Which copier was the biggest piece of crap ever?

[geordie40]

HP Edgeline range, 2 week training course to look at a giant inkjet tumble dryer!!!, head problems, inkjet cartridge contamination, web wipes etc. OH and the gigantic firmware file and it would take about 3-4 hrs to force firmware onto machine only to find it was still not working. Complete basket case of a machine

[speedtek]

Any Konica Minolta that ends with an E! These have been the biggest piles of crap I've seen since Ricoh thought it was a great idea to use gel ink instead of toner.

I used to tell people that the "e" stood for "Ehhhhhh maybe you should buy something else".



Now I yearn for those machines now that we have the C368/C308's dropping like flies...

[Wilf]

old school, Canon GP215. newer Toshiba 2500c.

[harleyrider]

Any SAVIN liquid from the late 70's 750,770etc. Then to make them even worse the great Landa retro kit.

[fshead]

Any SAVIN liquid from the late 70's 750,770etc. Then to make them even worse the great Landa retro kit.

i use to rebuild the old 770s and 780s for an independant sales guy and they ran much better than the dry toner machines i serviced for minolta and sharp
prior.
the early kits with "bunny brushes and filters that if they overtoned you had a long day ahead of you

[wester]

Any SAVIN liquid from the late 70's 750,770etc. Then to make them even worse the great Landa retro kit.

Ahhhhh those were the days

[mitchvr]

Dont know if its already been mentioned but the Toshiba 281c and equiv machines where horrible.
They did a Great print but they loved to strip black developer drive gears

[NeoMatrix]

Ahhhhh those were the days

Makes me want to b!tch slap Orson Welles for all those Nasuha Copier add's on TV.

[lenovos]

I think it was the DC-161 and DC-162re that if you got a paper jammed in the registration section, the only way to get it out was to scratch the shit out of the 40K yield drum. Yeah! That and cleaning charge coronas.

I remember billing a church customer for a new drum on a DC-131. The next day the enduser got a drum wrap. To get it out, she removed the primary and cleaning corona units, bend a nice loop of coathanger, and fished out all the little penny sized bits of paper. She (and I!!!) was so disappointed when she saw all the scratches she had made in her one-day-old drum. I had quite a time explaining that drum warranty does not cover scratching with a coathanger. =^..^=

It used to be pretty common for a customer to scratch a drum, the 131 reinstalling the MC sometimes did the trick.

[Coptech]

I remember the Mita 131 series. When everything was perfect, they were on the ragged edge of working. Adjusting sliding magnets on the scanner to correct image problems.