EEVblog 1629 - Dumpster Find: A3 Colour Photocopier!

A Konika Minolta bizhub C284e A3 colour photocopier found in the dumpster. Enjoy Dave's embarrassment at the redundant teardown.

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[jeffreyorion]

If you go to the counter screen and hit the stop button then 00 stop 01 stop it should take you to service mode so you can dig in deeper and recalibrate it. I used to be a copier tech and worked on a few thousand of them over the years

[Robert-jrc]

Bet Someone got fired and said I'll show you, then turned off the main switch so no one knew how to turn it on.

[Beng]

I'm a technician for mainly Konica Minolta machines, this is a good model. The parts in these last a very long time. They have a few common issues but it should last you a long while!

[EEVblog]

FYI, it's rated for 100, 000 pages / month!, so 300, 000 total pages is nothing.

[ray]

I wouldn't be surprised if the contract finished on the unit and they didn't want to continue to pay the yearly maintenance fee to keep it running, so they decided to cut their losses with it and likely get a more modern one.

One of the places I work at here in Western Australia, we lease, once the contract runs out, we either buy outright and move it to a different location and replace with a new lease, or send back to the leasing company and get a new lease.

It's often not worth continuing to pay the yearly maintenance fee on these things once a lease has finished.

[Damicske]

You don't have the finisher else it would be able to staple and perforate ;) the network plug is on the back right behind a cover. We have the C558 with the bottom bin as dual (or quad) A4 bin. If the A4 is gone a full carton of paper goes in the printer :) There are normal handles on the side to pick it up with 2 persons.

[stripethetiger]

The real champion of these things is the ADF scanner on the top. If you need to scan a heap of pages and the rollers are clean, it will absolutely tear through double-sided pages and PDF them on device.

[ConnerBurns]

I manage similar printers at work. If you have a windows server running, you can manage the device and use all the fancy print features from any computer on the network.

[GlennHamblin]

I'm so envious that you have a dumpster room that is literally a cornucopia of good stuff.

[floodo]

Some day Dave is gonna find a literal bar of gold in the dumpster lol ❤️

[gunnish]

We has this exact model in university in like 2014, certainly had networking, but ours also had a third party card reader

[maximusmcfire]

I used printers like this at work for many years and never had any problems with them. Great printing quality, fast, automatic scans, automatic 2-side printing. In my company you could press "print" and print your stuff on any printer in the company, that is super convenient. This is the perfect printer for business

[MaverickFischer]

They like to hide the main power switch behind the toner panel door or sometimes on the side where it's "more" visible. They're all designed differently of course! I learned that from years of part-time experience in retail printing.

Nice find and glad it's working! Also, thanks for showing us a little tear down too!

[StreuB]

These are the contract machines we have at work; we have two of them. One setup as B&W and the other setup as color. They are fantastic machines, they just run and work and thats it. Their color prints are of amazing quality as well and really fast. Envious of the score!!!!

BTW the thing does have a stapler, AND a puncher. Also the bottom "utility drawer" is a spot for a high capacity paper-lift drawer that will hold a stack of 4 reams of paper. 🙂 Ethernet is on the back bottom left IIRC.

[Turbode]

We had a whole bunch of these machines, in different sizes, in my old company. They are quite reliable, if you maintain them regularly. We used them as printers and network scanners (scan to email/folder [no cloud rubb..]). The ethernet port is on one of the back corners behind a panel, but I don't remember if it's on the right or left side.

[charlesdeens]

I liked that artwork description. You're quite the wordsmith.

[OuTannu]

Dumpster room.... nah more like a treasure room for Dave :-D

[TheDefpom]

With the old printer doing that interesting pattern, it is now able to print money... via art.

[stephenbarrs]

The hard drive is for processing image files, and storing user boxes on screen, retired Konica engineer.

[jrr]

Thats a nice find. I dont have much experience with the Konica uniys, but tons of Ricoh and Fuji experience. These are typically purchased with a service contract that provides service, toner, etc.