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  • copyman
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    • Sep 2005
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    #1

    C258 another strange issue

    Been getting a lot of weird issues lately. Customer sent me the attached pic. I loaded up the truck with drums, dev units, fuser & trans belt. When I show up next morning prints are perfect! As bad as the print was not sure how the machine could have corrected itself?
    If these issues keep happening I'm going to hire a Priest to do exorcisms
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  • tsbservice
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    • May 2007
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    #2
    Re: C258 another strange issue

    What's wrong with people 😂 can't find a single customer to scan to pdf and attach proper samples instead all send cra. phone pictures and even with glasses I can't see them.
    From mess pictures you've received it looks like they print with a lot of heavy coverage maybe on cardboards even without setting proper thick paper type and they had paper jammed then fuser is bad for a while until it clears itself... something like that.
    A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
    Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

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    • Synthohol
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      Re: C258 another strange issue

      ive seen similar when the plastic wrap is on a transparency and it wraps on the fuser and customer removes it after placing a call.
      We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two.
      The medication helps though...

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      • copyman
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        Re: C258 another strange issue

        Agree, one of the hardest things is "interviewing" the customer trying to get to the truth. I know there has to be more to this story but I couldn't get them to fess up!

        The pic was from phone, 1st one they sent was in a format that wouldn't even open and they had to convert to jpeg and that even sucked!

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        • techsxge
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          #5
          Re: C258 another strange issue

          Bruh i just saw your post and the picture send by your customer.
          Either that machine is acutally cursed (Does it Print out the Number 6 all over it by any chance?) or you've got one of these customers who missuse the printer in a unthinkable way and then report it as "just started to do this"

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          • kingarthur
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            • Feb 2008
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            #6
            Re: C258 another strange issue

            Their office has obviously been built on an ancient burial site - you should see the shock on customers faces when I tell them that
            Tip for the day; Treat every problem as your dog would.....If you cant eat it or f*ck it....then p*ss on it & walk away...

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            • Kapral
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              • Oct 2012
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              #7
              Re: C258 another strange issue

              Moist paper or the client is lying and didn't set up thick paper correctly.

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              • Tech09
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                #8
                Re: C258 another strange issue

                Originally posted by Kapral
                Moist paper or the client is lying and didn't set up thick paper correctly.

                *gasp* customers lie?!?
                "But it's ALWAYS worked before"
                "It constantly jams!" - prints out a management list showing 2 jams in the last month...
                "It prints too slow"
                "I've never had to do that before!"
                "Construction paper? pfft, we never run construction paper through the copier"

                Sorry, rant over.

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                • femaster
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                  • May 2011
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                  #9
                  Re: C258 another strange issue

                  Originally posted by Tech09
                  "Construction paper? pfft, we never run construction paper through the copier"
                  Unfortunately, nearly all the schools we have run construction paper. Not only does it eat up the machine, but it creates endless service calls because they can't grasp the concept of using a custom sized paper through the bypass. "It jams all the time". Yeah, because the 9x12 construction paper is detected as A4, which is going to cause jams. Use the programmed custom size paper button like you have been shown how to do 35 times already!
                  Last edited by femaster; 11-18-2023, 11:38 PM.
                  A Ricoh Service Tech for 7 year. A Konica Minolta Service Tech for 7 years. Now, KM service manager for 4 years.
                  My Ricoh knowledge is slowly dwindling away at this point. Many things have been lost to time...

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                  • tsbservice
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                    Re: C258 another strange issue

                    Originally posted by femaster
                    Unfortunately, nearly all the schools we have run construction paper. Not only does it eat up the machine, but it creates endless service calls because they can't grasp the concept of using a custom sized paper through the bypass. "It jams all the time". Yeah, because the 9x12 construction paper is detected as A4, which is is goingto cause jams. Use the programmed custom size paper button like you have been shown how to do 35 times already!
                    Remember, those people should be teaching our children. Scary enough.
                    Btw teaching teacher is mission impossible 😂
                    A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
                    Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

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                    • femaster
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                      #11
                      Re: C258 another strange issue

                      Originally posted by tsbservice
                      Remember, those people should be teaching our children. Scary enough.
                      Btw teaching teacher is mission impossible 😂
                      I've so very thankful that my wife takes on the job of homeschooling our children. I see every day just how "dumb" teachers are/can be, and it just amazes me that any of these kids know anything by the time they graduate.
                      A Ricoh Service Tech for 7 year. A Konica Minolta Service Tech for 7 years. Now, KM service manager for 4 years.
                      My Ricoh knowledge is slowly dwindling away at this point. Many things have been lost to time...

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                      • copyman
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                        #12
                        Re: C258 another strange issue

                        Originally posted by tsbservice
                        Remember, those people should be teaching our children. Scary enough.
                        Btw teaching teacher is mission impossible 😂
                        Nothing has changed being in this biz 40+ years, the following is start of a list of worst office equipment users:

                        1) school teachers

                        2) car sales people

                        Feel free to add to list .....

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                        • tsbservice
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                          Re: C258 another strange issue

                          Originally posted by copyman
                          Nothing has changed being in this biz 40+ years, the following is start of a list of worst office equipment users:

                          1) school teachers

                          2) car sales people

                          Feel free to add to list .....
                          3) lawyers/insurance companies/notaries
                          4) construction workers
                          A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
                          Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

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                          • tsbservice
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                            #14
                            Re: C258 another strange issue

                            Originally posted by femaster
                            I've so very thankful that my wife takes on the job of homeschooling our children. I see every day just how "dumb" teachers are/can be, and it just amazes me that any of these kids know anything by the time they graduate.
                            I think your wife is taking harder job so you have enough time to be knowledgeable and responsible service manager
                            Honestly I'm all in being in field all day long instead of doing sheet work.
                            A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
                            Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

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                            • Don N.
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                              • Nov 2011
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                              #15
                              Re: C258 another strange issue

                              Originally Posted by copyman
                              Nothing has changed being in this biz 40+ years, the following is start of a list of worst office equipment users:

                              1) school teachers

                              2) car sales people

                              Feel free to add to list .....


                              Originally posted by tsbservice
                              3) lawyers/insurance companies/notaries
                              4) construction workers
                              Something just changes when you go from a small, rural school district to a big one.
                              My vote for worst goes to union teachers. They believe when they decorate the bizhub with a rainbow & call it by the right pronouns, it can actually be non-binary.
                              What's the saying? "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

                              As for liars (car sales), same as apartment mgm't co's. Strictly COD or we rent. Late or no pmt = pick up the machine.

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