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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by 10871087 View Post
    OMG... the top and bottom were connected by a cable with no external connector so to bring it into an office for a demo required the removal of the top and back of the printer part and the connection of about 10 connectors onto 3 or 4 different boards. If all went well it took about a half hour to setup with the customer thinking it was broken because why else would you take it apart so much just to plug it in.
    I think the guy who designed that piece of shit ended up committing hari kari. Or at least he should have...
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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by charm5496 View Post
    the Canon NP-4080 had a color cartridge CD unit changer that held 4 seperate color cartridges and would rotate them in and out as the customer selected for copying....This thing would give me nightmares it was such a mechanical disaster!!!!
    Oh the horrors!

    I had precisely one, at a carpet cleaning company. I think it used about 50 photo interrupters.

    Funny, I think it was called a "CD Changer" (color developer), long before there were Compact Discs.
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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jules Winfield View Post
    Mita DC-2055 series with the editing tablet on the top of the platen cover. You used the little plastic stylus that came with it to select areas of the copies to mask out. Totally useless function. Never ever saw it used...
    Canon had the same thing on the NP3000 and NP4000 series machines. Yuk!
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    Internet Faxing - Does any know what it was supposed to do?
    Who wants a Hulka Burger?

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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sgt. Hulka View Post
    Internet Faxing - Does any know what it was supposed to do?
    They call it "email" now...
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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Just had a scratch around at the back of the grey cells and came up with Tape Markers on copyprinters. It was suppose to shoot a couple of inches of paper tape between job batches as they hit the output tray.
    Why? who knows!
    At least 50% of IT is a solution looking for a problem.

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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Hemlock View Post
    Most WTF-ish: a tractor feed system for some of the old Oce' doc feeders. Designed to take the old line printer paper (green & white alternating lines, holes down the sides, continuous feed) and allow you to copy it to cut sheet. Only saw one out in the wild, never saw it used - probably a good thing.
    Canon had a tractor feed add-on accessory for feeding continuous greenbar originals, on the NP-6060 and NP-6085. The sucker was fast, and fed well for the most part. But few techs knew that they had their own optics, so there were a lot of callbacks for dark copies, tractor feed only.
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    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jules Winfield View Post
    Mita DC-2055 series with the editing tablet on the top of the platen cover. You used the little plastic stylus that came with it to select areas of the copies to mask out. Totally useless function. Never ever saw it used...
    Those were kinda fun to play with once you knew what you were doing. But, yes, not much use for it.
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    5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by charm5496 View Post
    the Canon NP-4080 had a color cartridge CD unit changer that held 4 seperate color cartridges and would rotate them in and out as the customer selected for copying....This thing would give me nightmares it was such a mechanical disaster!!!!
    That, and the color filters in the lens cover to do "color separations". It made cleaning mirrors 4 & 5 particularly difficult to clean, and was really easy to screw up. =^..^=
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    Re: Unusual machines / why did they build it?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sgt. Hulka View Post
    Internet Faxing - Does any know what it was supposed to do?
    It does exactly what the name implies - sends and receives faxes over TCP/IP.

    I have one customer who is a medical supplier. They have 5 offices over a 3 county area, but they are positioned in such a way that no one office can call another locally.

    It should be noted that being a medical supplier, they are subject to the same HIPPA compliance rules as any other health service provider, so they are under a bit of scrutiny. (They can actually be sued for malpractice, just like a doctor.)

    They send hundreds of faxes every day between their offices. Their phone bills were ridiculous.

    Scanning to email wasn't practical, as paper copies of their documents are needed upon their arrival.

    Once we set up all their Ricoh 1515s (small machines, I know) with IP faxing their phone bill was slashed by almost 80%.
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