The first copier you serviced

[Larhal]

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.

As I Recall Dispersant was Isopar M. It i still available under that name if you look hard enough.

[Mako]

I started out working on Olivetti and IBM Typewriters. The first copier I worked on was the Canon PC25 around 1990. Also worked on some Mita machines around that time as well.

[brent]

this post is awesome. my dad was a dealer in 1980 I remember the minolta ep 101 and all the liquid machines that were horrible but they worked.. lol
he spilled on a customer floor and I always heard that story. I personally have worked on the ep 450z a lot or the ep 300 when I started in 1992 we stil had some left
maybe it was a ep 310 but that was long ago
brent

[Scott]

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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We sound alot alike , doing this since 1983

[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 I think. Blue color. There was another one I think was a 330?
I remember I had a tech ask me if it was ok to adjust the pressure spring if he had wrinkles.
I said whatever you do, DON'T adjust the pressure springs.
Glad those things disappeared quickly!

[richs]

Canon NP 50 and NP 200 in 1979/80
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I think those were my first machines too.

[djbass]

Started around 2000 working for a Canon dealer. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, let alone 25 years ago, so the models escape me. I only remember they were all analogue machines that had the one big belt for the document feeder that dragged the pages over the platen glass and toner was dumped from a bottle into the hopper and the finisher had a worm screw driving individual output bins.

We also had a colour machine (I think) that had a transfer drum made from two clear plastic sheets wrapped around a cylinder that paper adhered to statically. I remember I hated working on it, and it was down at least once a day with jams.

[dalewb74]

well i am still young compared to some lol i didnt come along until 2010. but i started out a kyocera dealership. i worked on fs1810, km 3060, and others along that time frame. and i have worked on a good many since. no longer with kyocera, but still get stuck on one from time to time. now i mostly deal with lexmarks, ricohs, hps, and brothers. oh, joy the fun i don't have lol. i guess i will give an example of how young i am. i once was sent to work on one. dont remember the make, nor model. but the top slide across for making copies. similar to the photo in the first post here. and it opened like a clam shell. i had never seen one before. thought there was a hair stuck inside the machine. but i couldn't get it out... uh yeah it was the corona wire that had broken. i had never seen nor even heard of it before. lol

[Rusty.Harris]

I remember once, I thought I wasn't going to make it back to the office, dead of winter. Took two bottle of dispersant and poured it in the gas tank to get me
back to the office (company provided van). I think it was 1982 or so?