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#1 2005-04-07 1:43 pm
- BadMrMojo
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New printer a'comin.
The lease is up on our Ricoh 6513 and we've got two primary options for replacing it:
A Ricoh 3131 and a Konica Minolta bizhub c350.
Anyone have any practical experience with either model? Anecdotes? Recommendations? Random blather?
In particular, I'd like to know what you think about the consistency and reliability of the machine in less than ideal circumstances (out on the floor, no climate control, no dedicated operator, calibrations only when I remember, etc...). Primarily we're going to be using it for 1-off proofs and relatively short runs of marketing materials.
Please... There's no real need to pop in and say, "My Epson C86 is the R0xx0R." We've already narrowed down the list to these two models.
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#2 2005-08-11 3:54 pm
- mrmacrro
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Re: New printer a'comin.
Resurrecting the dead here....
We are looking at the Konica-Minolta c351 (newer version of the c350) and I am wondering what you ended up doing.
We plan on running short production runs with this machine and doing office printing as well.
What are you doing with yours, do you like it?
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#3 2005-08-11 4:11 pm
- BadMrMojo
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Re: New printer a'comin.
Actually, we eventually went a totally different route and I'm now quite happily using a Xerox Phaser 7750 - just a printer, rather than a big multi-function.
The reason we didn't go with the Minolta was mainly the print quality. Once we saw the machine in action, we just weren't happy with it. It might have just been the way the sales guys had it set up for themselves, but everything had an annoying pinkish cast and highly banded gradients.
When one of the selling points is, "Yeah, and we can correct all the problems we're having in software, we just don't do it ourselves!"...
Well...
Just run. Run fast.
Please note that this may just have been the vendor we were looking at, but it really turned us off fromt he machine completely - particularly since part of what we were looking for was the service contract and if they can't take care of their own demo machines...
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#4 2005-08-16 12:53 pm
- mrmacrro
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Re: New printer a'comin.
I got a sample of a 3 fold brochure I made with InDesign and all of it's bells and whistles (Gradients, transparancies, drop shadows, all the no nos...) the print out without the Fiery RIP looked better than the one using it, there were blocky sections in a gradient area. Not so cool. Also they Rep is on my ass to buy Buy BUY!! since it's almost end of month, (she even mumbled that it's getting close to EOM!!) The Ricoh rep didn't even know what a RIP was and when I explained it to her she said Oh A Raster Image Processor of course! , Yeah right.... Then she sent info on their RIP its a PCL RIP..... WTF! WHo makes that?
So All we need is something that wil print out 11x17 full bleed does your Xerox Phaser 7750 do that? if so is it production worthy, by that I mean can you run front and back side 11x17 up to 500-1000 copies?
We just need a good cheap full color option for that kind of quantity.
Thanks!
Mark
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#5 2005-08-20 6:59 am
Re: New printer a'comin.
I recently tested both the 7750 and the Konica Minolta c350 (it was an OEM Imagistics version, but still the same thing). As far as color, the 7750 killed the c350. The c350 reproduced a PMS gray as a green and is considerably lighter overall. It's so bad that I think they just didn't set it up correctly. Even if that's the case, I don't want to lease from people who don't know jack. The c350 is overkill anyway, who needs scan to FTP and scan to e-mail and that type of crap?!!? The 7750 was made for Mac users and designers. That's what we're getting.
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