The first copier you serviced

[Rusty.Harris]

These were the first two copiers i worked on in 1981.
Some were liquid, most were dry toner. Hated that liquid & thermal paper!
Sharp SF-740 & SF-810. In the past 40+ years, I've worked on:
Sharp
Panasonic
Ricoh
HP
Brother
Epson
Xerox
Toshiba
Still working on Toshiba, HP, Epson, Xerox.


What were some of the first copiers you worked on?

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[slimslob]

These were the first two copiers i worked on in 1981.
Some were liquid, most were dry toner. Hated that liquid & thermal paper!
Sharp SF-740 & SF-810. In the past 40+ years, I've worked on:
Sharp
Panasonic
Ricoh
HP
Brother
Epson
Xerox
Toshiba
Still working on Toshiba, HP, Epson, Xerox.


What were some of the first copiers you worked on?

age1970_04_sf-740.png

age1970_03_sf-810.png

We sold Sharp about that same time. Do you remember which model used cold pressure fusing where the 2 steel rollers clicked together as the trail edge of the paper exited?

[slimslob]

I started in 1972. I worked on both copiers and dictation equipment. We were a full line Olivetti dealer. We also sold SCM 33 and 44, Apeco, Saxon and Old Town. And yes I did occasional have to repair 3M thermal paper machines. Back then everything except Xerox was liquid. Dispersant and concentrate, some used premix for a starter. Some of the Olivetti models were also avail as coin operated machines which we had in all the county libraries. When the non-Xerox plain paper machine came out we sold the Royal RBC1 under the Apeco in addition to Sharp.

[Larhal]

1974 Started as a Trained Tech with the Xerox 917, 660 plain paper copiers. Was a Xerox tech up to 1988.

[blackcat4866]

I guess I'm the baby here. In 1989 I was first trained on the Mita DC1255, but the oldest machines I saw were the Mita 900D, 800D, ... zinc oxide paper that wrinkled and yellowed, and went blank after a few years. I had (6) of those 900D's at home that I swapped parts around, until I didn't have a usable registration roller any more. Then I scrapped the whole lot of them. There for a while customers would open up a closet to show me a 900D: "Hey do you want this thing? It weighs a ton!"

[Calva70]

I first worked on a Savin copier in 1993 while I was in the Navy, can't remember the model. Then in 1996 while still in the Navy I worked on a Xerox machine on the ship, also not sure of the model but I think it was a 1060 or something like that. If anyone knows anything about the SSRE (Shipboard Service Reprographic Equipment) program the Navy had the Savin was a Class II at the time and the Xerox was a Class III. Didn't touch copiers after 1997 till 2013 when I got a job working for Xerox, and mostly worked on WC 56XX 57XX 58XX, plus a little Altalink B80XX. Then shifted jobs and was more SFPs and MFPs. Now on to Canon, Sharp and HP copiers as well as HP SFP and MFPs.

[kingarthur]

Mine was the Sharp SF-750. Was the SF-810 the one that used to "talk" . We had to turn it off on the only one we had - it annoyed the customer. One thing I remember about the SF-750, apart from the corona units being a PIA to restring, the corona units had a black coating inside, one of my colleagues was told to clean and rewire it - he was really pleased with himself - when he'd cleaned off the black coating....

[Saturn]

Canon NP 50 and NP 200 in 1979/80
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[Rusty.Harris]

We sold Sharp about that same time. Do you remember which model used cold pressure fusing where the 2 steel rollers clicked together as the trail edge of the paper exited?

SF-301 had the "crush" rollers as I remember. Hated those things!

[Rusty.Harris]

I started in 1972. I worked on both copiers and dictation equipment. We were a full line Olivetti dealer. We also sold SCM 33 and 44, Apeco, Saxon and Old Town. And yes I did occasional have to repair 3M thermal paper machines. Back then everything except Xerox was liquid. Dispersant and concentrate, some used premix for a starter. Some of the Olivetti models were also avail as coin operated machines which we had in all the county libraries. When the non-Xerox plain paper machine came out we sold the Royal RBC1 under the Apeco in addition to Sharp.

LOL, I used a couple bottles of clear dispersant to get me down the road once because I thought I didn't have enough gas in my service van.

[slimslob]

LOL, I used a couple bottles of clear dispersant to get me down the road once because I thought I didn't have enough gas in my service van.

Never tried that but did make a good weed killer.

[Hansoon]

1st machine I serviced doing a side job being a student, was a Renker Safir EP-404. Came on the market in 1970...... 😮 (YES! I'm THAT old!)

A ZnO coated roll paper machine using dispersant with added liquid toner concentrate. The machine was based on an American copier with the brand name VOSS.

Hans

[Madnhain]

I got a late start in the game. My first was a Sharp AR-150. Worked with Sharp all the way up through Polaris. Now I am almost exclusively KM and HP.

[kingarthur]

I got a late start in the game. My first was a Sharp AR-150. Worked with Sharp all the way up through Polaris. Now I am almost exclusively KM and HP.

I remember the AR-150, had a customer who had a black line down the page, when scanning from the glass, found a massive dead fly against the lamp - no idea how it got in there

[blackcat4866]

I continued to use Dispersant as a cleaning solvent for a decade afterwards. When I could not find it anymore, I switched to paraffin lamp oil. It's just as good and does not damage drum surfaces, just a little oily.