It is safe to say this can be done with family members as well

Did you take a screwdriver to the cartridge?

Nice! Looks like black hole leaked

New title unlocked: Developer / bomb defuser

@Mislead, misleading people since 6/9/16.

Ex Canon Copier Field Tech here.

That pic looks about right.
That looks like developer dust, not toner btw (based on the dev jar in the background). So two thumbs up for that!

I once put cyan dev in the black devstation, I have never ever vacumed that much in my whole life.

Ok last sentence might not be as funny to you whom have never had to deal with copiers. But the rest of the 0.1% of the ranters here will get it.

This is why you stay away from black magic..

I love the footprints :)

Why do companies still have printers... It's 2017.

This is why I hate printers/copier. BUT I'd like to see the face of the person on that footprints.

This seems like a scene from Looney Toons. Only lacks a duck who's beak is turned 180 degrees.

How the flying fuck does stuff like this happen?

++ for madelbrot!

@Mislead ex Ricoh tech here. Know exactly what you mean! Had a good laugh at the toner incident you had.

@ragnarr023 @Mislead i would like to know what it means!?

@SIMMORSAL multifunction devices are complex machines which customers pay alot for. They can expect that the printed colors should fall inbetween a small error margin of the "correct" calculated color for example in a printed logo as can be demanded by lawyers/advanced marketing staff.

As the process inside the machine to get the color as exact as possible is complex enough, the help from a distracted service tech which makes the wrong blends in the first place will make it very hard for the machine to produce these results.

Sometimes the electronic charge is also different in the different developers, and that could render the machine useless without a full replacement of the developer unit and perhaps more parts tainted by the mistake.
From the deep parts of my memory such a part could cost about 3000€ and the dev dust alone about 800€.

So kids, don't do drugs, or mix cyan with black developer dust.

@Mislead thanks for the elaboration. Just one thing, what's the vacuuming part? You mean you cleared out the...cartridge(!)?

One more thing, it's fixing a printer that annoys 99.9% of us, what annoys you?

@SIMMORSAL the vacuuming part is cleaning out the devunit 100% so no residue is left in it. It takes more then an hour, and also you want to get that devdust back in the tiny jar since, like I mentioned, the cost is up there with the price of gold.

And what annoys me?
Well, back then at least, every call was the customers blaming the MFPs, when you know, it actually was not.

A few I recall especially:

"The printer does not work! Its crap! And I can barely see anything in the copy room!"
(A fuse had blown, the entire room was powerless)

"This copier makes shitty white spreckled printouts!"
(Turns out the original picture were of a snowboarder during a jump, the white spreckles where snow..)

"I made this important fax to a customer and I need the original back!"
(I had to go to the customer, explain that papers don't acutally "digitalise" as they go trough the document feeder and through the phone line.)

Thinking about it now, I should have grown immune to annoying things.

@Mislead 😂 so basically just stupid people again.

And thanks man, learned something new!

Looks like a crime scene for me