Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[ExXeroid]

OMG...I worked on that model. We sold a couple of them, and took them back just for that reason!

Ok maybe a Xerox guy can chime in, they had a model it may have been the 920, that came with a "Smoke Removal Device" it was basically a fire extinguisher. I heard stories but it was before my time at xerox.

[mark921]

I don't know if this model has been mentioned before because there are far too many pages in this thread to go through, but The Sharp SF740 is in my opinion a clear leader when it comes to crap copiers. What a legend. Must be about 25 years old now, if you haven't witnessed one of these babies in action you missed something special.

It looked like a coffin, and it had a set of bike chains with little clamps on inside that dragged the paper through (or not). No fuser unit, this bad boy had what can only be described as a toaster in the middle which heated up the paper as it passed through and fused the toner onto it. The toaster was insulated with what I suspect was some form of asbestos, this was so that if and when the paper jammed in the toaster, the resulting fire would not spread and burn the customer's office to the ground. It even came with a pair of giant 10 inch wooden tweezers with rubber pads on the end for the customer to pick out the charred paper from the toaster once the smoke had cleared.

You're not a real service engineer until you've done a service call on a copier that routinely catches fire and smokes out the customer's office as you're stood next to it looking like a complete tit.

OMG...I worked on that model. We sold a couple of them, and took them back just for that reason!

[david1972]

Crap copier

Seems when Toshiba put out a new series of copiers, half would be great, half pure junk.

Personnally, I found anything with a Minolta label (except maybe the 450Z- and that's going back some) or Xerox were well worth staying away from.


www.davidlerickson.com

the canon clc 200 color pos

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Yes that's the one + chasing every error code the machine could muster!

Yeah, that one was a big turd! It was a long time ago but even then the quality was crappy.

[Canonbloke]

Yes that's the one + chasing every error code the machine could muster!

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

If anyone ever worked on the Canon CLC1100's will know the true meaning of pain!

Is that the one where the paper would always get stuck to the drum and was slow as hell?

[Canonbloke]

If anyone ever worked on the Canon CLC1100's will know the true meaning of pain!

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

I'm starting to think anything with Toshiba on it...grrr

[slybot]

hey CF900 was quite decent machine, there are bigger craps on market.

nilak, lets face it the cf900 was a POS. we had one out in the field lasted just over 7k. bucket of snot

Anything that says panasonic on the front

[Infidel]

I don't know if this model has been mentioned before because there are far too many pages in this thread to go through, but The Sharp SF740 is in my opinion a clear leader when it comes to crap copiers.

LOL! I actually liked working on all of the Sharps with paper masters. I worked on the Ollivetti Version (1450?). The cool thing is that every office had a toaster oven. (apparently, judging from the food I always cleaned out of the fusing area)

I also don't know if anyone nominated my choice. I nominate the Savin 840. It was a VERY small, moving platen, liquid toner copier. (Yes, a personal copier with a gallon of liquid ink, what could go wrong?) In additon to being a general P.I.T.A. to work on, every call was a "dry start" that would destroy the drum. The Savin 840 was the founder of the "drum of the month club". Liquid copiers were good because of the heavy volume that they ran. SOHO users would run only enough copies to ensure that the toner fused the drum to the blade and when it powered on, CRUNCH! Another drum bites the dust! Of course since they were so small, people would try to carry them around and leave permanant trails of toner everywhere.

I also have flashbacks from the Mita 513z as others mentioned. Anyone remember the SCM 142? or the Royal 1200MC? The Minolta 450z (Can you say over-engineering?)? Minolta 101? And all of the Panasonic "Genesis" series.

[nilak]

hey CF900 was quite decent machine, there are bigger craps on market.

Ash

Xerox 5815

[spaniel ears]

Yeah, I was reading this post and I turned around and snapped a picture, lol. We got one in the other day from a customer. They had it in their storage room. Our sales manager has this great idea of putting it on the demo floor to show how far Sharps have come. I want to throw it in the dumpster where it belongs.

Well I never expected to clap eyes on one of THOSE again. Good find, and thanks a lot for the pic. I always used to find they worked best with medium sliced bread.