Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[time2fly]

I've worked on Panasonic, Canon, and Konica Minolta out of the three Konica Minolta are the worst at least the ones I worked on. Di550, CF2002-3102 actually the CF3102 aren't to bad Di250-351 the worst one is the BizHub Pro c500.

[scepter2112]

I agree with 1087 about the 8090/2280 being a BIG pos but does anyone recall working on older analog panasonics, i.e., FP series? 1530,3007,3030,5060? They ran dirty and had an infinite amount of cold solder connections?

The Genesis series, clutches and chain driven Duplex taught me Patients

[Tim C]

Most of you won't remember this one. It's a Dinasour Called the RBC IV.
Royal Bond Copier put this BEAST out in the late 70's. Unreal issues. This thing had a huge wrap around Master Sheet. with an Oven for a fuser. For that baked in freshness. Many of OMG fire jams. Electrical problems out the Wazzu. This was a Floor Model, you could almost climb inside.

[mitchl]

Anything that says Panasucktic on it and another real bundle of joy was the amazing Konica 1290, what a freaking heap! Anybody remember the Saxon liquids OMF they where shirt ruining monsters, what a nightmare or how about the Saxon PPC 1?

[leroyal]

Anything that says Panasucktic on it and another real bundle of joy was the amazing Konica 1290, what a freaking heap! Anybody remember the Saxon liquids OMF they where shirt ruining monsters, what a nightmare or how about the Saxon PPC 1?

Yeah, Mitchl, did lots of Saxons & SCM's.

You're dating yourself, bro. How about Dennison Copiers? Standard, Economist, CopyMaster, DVC, CVC, BC-14, BC-28.

Saxons & Dennisons were why I always wore cheap, white, short-sleeve shirts and black pants. (still do!)

[leroyal]

Kyocera is striving for this honor with their FS-c5016,c5025, & c5030......oops,I forgot they renamed them, EcoShit Color Printers. Toner blowin' sumbitches.

[mitchl]

Yeah, Mitchl, did lots of Saxons & SCM's.

You're dating yourself, bro. How about Dennison Copiers? Standard, Economist, CopyMaster, DVC, CVC, BC-14, BC-28.

Saxons & Dennisons were why I always wore cheap, white, short-sleeve shirts and black pants. (still do!)

Remember the sediment piles in the bottom of the tanks? Yeah Leroyal your right I really sort of gave away my age here's another on the Remington liquid which was a saxon but was marketed by a electric shaver company.... Go figure!

[techspec]

Its probaly been mentioned here before but the Ricoh MP5000 must take the award for being the poorest of the poor No other machine out there can touch this one!

[Hose1cook]

Toshiba BD-601 as mentioned a fire hazard.
Toshiba BD-909 a big old piece of crap
Remington 501 or some such model, another smoke and flames box
Canon NP-5000 the first console they put out, a big dog
Dennison Bond Copier, a first class toner blower
anything Apeco

[leroyal]

Toshiba BD-601 as mentioned a fire hazard.
Toshiba BD-909 a big old piece of crap
Remington 501 or some such model, another smoke and flames box
Canon NP-5000 the first console they put out, a big dog
Dennison Bond Copier, a first class toner blower
anything Apeco

Hehe,

Yeah, the Dennison BC-28 and BC-14 with a 6 lb. drum,

I still have 2 drum containers.

[techspec]

After this past week I'm adding the Ricoh MP4000/MP5000 to this list:-

Twelve months ago I never thought you could make the NAD based 35/45 cpm engine any worse.

But they haven't half proved me wrong:-

The dev and toner has never been particularly great on this family, but this latest version is shocking,even with the Dev/Charge bias changes you are lucky if you get 50k before it overtones itself to death.

And why oh why did they put an oil web on the fuser? The 3035/3045 didn't have them and didn't particularly suffer for it. More to the point though why did they have to put such a fiddly one on when changing the web in the MP7500 is a five minute job? And why do one in three MP5000 web units have a seized alan screw so you can't get the damn thing apart without taking a hacksaw to it?

Why did they combine the PCU and Dev unit into a single unit, when all this achieves is making the tech spend another five minutes farting around over what he used to spend on a 3045.

I wish I could load every single one of these sh*tboxes into a rocket and fire it into the sun.

I've bought the rocket, you round them up. If there's any room can I put a few MPC1500sp in there.

[mtech]

Lets face it. They all are just piece's of crap. That is why we all love/ hate them. They make us money- that is good (love) they make us crazy trying to keep them running-that is bad (hate). But the chase is a wonderful thing.

[Shadow1]

Lets face it. They all are just piece's of crap. That is why we all love/ hate them. They make us money- that is good (love) they make us crazy trying to keep them running-that is bad (hate). But the chase is a wonderful thing.

Have you ever thought of seeking psychiatric help?

Seriously.

[mtech]

I went to get help but I didn't like the way their copier stared at me!

[Pandy]

I totally agree with you on those heaps! The old 5570 and 4490 Ricoh fuser oil/analog and 7570s sucked too!! Does anyone remember the FX10???? Damn!!! That could be the biggest POS ever!!! The faxes from that era were such a joke the developer issues we battled with tape and all sorts of bubble gum fixes.