Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Here you go then, a blast from the past. Try not to run out of the room screaming.

Odd...for some reason I thought it would have been bigger.

[ZOOTECH]

I have the photo as background so that every time I see it, I have a big grin , because I never had to work on them.

[Harjo]

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.

[ZOOTECH]

Thanks for that photo (I've set it as my desktop background). I can see that it's a recent photo with the MX machines in the background.

[Harjo]

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.

Here you go then, a blast from the past. Try not to run out of the room screaming.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

sounds like a real fiery beast from hell...

[spaniel ears]

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.

[ESG]

A really crappy copier

the Toshiba E-Studio 3511c and the 4511c, I think they were nade to work in a shop area not at a customer's site.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Sharp's AR-BC color series. Those machines are terrible.

I never had to service one of them but the quality of the color was bad in my opinion.

[bdcrandall13]

Sharp's AR-BC color series. Those machines are terrible.

[abscopiers]

Canon IR-C3100 / like a meat grinder, lol

[copyruss]

Mita 513z. The Service Bulletins book was bigger than the Service Manual. Almost tanked Mita. The final modification was they came out with the 5055, basically a fully modified 513 - was still a terrible machine.

[Canuck]

Anything that used fuser lube, fuser oil or fuser agent. The old analog machine. Clamshells were bad but they didn't have the staplers or sorters we had on some mid volume over at X. X 5046 was the most unreliable and poorly designed machine I ever work on.

If you walked by a 5046 and looked at it wrong or farted it would error or jam...piece of junk....been a while

[Canuck]

Dude the 1048 was worse. That duplex tray was a nightmare, anything that had to deal with two sided was a nightmare in that machine. That is why most guys hated the "B52s" did you ever work on a B52?

3100 Xerox...orange tank.....microswitch nightmare

[Canuck]

hey, did anyone work on the XEROX 5322 series? early to late 90's...

Mono component garbage....couldn't get a black copy....just dark gray