Three hours to fix a copy machine jam, seriously?

Worked at this print shop for two years and the main copier jams if you look at it wrong. Last Tuesday, a paper shred got stuck in a roller I couldn't even see, and it took me three hours to dig it out with tweezers and a flashlight. Anyone else spend half a shift wrestling with a machine that should just work?

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miles_perez4mo ago

Heard a repair tech say those machines are designed to fail so you gotta buy new ones.

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john_murphy4mo ago

You ever think maybe they just use cheaper parts to keep the price down? If they built everything like a tank nobody could afford the damn things. Planned obsolescence sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. Most of those machines go years without issues if you treat them right. People just like blaming the manufacturer instead of admitting they dropped something in it or never cleaned the filter.

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