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MikeHiow

MikeHiow

MikeHiow

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Looking for something to replace an ageing Brother unit.

It is primarily used for printing customer documentation, so high quality prints are paramount.

Beyond that, it needs to be Laser, capable of Duplex printing and should have a network interface.

Currently looking at the Dell 3130CN (@£376 ex.vat) as the front-runner, but thought I'd check here as I'm sure there are a lot of people here with these sort of printers in use.

Thanks in advance :)
 
What sort of volumes are you printing?

The initial cost of colour lasers pales into insignificance compared to the running costs in the longer term, especially if you're doing reasonable volumes.

We've stopped buying printers and lease Ricoh MFD's. The lease costs of the smaller machines are pretty low and the running costs are around 4.5p/page colour and 0.5p b/w - regardless of coverage, including full onsite support.

The Dell you've suggested costs over 8p/page at quoted yields - but if your coverage is higher then this will go up.
 
blueboy2001 said:
What sort of volumes are you printing?

The initial cost of colour lasers pales into insignificance compared to the running costs in the longer term, especially if you're doing reasonable volumes.

We've stopped buying printers and lease Ricoh MFD's. The lease costs of the smaller machines are pretty low and the running costs are around 4.5p/page colour and 0.5p b/w - regardless of coverage, including full onsite support.

The Dell you've suggested costs over 8p/page at quoted yields - but if your coverage is higher then this will go up.
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Where do you lease them from? Any chance you could drop me a trust so I can take a look at the costs?

mrbell1984 said:
Xerox MFD's here x10
Dell 3130's x5
HP 2055's x20
Dell 2330CN's x20
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How do you find the 3130s?
 
It is a very real consideration. Our photocopier is being ever more problematic, so it may kill two birds with one stone.
 
Right, it now looks like we should be replacing the Copier as well, so a MFP is going to be the way forward I think.

Suggestions?
 
I'd definitely consider leasing, or at least a printer maintenance plan. Our ppp (pence per page) costs are that low (and toner/consumables/maintenance/break-fix is inclusive) that buying our own would be vastly more expensive, even if we were down to only a couple of units.

As for brands, if you only want printing then HP all the way, but if you are looking at multi-function, then Océ document managers are superb value, and very well built machines.
 
We lease Ricoh machines. We deal directly with Ricoh UK because we have a lot of machines, but they won't be interested in one machine. They'll have a local dealer.

We switched to Ricoh a couple of years ago. We've got everything from little desktop things right up to an MPC6501 monster. We had Konica prior to that - the print quality on the mid range colour machines was excellent but they were troublesome machines - frequent irritating little issues with drivers and controllers crashing.

We have Ricoh's @remote service which orders consumables and sends for an engineer automatically. The repair guys have turned out on several occasions before we've even noticed a problem!
 
It looks like we're going to opt for the Dell 5130 at the moment. I'm just waiting for Dell to get back to me regarding me finding the printer £160 cheaper elsewhere.

It looks ridiculously fast though!
 
Depending on how big a machine you need, the Xerox Colorqubes are very cheap to run, way cheaper than any colour laser MFD, but they are big devices capable of 60ppm colour.
 
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