Office copiers are usually expensive item. Once they start getting problem, they don't function as good as when they were new. They start producing poor quality. You cannot do much when copier start making problems and you called technician for copier repair. But you can do something small yet very important which will surely delay the time to call technician for repairing the copier. Generally, people don't care much of new items in office, think that they are fine. But the truth is that office items need more attention as they have to do much more work, better quality work, and continuous work.

Maintenance of copier is as important as that of your new car. Normally the office copiers and printers etc come under the responsibility of either stationary in charge or IT support guys, but their maintenance part is left of office cleaning boy. Office clinking boy think that exterior cleaning is what he need to do. And such an important resource of office, go unattended. So, the first thing you need to make sure is to handover the responsibility to someone to clean office copier thoroughly and do other maintenance part on bi-weekly bases. Bi-weekly copier maintenance cleanup and checkup will be sufficient to do a great job towards increase its life.

Once you have figured out one responsible person to do regular maintenance work, you need to tell how to do its maintenance on regular bases. Below are the sub-divisions of the whole maintenance work:

• Maintenance of exterior parts of office copier: The very first thing, you or your guy can do is the cleaning of exterior parts. Seems easy job, take dry cloth and clean it. Next spray the cleaning solution like "Colin" etc and clean the copier again. This way the outer looks will remains as that of new copier and people are less likely to spoil it. You can also get few exterior parts covered or laminated, so that they are safe from rust etc in long run.

• Maintenance of Interior parts: The interior parts should be cleaned as the exterior parts. Don't use water for cleaning as it may leads to moisture storage in hidden area which can cause rust. Though most of the interior parts are not iron, still there are many parts which can easily get rust. Make sure the movable parts are clean thoroughly. You'll need to open the copier as much as you can do to clean maximum possible area. No need to use the screw driver etc to open intact parts. They can be cleaned once in a year. And to do, you'll need help of expert copier repair technician. After cleaning the interior parts, it is better to keep them open in sunlight for few hours. Any kind of fungous, bacteria etc micro germs will be kills making parts free from any kind of unwanted things.

• Vacuum cleaning: Another thing which is recommended is vacuum cleaner to suck the all dust particles.

• Lubrication: Once everything is clean from inside and outside, you need to apply the lubrication on movable part. Do not use just any lubrication. It is recommended to check the manual or talk to your copier dealer to know which lubrication you need to apply in exact.

If you have all these things and keep on doing it bi-weekly then you can expect several more years before you need copier repair to call.