The Engineer Guy Disassembles a Photocopier

Is it too early for another Engineer Guy video? I don’t care, its my blog and I say no. After I posted the last one, I spent about 30 minutes checking out more of his vids and I stumbled across this one. Its close to my heart for a few reasons- first, I used to have a job delivering copier machines. I had even forgotten about that job- I had it about three weeks before I got something better- but it was the first job that I honestly feared getting crushed by something I was shipping. I had to go down a ramp at a jobsite, and the damned copier I was moving weighed almost as much as I did, and pushing it up that ramp became a battle between my safety and the health of the copier. Brute strength won the day and the copier was delivered safely, but I had forgotten about that time of my life until I saw Bill Hammack struggle with a copier to push it into his office, where it is promptly destroyed much to my amusement.

The other reason I like this video is that a laser jet printer is simply a photocopier without the copying option. The toner, the electrostatic fuser and printing head work the same- but instead of charging the paper with an image of a photo, the paper is charged with an electronic interpretation of what an image would look like. I’m not too sure why the laser jet was largely replaced with the ink jet- other than the easy availability of high color photo quality prints. But the black and white laser jet printer produced higher quality black and white printouts without the paper feeling wet. And who doesn’t love the smell of baked toner?