You won't believe it........

[Zeldaman]

[D_L_P]

Re: You won't believe it........

A working analog copier, wow. I remember walking people through closing the jam door over the phone because it was common issue with those. They were descent analog machines though. Just shocked you had parts!!

[brent]

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Are you kidding? Forgot about those fat motors driving the whole machine through a central chain? lol

Me too went those days to my customers wearing a shirt and necktie (sometimes I still do.......) not only once the tie got stuck in the running chain. Stupid me.....

@Brent: Do you recall the EP-550Z and 650Z with those selenium drums costing a fortune and having the need to polish them regularly by hand?

Hans

@hansoon yes I seen those before never got the pleasure of working on them.. but I remember the ep 450 z 2 things.. one is if you replaced the drum and forgot to twist the caked toner waste box. the coil would snap.. been there done that on a couple new ones. actually it was one of the last ones Minolta had in stock.. the orange type drum.. lol
also we used to have to tape 2 quarters on the transport to get better cleaning pressure lastly the c boards were located right under the fuser maybe it was the power supply.. either way..
sometimes one board would not work in a certain machine but they would work in another. man those were the days

I cant believe that was almost 25 years ago.. you really got me thinking about the old day.. thank you!!

brent

[xring1958]

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ok. so since we are showing our age.. I dodged the ep 101 liquid toner machines..

brent

I worked on both the EP-101 and 201 and the infamous SF-501 at least that is what I think it was called Blue case dry toner estat with pressure fusing. Kept breaking scanner drive cables

[allan]

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The digital age made life a lot simpler. Thinking back on what the process was to make 30 stapled sets of 30 double sided pages on a Ricoh 65 ppm analog machine. The poor original went around and around 60 times. The duplex had to stack all the odd pages. It had only 10 output bins and would need to be emptied to continue. A jam caused suicidal tendencies....

Ricoh used the same frame for the first digital machines and it still looks similar 30 years later...

[darry1322]

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ok. so since we are showing our age.. anyone remember the ep 450z the clutches in the rear of the machine? lol


brent

Remember them? We've still got one sitting in our Demo room.