Secret Life Of Machines - The Photo Copier (Full Length)
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2011
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James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, patented the first copying machine, because of the disastrous inaccuracies that had occurred due to copying drawings by hand. Drawings to be copied were written in a special ink which bled into the copy when squashed through a mangle.
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Thanks to Tim Hunkin the creator for allowing these excellent videos to be freely distributed on-line.
This presentation has the soul that is missing from the photocopier industry itself.
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I was a photocopier engineer, biggest problems with photocopiers
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"A bit like a cookery program."
It makes it fun
I remember being part of a project to implement a paperless office in the mid nineties, it failed. In the meantime we generated a Mount Everest of paper in reports, memos, policies and procedures, training manuals, and anything else you can think of to printout and copy. Ah those wee the days!
All the more reason for recycling those mountains.
They seem to use more paper than ever. However, most people alive today weren't working in an office in the 1950s.
A copy machine is nothing more than a scanner and laser printer in one. If you have both a scanner and laser printer, you can use it as a copier. Really, you could do it with a ink printer too, but it would be far too expensive. Ink printers are a horribly expensive way to print. They are cheaper up-front, but cost 10 times or more to operate. An ink-jet cartridge is like 25- 50 dollars and you *MIGHT* get a few hundred pages out of it under ideal use scenario. They dry out with or without use in a fairly short period of time. A toner cartridge runs more like a hundred dollars and is good forever until it runs out of toner and toner cartridges last from 2000-5000 pages.
@@tarstarkusz Yeah, it's kinda funny. "10 years ago there where a lot of predictions about the paperless office" - Tim Hunkin in 1993. And 28 years later, it still isn't a reality. Maybe by 2040...
@@tarstarkusz I have a Scanner/Copier/Inkjet Printer that I got in 2009 and it still works OK. Not that I do a lot of printing with it (about 100 pages a year). As for ink it depends where you buy it. If you pay full retail then the cost is horrendous but I get generic inks for about a third of the cost of retail.
@@kiwitrainguy You can get away with that with older printers. But even back in 2009, you couldn't get generic for many ink printers. Many of the ink cartridges have a page count chip which won't let you even refill a genuine cartridge. They're just a lot of hassle, especially if you want to do a lot of printing.
Oh, I had forgotten about this series. Absolutely loved it! Very happy to see them again.
"go wrong at the time you need to copy something"
some things never change
The printers' tradition
And its a mystery that only God knows.
In the same way that the roof only leaks when it's raining.
Tim and Rex not only described something so mundane and boring, but also so important with such ease. And that would be one thing if that was it, but Tim's social commentary and cartoons make this far more than an educational program. It's a perspective from a skeptic with a hugely great understanding of the minute BS we seem to forget runs our world.
Tim's sense of humor is transcendent.
I think a lot of the appeal lies in Tim’s relaxing demeanor.
@@dewfall56 *demeanour
I had a job where i needed to clear out several pallets of old office equipment that was stored in a back corner of our warehouse. I was picking through it (and snagging some of the neater stuff for myself) and tossing stuff into a dumpster we were going to have hauled off for e-waste recycling. I got to the copiers and, well... I learned that color copiers have been around for longer than I thought and that it really doesn't take _that_ much energy to create a rainbow mushroom cloud in a tall warehouse with very still air.
Laser printers still work exactly the same way & are still the only printer which doesn't dry out. The toner just costs a lot more than it used to. Maybe when we completely forget how to make toner like we forgot how to go to the moon, we'll go back to blue prints.
I was a copier tech for 30 years, I remember working on a few of those in the video like that Sharp SF770.
I recently bought a copier, printer, fax, scanner for thirty dollars. My how things change. I am glad to have discovered this show. It would have been nice to see it in the day. Oh well better late than never.
It was one of the only things worth watching on tv back in the late 80's early 90s. I love this show to this day.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Even though, the show aged really well.
I began watching it just for fun, i didn't expect to find anything interesting in a 30 year old show (I'm from the 2000s). But hey, all this information is still really relevant these days.
@@rhodexa that but pinching skit would never go over today.
To me it is very surprising just how much ink-jet printers have displaced low-end laser printers (which is all a copier really is along with a scanner). Ink is terrible and has a consumable cost of probably ten times a laser printer and they (toner cartridges) last forever without use. That is a big down-side to ink. They dry out with or without use. The toner cartridge in my laser printer is over 20 years old as is the printer. Even at 20 years old, the print looks better than any ink printer in B&W..
I absolutely loved these programs.
Shout out from Rochester NY, the former home of Xerox!!! I LOVE nerding out with your vids!
I nerd out to this while nerding out all over my woman at the same time
The frustrations of copying and printing continue to this day
360p, who cares. I just love these old stuff videos. So clearly explained a child could follow along. Great series. Coronawire. :)
As part of basic training l was trained on the 1385 when I joined
Rankxerox ,I even had too install one in new Scotland Yard when it was in Victoria street.
I used to work on a high speed laser printer back in the 80s. It worked just like a copier, except the image was drawn by a blue laser scanned across the photoreceptor by a rotating mirror. That beast could print 120 images/minute on both sides of the paper. Not many printers with their own removable disk drive and 9 track tape unit as well as a 2 horsepower drive motor and transmission. ;-)
Blue laser on the 80s? wow, im pretty sure it used an argon ion laser. Awesome, probably that machine used like 10kw to run!
That was probably the Xerox model, re engineered from the 9500 copier range. An absolute beast of a machine, ran on 3 phase electric, and had a target of 70k between service visits. Eventually superseded by the 1075/1090 range, which although were slower, were almost as productive, and could be plugged into a normal 13A supply with a domestic type plug (UK).
So interesting! We looked all over for an explanation of *how* a mimeograph machine works, and finally found it here!
They found that the dust on the moon dances and floats up at the termination line between the dark and light surfaces as the moon rotates. This is because of the charge that the sun gives the dust interacting with the separate charge of the dark areas. Pretty cool to see it.
This brings back soooo many memories as I used to repair B&W and color photocopiers of every make and kind for 30 yrs! and yes they are designed to break after so many copies. (every part had a lifetime limit in number of copies)
and they are much more dirty than working on cars.
This video got the Xerographic process almost right except they left out the cleaning stage...and no mention of the bias voltage used on the photoconductor and developer.
It also left out the fact that high speed photocopiers don't scan the original but flash it like a camera does and the photoconductor is a belt not a drum.
After 30 years working on them I think I still have trace amounts of toner under my finger nails.
What an awsome historical film! Copiers were magic rattling boxes to me as a kid. Thanks for explaining!
the best science series ever
Brilliant, some of the stuff about installations etc.. is so true
Really useful (and entertaining) for my students
It's only 50 copies, no need to be so rude
Brilliantly done in such a relaxed an interesting way - thank you
What a great show.....there were several British shows that were great back when cable was starting to go crazy and they need programming to fill 83 channels. Newer comments for such and old post.....interesting!!!
Check out 'tim hunkin' on You Tube. His new series 'The Secret Life of Components' is great.
I go as far back as the mimeograph and Gestetner.
Back when TV was educational...
Still waiting for that paperless office in 2021
Trust me, you don't need dry conditions to have static. I carry around so much that I can turn street lights on and off, and I routinely set off anti-theft alarms at the library when I am entering the building- and I live in Florida.
Hearing Tim complain about "ozone" and "powder" 25 years years later is pretty funny.
@willyt_22 The second was just a photcopy
One of the best series ever!
RIP Rex
We had a Kodak copier in school that just photographed the original and printed it but what was neat was the document feeder for multiple pages and could even come out stapled.
best documentaries in the universe.
yes, well done, I was a Canon copier service man 1979, hawthorn, Melbourne Australia
I loved this series. Watched it when it was on when I was 8-9
A very informative programme.
This is a really great series
Tim Hunkin, making copies. The Timanator. Tim-a.ronto! The Tim!
Production cost and takes taken to explain these stuffs takes lot of time and money, tanx for educational video.
7 Copies a minute, wow!
Wow,
Super ironic that they are talking about a paperless offices and corona wires in the copiers
When it took the corona virus to make some offices paperless or even the office itself obsolete
!! a gem of an endearing show........
At one time the photocopy monopoly, Xerox, was worth more than the giant, General Motors, yet it had sold not a single a single photocopier. They were leased. If the pages counted were too few, they were removed. At four dollars a page, today's value. I colour copied material for my restaurant the day Xerox colour opened in my city with great success. Oh, had to use their copier paper.
January 2019, I just went to a courier office to receive a package, the guy there wrote everything on paper by hand and then made a copy, paper is still here even with ridiculously low prices in storage memory...
Fewer than 10 years ago I was still completing a paper timesheet, calculating deductions manually and drawing wages in cash each week. Two years ago the MD of one of my suppliers hand-wrote me a letter reminding me my account was over-due and could I please send them a cheque? I was a bit surprised but after I visited them last year I was surprised they'd sent the letter by post rather than mailcoach.
@MichaelKingsfordGray And more persistent.
What a difference just 30 years makes. Actually with color printers coming to the fore in the late 90s it was even less in terms of copiers.
Her "Nine fourteen is a dry machine".. I don't believe that for a second, and neither does her boss.
I love this show when I was a kid
5:01 pedestrian electro-bastard ray activated
When he said 10 years ago we were supposed to have a paperless office, so I went to the years ago and added making it 21 years ago, It is the end of 2022 so round up to 22. Right, in 2000 a paperless office. And Steve Jobs walked in and told his flunikes I want this paperless today and they scrambled to figure that out.
2:30 That's why the engendering's drawings are BLUE!! This is awesome!!
Yeah I've been wondering that for like 20 years, never cared to look it up tho :D well now I know.
5:07 Umm, sir, behind you, are you expecting a copy, sir... it's just that... the pages are falling on the floor it will be such a bloody bother sorting them out again. Blimey. Nigel, could we put a basket underneath maybe?
20:50 An almost daily occurrence for me in1990 and those fights with that fkn infernal machine were the stuff of legends. lol
So nostalgia 😓😭
I remember recording this whole series 30some years ago.
My oh my do I remember that proclamation...The paperless office!!! I do foresee a time in the distant future when paper will become superfluous!!!
It's a good thing that Bevis & Butthead weren't in that cartoon.
He would most assuredly sit on top the copier & make copies if his butt.
Can Ayone help me? This show is great (not broadcasted in my country) bu´t i saw "PERSPECTIVE" (older) I want to know about the music of the intro..Thanks.
It's an arrangement of dave brubeck's take five, hope that helps if you're still hoping for an answer after four years!
Val Bennett's The Russians are comming.
What hasn't Rex built?
Just For Asking but What was "Utopia Services" Back then?
Its a fictional company he uses to add humor and show how these devices changed office work.
22:56 I presented the Van de Graff machine for a school project last summer
The best science program ever
That advert for the 914 would.....not fly today.
I love thiseries but. Please please watch the Aisie show Utopia. I can help think the writers of the awesome sitcom took their name from Tim and Rexs show
Allied POWs made copies of escape maps by placing a moistened original over a plate made from gelatin. The ink from the original transferred to the plate which was then used to make duplicates.
Oooooh I found one that I did not watch yet!!!!! Unfortunately there are not enough episodes for my taste.
RIP Rex.
12:10 lol that xerox ad aged like milk
Idk how I got here but I love being here
These are great videos that I am just now viewing many years after their production. Having been in the UK I must ask you how you managed to be outside on a day that it was not raining? LOL Thanks for the videos. We are in the States and are anglophiles and quite enjoy your work. Best of luck!
Do the shredder next
Love the ska tune.
Arghh! Be careful of the Arc lights without goggles, Tim! 2.33
Brian would get fired instantly thees days.
Oh how the times have changed.
"Whoops"... Broke the glass...
WOW the VOLUME the of these episodes is so much lower than the commercials, I can barely hear what this guy is saying, and then the commercial comes on and it's SCREAMING AT ME
... don't you know how to adjust the input volume when you digitize these shows and post them....?
the madman, cooking sulfur in his own home on the stove
When TV tried to make You smarter....
@5:00 Haaa
I know that recently
3:00 I now understand why the pantents I have hanging above my bed are colored like this
The man responsible for the not so paperless office.
Hi this video is good how to come xerox machine in world i like it.............
What year is this from?
TIm's own site says 1992 so I'll trust him ;).
The SLOM website says 1993. (Season 3.)
(The video was uploaded in 2011. Originally broadcast 1993.)
O! The casual sexual harassment. We were so innocent......
😅 years of fighting my copier and I just now realized how to fix it for companies so it stops the dirt issue
But I ain’t helping those leaches
spent two hours of hw on this
Dam, I learned something today!
Fa-mi-rii ko-pi-ya!!!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
Looks like Mike Judge was inspired by these cartoons when he created Beavis and Butthead
The timing is right, and it does check boxes which might have interested him. I believe you might be more correct than not. This particular episode makes me think of Office Space after your observation.
www.gofundme.com/f/lets-get-right-to-repair-passed
Thinking is the new sexy. Well, no, alas, sexy is the new thinking, I'm afraid.
12:08 old adds where weird
The Japanese is one don't suprise me, it's just like watching TikTok videos
Lol the xerox add was incredibly sexist
23:24 irony covid19 made the paper'less office come true
beard guy is rich
17:29 , cannot make any video about tech stuff without a single reference about Japanese..:D
Careful with the corona powder... hmm
Dang that was a lot of wasted paper