Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[wester]

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Any SAVIN liquid from the late 70's 750,770etc. Then to make them even worse the great Landa retro kit.

Ahhhhh those were the days

[mitchvr]

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Dont know if its already been mentioned but the Toshiba 281c and equiv machines where horrible.
They did a Great print but they loved to strip black developer drive gears

[NeoMatrix]

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Ahhhhh those were the days

Makes me want to b!tch slap Orson Welles for all those Nasuha Copier add's on TV.

[lenovos]

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I think it was the DC-161 and DC-162re that if you got a paper jammed in the registration section, the only way to get it out was to scratch the shit out of the 40K yield drum. Yeah! That and cleaning charge coronas.

I remember billing a church customer for a new drum on a DC-131. The next day the enduser got a drum wrap. To get it out, she removed the primary and cleaning corona units, bend a nice loop of coathanger, and fished out all the little penny sized bits of paper. She (and I!!!) was so disappointed when she saw all the scratches she had made in her one-day-old drum. I had quite a time explaining that drum warranty does not cover scratching with a coathanger. =^..^=

It used to be pretty common for a customer to scratch a drum, the 131 reinstalling the MC sometimes did the trick.

[Coptech]

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I remember the Mita 131 series. When everything was perfect, they were on the ragged edge of working. Adjusting sliding magnets on the scanner to correct image problems.

[blindjoe]

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Have to agree with techpat. Especially the 2020/2120/2116/2118 models.

[Lagonda]

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Makes me want to b!tch slap Orson Welles for all those Nasuha Copier add's on TV.

They got their moneys worth out of those ads, right up to when the Nashua name disappeared in Aust when you said "Nashua" someone said "No 1 in plain paper copiers" Not bad since he died in 1985.

[NeoMatrix]

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They got their moneys worth out of those ads, right up to when the Nashua name disappeared in Aust when you said "Nashua" someone said "No 1 in plain paper copiers" Not bad since he died in 1985.

Ha... Yeah every one would attempt parody Orson Welles deep low vocals <add bass tone> "No1 in plain paper copiers".

I remember wrecking a few sets of good cloths working on Nashua liquid machines. I was happy when the last one was removed from the field.

Long time ago..., how time fly's....

[lfruean]

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More crap from this range of machines - press roller drive gears

Is this for the MPC5503 series? The exploding ITB has happened to me 3 times and shredded parts of the ITB would go absolutely everywhere and get into dev's destroy the fuser etc. So it would basically mean replacement of ITB, fuser and all PCDU's. Extreme cost blow out for service department. Ridiculous!

[Iowatech]

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Is this for the MPC5503 series? The exploding ITB has happened to me 3 times and shredded parts of the ITB would go absolutely everywhere and get into dev's destroy the fuser etc. So it would basically mean replacement of ITB, fuser and all PCDU's. Extreme cost blow out for service department. Ridiculous!

Heh, that sounds like the exploding sorter Lanier had back in the analog days, although it would spew parts outside of the machine.

[prado]

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Heh, that sounds like the exploding sorter Lanier had back in the analog days, although it would spew parts outside of the machine.

Aficio 340/450 and MPC6501/7501

[Lagonda]

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Aficio 340/450 and MPC6501/7501

We traded in our last MP C7501 yesterday It was one of the happiest days of my life! I'm now going to have a workshop clear out and chuck a couple of grands worth of parts in the bin.

[BLADE]

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We traded in our last MP C7501 yesterday It was one of the happiest days of my life! I'm now going to have a workshop clear out and chuck a couple of grands worth of parts in the bin.

at least the paper came out nice and flat

[Lagonda]

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at least the paper came out nice and flat

Haven't seen one yet but I believe the new '04 series comes with a de-curl roller built into the fuser.

[Copier Whisperer]

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The 3M machine that used the pink tissue paper and special white transfer paper to make a copy. First 'copier' I remember.

Ah yes, the old model 209. The first copier I was trained on. It used a pink intermediate paper and coated white paper. It ran at a blazing 4 copies per minute and sounded like a wash machine.