Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[chubblies]

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

A few to name.
Minolta EP410Z feed clutches, 4230 jams and clutches, 4300,5400 crap vertical duplex. Minolta loved using incandescent bulbs to sense paper empty too, which used to blow more than a hooker
Sharp 770 with the toaster, SF7850 rotating cassette, 9400 fuser, 9800 everything, 83/8450 editing blank lamp array cost, 2116-2120 what a joke, ARC172 LED colour. AR161 and AR5132, digital pieces of crap. Anything Sharp makes with semi-circular feed rollers is shite

Saying that, all of these pieces of shit have kept us all employed by going wrong so not all bad!

[Phil B.]

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

anything Xerox

[Lagonda]

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

At the moment the new range of HP A3 copiers are heading to the top of the charts with a bullet. The re-badge Samsung laser has backgrounding problems and the Pagewide inkjet........well its an inkjet, say no more.
HP's support is 2/10's of 4/5's of SFA. No service manuals or parts manual and if you eventually find a part number the part is never in stock.
We never used the acronym DOA before we started selling HP copiers.

[Mdkoh]

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

I had another bloody MP C305 in the back of the car the other day. I parked up in town and went to visit a client when I came back I discovered that the back window had been smashed and a second MP C305 had been stuffed in there.

I cant agree with you more. I just started working on these about 2 years ago. Its apparent that the engineering team that designed it has never been a field service technician. I 'm thinking that it should be required that each design engineer have no less than 2 years field experience before designing anything. If they only knew the pains and struggles we have to endure because of their inability to understand the term "ease of service".

[cpjim]

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

I once had someone break into my shop, so they could bring back a sharp 2020.

[Mdkoh]

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

Well, damn!
Tell us how you really feel!

It was obviously a readers Digest version of how he felt. I'm having to work on these more and more.....lets say my therapy time has increased.

[BLADE]

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

just about anything starting with a 2

[MjarbarV2.0]

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

just about anything starting with a 2

I was going to say they can't all be that bad then I remember the GP215 with the sharp edges and fixing film assembly! =/

[BLADE]

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

I was going to say they can't all be that bad then I remember the GP215 with the sharp edges and fixing film assembly! =/

and the feed gear box!

[zoraldinho]

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

switching Canon NP-6521


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[copyman35]

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

Canon np6016, marketed as the champ, re nick named by techs as the chump.


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[Rich]

[fshead]

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

Right now its the Ricoh MP C305. This pox box has just shat the second toner feed pump while its still on my work bench being tuned up.

The team that designed this pile of vultures vomit should have their genitals inserted in a rusty rabbit trap.

It is so odd as I started looking at the mpc305 s to buy from my lease return supplier and asked my local dealer who i buy parts from.

[bsm2]

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

Mita DC513Z Copier

[fshead]

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

It is so odd as I started looking at the mpc305 s to buy from my lease return supplier and asked my local dealer who i buy parts from.

jumped the gun

as i was saying
It is so odd as I started looking at the mpc305 s to buy from my lease return supplier and asked my local dealer who i buy parts from and
the shop guy who fixes demos and stuff that comes in LOVES THAT SERIES.......
i find the 4k color toner yield a joke after the mpc300 was 8k.....how they sold them is beyond me
I was like are you sure and he confirmed he thinks it s a great box...........
I put out just a few,cheap low meter ones and if they call I will see...