Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[j morton]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

I had the top cover off one the other day sat watcjing the ITB, called for one colour copy, it sat auto grading, and making patches on the ITB took ages all for one copy

Yes, the iR C3100 is very near the top of my list also. I responded to a service call for blank copies one time - opened up the right door and the ITB fell out of the machine and onto the floor. Not sure which took longer, replacing the belt or to stop laughing!

[onlygreatcopiers]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

Ricoh 7770 ~ 70 cpm CLAMSHELL design. Who actually thought a 70 cpm machine was a good idea?

[igi]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

The one we cannot fix!

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

What about the Xerox XDL33\XDL22. Waste toner was collected inside the drum and when it was weighed down the whole drive system would make snapping sounds.

[doug94550]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

The Canon CLC 500. What ever engineer designed that should, well, we just really need to have a talk.

[balazs.fried]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

Aficio 1224C gets my vote.

Crap and inconsisient copy quality.
Painfully slow.
Generally unpleasant to work on.

Cheap and nasty.

I would like to join and give a short list of parts which are frquently went wrong on them:
this machine was a horrible b*tch from the moment it has rolled down from the factory line.

development units are crap
drum unit is too big and too pricy
toner cartidge chips fails even on original cartridges
drum cleanin unit clogs
charge corona
waste toner bottles are too small
drive mehanism brakes down all times
fusing oils supply is horrible
fusing belt is too weak
All clutches has to be changed 4-5 times durring the life of the machine
scanner frame is too weak and scanner hangs down by time-> lines on copies
paper trays are flimsy
colours are weak, washed, faded...

[Akitu]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

I'm officially submitting the MXC311 as one of the biggest POS out there. So bad, Sharp has discontinued it. Anyone who has been involved with these machines knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

[harleyrider]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

tonerleak is right on. Starting with the Savin 750 on up. You haven't lived untill you have cleaned a shit load of toner tanks in a solvent tank all day.

[banginbishop]

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im adding the ricoh mpc6000 and 6001 POS. Bitch to work on, labour intensive and as reliable as a pinocho telling the truth. Ive had 2 this week and they are S**T boxes. The smaller mpc range is good but this bag of crap aint worth a dump in a field. Designed to piss you off by taking most of your working day, just by cleaning it up and after putting it back together its still give s**t copies. The dev set up is w**k, the charge rollers are w**k need i go on.

[Zackuth]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

I'm tossing out the T/A 250ci-552ci machines.

[Jamesu]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

Canon 3180Ci

Stupid rotary system.

[tonerleak]

Re: Savin Liquids v-35 with a color unit

What were people with a white carpet thinking?

You also had to be a plumber to work on these POS!

[tonerleak]

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

The Savin 840 followed by the Savin 9040/50i followed by all other liquid toner copiers were the biggest pieces of crap ever produced by mankind.

Pretty sad when you have to show up at services calls with a pack of Kimwipes to mop up the floor/macine cavity,and then with the 9040/50is they

added fuser oil which would leak onto the floor or mix with the liquid toner and start to make foam in the cleaning unit. Good riddance!!

Re: Which copier was the biggest peice of crap ever?

Any Copier with RMFD (ReManufactured) next to the Serial # Example Xerox 1065.
Any Tech will tell you it stands for Ruin My F**king Day

great quote, agreed, anything with RMFD was crap, but the xerox 5046F was crap from start to finish.
i found the 1065 a fairly nice box until the RMFD's came out. and the 5100 was good after all the upgrades were done, until again they went to RMFD them.

Re: Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

KM 2030!
Taskalfa 750c (the Toshiba-Cera)!

Ugh!