Xerox 660
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Front cover of the 660 Key Operator manual
660 Key Operator manual
Toner and drums were tested to ensure manufacturing quality, in the test facility at Welwyn Garden City. In this photo you can see 3600, 4000, 7000 and 660 copiers.
Toner and drums were tested to ensure manufacturing quality, in the test facility at Welwyn Garden City. In this photo you can see 3600, 4000, 7000 and 660 copiers.
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| SPECIFICATIONS | |
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| Copy speed (per minute) | 11. First copy after 12 seconds. |
| Paper tray | n/a |
| Output tray capacity | 40 sheets |
| Finisher/sorter |  |
| Staple function | |
| Reduction/zoom | |
| Document handler | |
| Dimension and weight | |
| Depth | 66 (cm) / 26 (inches) |
| Width | 50 (cm) / 20 (inches) |
| Height | 45 (cm) / 18 (inches) |
| Weight | 86 (K grams) / 190 (Lbs) |
| Floor space requirements | 2 x 2 (meters) / 5 x 6 (feet) |
The 660 was the first machine I was trained on, along with 720’s at the Rank Xerox Training School, Newport Pagnell in 1973. At the time, the 660 was a modern marvel and for many offices it was their first photocopier.
It was a clever design with all the mechanical systems synchronised to feed the paper. Some repair jobs were awkward and took a while. Does anyone remember changing the web gear assembly? How about replacing the document drum shaft?
I joined Xerox in Nov 1978 and I’m now 3 weeks away from retirement. The 660 was the 2nd product family I trained on in 1980. You get them set up right and they were a good machine. They tried to give us a sleeve to put on the feed rolls when they wore out but that sleeve was worthless. I always held out for new feed rolls. Hated it when the gripper bars got stuck sideways and destroyed the radiant fuser. I had to laugh at the stirring wand the customer was given to stirr the toner when copies… Read more »
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I was a workshop and field technician for Xerox of Guatemala from 1978 to 1986,i mantained and repaired the 813,660,720,914,1000,2100,3100 and 3107. I have good memories from those days.
Hi:)
Can anyone help me with a manual for this model 660?
Best, Louise (louogkurt@gmail.com)
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I have a 660 for sale, it’s in great condition and on a stand, we believe we also have toner for the unit. I’m unsure how much I should be asking for the unit. any ideas?
Hello Rick,
I’m not sure how to contact you on here without it being public. Ideas?
Was a tech rep in Singapore from 1972-1985 worked on 914,422,1000,813,660,2300 series,3600,7000,2202,3300, 10 series. memorable times
Hi
Would it be possible to get in touch with you about how it was to repair a 660 in the beginning of 70es? I am working on a novel with a passage about it and haven’t been able to find the manual online.
Best, Louise
I have my Dad’s Xerox 660 for sale. He was a tech rep for 17 years. Comes with webs, toner, new drum in box, original Xerox service manual, etc.. The 660 and I are in Louisiana.
Hi
Would it be possible to get in touch with you about copies of the manual? I am working on a novel with a passage about a repair of a 660 and haven’t been able to find the manual online.
Worked for Xerox based in Curacao from 1980-1985, first as a technician ( 660, 2600, 3100, 3450, 295 etc ) , then is sales. Trained in Leesburg. Best time of my life.
If you are interested in adopting my Xerox 660 and the parts and supplies that I have, please email me at Beckassociatespc@yahoo.com
I have a Zerox 660 and lots of parts and supplies. I would love to find them a good home.
Good afternoon
I have a Rank Xerox 660 copier with its original instruction book
I have it for sale if you know of someone interested you can contact us at anamzamo@gmail.com
If you need me to attach the instruction book or the book where all the revisions of the machine appear, I will send it to you
The machine is located in Spain
a greeting
I was a Xerox rep in New York City (Midtown East Branch) and my territory was 6 square blocks of Manhattan’s garment district. Wow, did I ever sell a bunch of these. But Savin and others had flatbed copiers, but needed special paper. Now when the Xerox 4000 came out (probably 1973), that was a great upgrade. Happy Times!!!
Did you know Anthony LeFande … Nino for short?
Hi
Would it be possible to get in touch with you about how it was to repair a 660 in the beginning of 70es? I am working on a novel with a passage about it and haven’t been able to find the manual online.
Best, Louise
I was in sales, not a tech rep, so I would not know. But as I remember, the 660 was pretty reliable, didn’t need a whole lot of service.
Okay. Thank you! Hope to find the manual somehow in any case.
Do have anybody developer and drum for this machine, if you can help plz: vassmate@mnagroup.hu
I was V23C in Washington DC, worked on 813, 660, 3100, 3107, 3400, 3450, 2300, 6500. even helped on a 914 drive belt replacement… had to cut the frame apart!!!. I loved the 660, had one on Air Force one, and a line of 14 in the Commence Dept. with kids streaming feeding all day. Went there weekly for fires in the fuser??? I remember sitting on the floor of offices with the grey blanked draped over my lap, cleaning 3100 augers and doctor blades, and the gold fusers; people (mostly accounting firms) ran them until they locked up! I… Read more »
I was 806X. Started in 1973. Remember blowing my nose at the end of the day and toner coming out. Of course the smell of burnt paper.
I invite you to watch the beautiful antique Rank Xerox 660 copier from the 1960s. The copier is after renovation, functional. I make very nice prints.
After 30 years of parking, I renovated it and gave it a new life. Now he can work and make copies for many years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2UmuMDS2o
Dear RX peoples,
Ik have a complet RX 660 with extra drum etc.
If you have intrest please send me a mail.
Regards D van den Bogert
vandenbogert@ziggo.nl
I was a Rep for Xerox in Portland Oregon 1977-80’s. We used to give prospects a trial on everything 660,3100’s, 4000’s all the way up to the 8200 and 9200. If you’re tech went in and set up a machine. It’d serve you well to close the sale. I remember our team putting out 23 trial in a week and closing 22. Harrison Square was a great branch. What a great experience!! I was a 23 year old kid with no cooperate background. Best decision I made as a youngster coming out of school. Grest memories. And those parties????
Hi I was a xerox rep. in the 70’s I have a 813 copier in excellent condition, and still working. I am looking for two adjusting tools: 600T609 and 600T548.
Can anybody help?
I would really appreciate.
I have manual for Xerox 813/660
also spare parts and consumables.
https://www.ebay.pl/itm/283498424781?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
I don’t have a manual, what are they, I might have one.
Hi all,
We have a Rank Xerox 660 for sale at the moment (in Norway):
https://www.finn.no/125370760
The machine doesn’t work. According to the previous owner, a condenser needs to be replaced.
Best regards,
Geir
Is the copier still for sale? I would like to buy it
Great site! I joined RX in June 1986 as an analyst in the new field of laser printing, and worked with nearly every digital product we’ve had. Initially 97/8700, 37/2700 & 4045/6, and as Claus mentions above, the 850/60, 6085/8000 workstation & server (and Raven printer, aka the 2700). Then MICR, 97/8790, 4050/90, and 4850/90 Highlight colour, with tri-level xerography! I remember a wonderful Engllish chap by the name of Roger Morgan, who after returning from the US, told us of the new 135PPM Manhattan IOT, and when we seemed unimpressed by the 12.5% improvement explained that that was the… Read more »
Hi all Xeroids…I joined Xerox in 1972 as a CRO (Customer Relations Officer) and drove all around in my little Mini training customers how to clear paper jams and put out the fire. I loved it, even as the products changed and got more complicated, it got better and better. I retired in 2006 and although I love my life now, I still think of my years with Xerox with lots of love …how lucky I was. Linda x
I worked as New Business Executive ( AKA Door Knocker) in the early 80’as and Roger Morgan was my District Manager. A great guy who taught me a lot. I’m sure he’s still living and breathing Rank Xerox to this day.
Roger Morgan taught me how to sell on joining his team as an NBE in 1979, Birmingham. My first demo and sale of the 660 was to Hagley Hall. Starting as a trainee and assisting the likes of Bunny, Terry and Roger Gaunt to lift the 2202 and 3107 up flights of stairs to demo is one happy memory. Crazy days and great fun.
Hi Ian, how are you? What are you up to these days? Did you know that Roger passed away two years ago?
Roger Morgan is alive and well….it is I, living in Sydney Australia after 35 years with Rank Xerox and Fuji Xerox
Ian….Roger Morgan is still alive …..it is I..where are Stacey, Gaunt, Sandland, Parker and the rest of my star team
I have many spare parts and supplies for the Xerox 660/813 copier.
http://www.typewriter-muzeum.pl
First Xerox 813 desktop copier from 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_referrer=watch&video_id=45Jic_1yeW0
Great! And why the distance between 1 and 2 is longer than the others? Thanks!
Good question, but I don’t know.
Hi! Can anyone tell me what is the function of the dial? It’s to select the amount of copies?
Thanks!
Yes, that’s right.
What a trip down memory lane this Website is. I joined Rank Xerox Australia in January 1979. The 660, along with the 3100F machines, were my introduction to photocopiers. I have worked on a wide range over the years including the 6085/8000/8090 servers/workstation as well as the 850/860 word processors and decentralized laser printers. Currently in my 38th year, now with Fuji Xerox, I support the range of office MFDs. I remember having to reset the TOC as Trevor mentions above. Primitive by today’s standard yet good machines in their day. Any one remember the 3450 and its horrendously noisy… Read more »
Ah memories!!! The bliss of replacing the meter switch where you turned the whole machine on its side to remove the bottom panel – remebering to remove the cascade developer first of cours. I recall my product training course was learning how to reset the Time-Out Cam in a phone call to a “specialist ” 200 miles away I have just found one of these and having it shipped to the UK to restore in retirement. It will sit well with my 6085 / 4045 Documenter 5014 copier and 645E Memorywriter Of course if anyone has a copy of the… Read more »
In Britain (don’t know if it happened in the States) but these were modified via an image capture system bolted to the top of it to become a Microfiche printer, each image had to be set up manually and a fiche card could hold anything up to 300 images a job could take days!..
I worked on all the old stuff in the 70s. 914, the original automatic copier 720 replaced the 914 1000 replaced the 720 813 original table top 660 replaced the 813 I also did duplicators like the 7000 The 4000 was the first electronically controlled machine. The 3100 was the first to use a magnetic brush for developement and the clam shell design now still used on copiers and printers. Poor Xerox had many good ideas but internal politics kept the company from ever being great other that the flash in the pan success in the 1960s. Some fun notes.… Read more »
813 was a cool machine. Fun to work on.
I serviced the Rank Xerox 660 many years ago, along with the RX914/720 and the RX3600/7000 models. I have field service and key operator manuals for several Xerox models including the RX 660. I recall one amusing event when I was demonstrating to a young female operator how to remove a document jam from inside the machine. Upon finishing the demo I flipped up the side panel catching her pleated skirt causing brief embarrassment to us both followed by a good laugh. This only ever happened the once.
Graham If you still have the 660 Service Manual I would welcome a contact. I am still working for Xerox out of Uxbridge after 41 years so can be contacted on Trevor.ford@xerox.com or +447730015464
Trevor
Trevor, yes I have the 660 Field Service Manual but unable to contact you with details provided. Graham
Hi Graham
sorry just returned to the site after many months and spotted your message.
i finally left Xerox in April 2019 after 42 years and my email and phone number changed inevitably the phone is now 07484715020 and yes, I am still seeking a service manual, a 660 drum and Glass developer preferably 660 but 422, 714, 1000 would work.
Any help you can offer would be much appreciated for my 660.
i will soon start renovation of my 4045 and 6085 so closing out the 660 would be great too
I worked on these in the 80’s. Xerox went through a fallow period, and actually reintroduced a variant of these. The awesome error: the machine had a lever to take the tension off the gripper bar chain so you could remove the (xerographic) drum. Everybody, at least once, started up the machine with the lever still in the service position. The gripper bar would shatter all three fuser lamps, then bend into a u shape. What a pain that was. You really tried not to do that twice.
Thanks for your reply. When Xerox reintroduced a variant of the 660, did it still had the same model number 660? Or was that the 813?
LOL Clark I forgot all about that, starting the machine with the grippers down. I never did but everyone else I knew did it at least once.
All supplies and parts for discontinued Xerox copiers, duplicator etc. products are available from The Parts Drop. I owned a 3100LDC, then a 1020 (smallest Marathon Copier model) now I have a 5335.
You don’t happen no know of any old Xerox copiers for sale? Has been looking for a long time for a Xerox 4000 copier to buy.
I keep antique models of office automation and I do have a RANK XEROX 660 with me for sale.
Hi Gary,
Could I get in touch with you about possibly seeing what antique xerox machines you might have for sale? Thank you, either email or phone would be great.
Best,
Mimi
I have a xerox 660 and i want to sale it. 00989132119068 tel
Jim – You are right — it did make excellent copies. For the longest time, I had one of these that I rescued from my dad’s office in the 1990’s. It still ran well, but, I could no longer find a supplier for the cotton Webs for it, (even though I had 2 cases of dry ink) so I gave it to a guy. I kinda wish I had hung on to it — from time to time, I see Webs for them pop up on eBay or other sites!! I once told a Xerox Rep who serviced our 1990’s… Read more »
LOL about the free fire extinguisher. A bank in a medium-sized Texas town had a 660 in the early 80’s they just kept just because it still worked. They called for servce statng that “the paper keeps gettng stuck and catching on fire”. Another tech rep and I were riding together because it was lunch, and we took the call. We drove into town, down main street, and around the corner to the bank, and damn there were about 5 fire trucks, cops, fire hoses running across the street, people, running back and forth. We were like “No! It can”t… Read more »
Hi to all from Cape Town South Africa. Retired now, I also started my Xerox career as a 660 tech. Just to add that the messy web cleaning system was later replaced by a rubber “doctor blade” system which cleaned the drum in much the same way as a car’s windscreen wiper cleans the windscreen. Regards.
I was a service rep in the 70’s and 80’s, and we were very fond of these by-then-outdated old machines. They were of course not designed for high volume, they were, instead, a small office fixture. They made VERY high quality copies when well-maintained, however, and were just unbreakable. They just ka-chunk ka-chunked right along like an old steam engine. As the article above states, they had a heat lamp fuser, and occasionally the paper would get stuck and smoke, but, due to the air flow, seldom if ever, actually catch on fire. Kit really depended on the operator to… Read more »