their ass walking up to that machine.

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Minolta 4230. An engineer had to go out on dem incase it got a paper jam at the reg rollers as the drum/dev unit had to come out & the reg guide too. Size detect arms warped & caused the scan cables to come off.. The list of faults go on & on & on..

[rawkstar]

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samsung, which one? all of them!

stick to the tvs, the copier sucks.

[mrobe48942]

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Currently the Canon IRA 2020 range. Loathsome and unreliable.

[Shadow1]

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Toshiba.. the ES -550 with about 2 mil copies the devl. Unit would leak in the back down into all of the feed sections clutches Ect..

All the bigger Ricoh's do this if you let the Dev unit get more than about 3.5Mil on them. We just learned to swap a new unit into them before they start drooling.

[Jules Winfield]

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Anyone remember the Mita Ai 3030? Oye vey...

[Techman1000]

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Having been in the business over 30 years the savin liquid were pretty bad!

[its_just_a_copier]

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Minolta EP5400. Completely driven by crapy, hard to get at clutches, etc.

Those are the machines I cut my teeth on... not tech friendly at all! Spring Clutches!!