A printer question from me
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So I was answering printer questions over on Spiceworks and was on the following thread: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/899702-question-about-ricoh-aficio-mp-301spf
The user is looking at the Ricoh Aficio MP-301SPF. The toner it uses is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1NK1HJ9718
Now, I've heard a lot of very mixed things about Ricoh. I have never cared for their interfaces and while some I've heard last 15-20 years, I've been told by many people they aren't very good. All that being said, this b/w laser is supposed to have a toner that costs 25% of an equivalent yield Brother. Brother's TN-750 is ~$125 retail. The Ricoh is ~$30-35. They are both supposed to have 8K page yields at the standard 5% coverage.
Now, here are my qualms about this:
- I've never used Ricoh, so I can't attest to the accuracy of their expected yields but Brother is always spot on and even sometimes too conservative.
- The toner just looks small. The Brother TN-750 is a fairly decent sized toner, which for an 8K page yield makes sense. This just seems small to me.
- If Ricoh can deliver printing at those kinds of costs, why don't we see every business using Ricoh printers? In fact, of all the major brands out there, Ricoh is the one I probably see the least of. Xerox, Dell, HP, Lexmark, Brother and Canon are all far more prevalent everywhere I've been than Ricoh. I even see Konica Minolta more than Ricoh. But if you can really get a printer that can print that cheap, wouldn't more businesses use it?
These were just a few of my concerns. What I'm looking for is outside opinions to clarify this for me.
Thanks,
A.J. -
At a previous place we had the full size production Ricoh stuff, it was pretty decent. Really have to say their service was top notch, under 4h SLA and they achieved it more often than not (better than any other I've seen to date). We also had one of their monster 8-9m long ones that averaged 2mil copies a year. Considering the volume it rarely broke.
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@MattSpeller said:
At a previous place we had the full size production Ricoh stuff, it was pretty decent. Really have to say their service was top notch, under 4h SLA and they achieved it more often than not (better than any other I've seen to date). We also had one of their monster 8-9m long ones that averaged 2mil copies a year. Considering the volume it rarely broke.
Agreeed. I've have excelent experince with both Ricoh and Konica Minolta enterprise stuff. Never used those small ones though.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Agreeed. I've have excelent experince with both Ricoh and Konica Minolta enterprise stuff. Never used those small ones though.
I too have clients that have various models of these and they work fine.
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Even if the toner was 5K pages, at that price it's a great value! I just question the legitimacy because it seems like everyone would be using these if this is really the case. That and it just feels odd that I'm only just now hearing about it...that's not me being proud but I keep up on pretty much all things printers. It just feels like one of those things that if it seems to good to be true, it usually is.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Agreeed. I've have excelent experince with both Ricoh and Konica Minolta enterprise stuff. Never used those small ones though.
Me neither, it feels funny to use toner cartridges again haha. I'm used to these babies - you don't change them very often lol.
Edit: the one for the huge 2mil/yr copier was the size of a baseball bat, obnoxious number for copy yield
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@thanksajdotcom said:
This just seems small to me.
I know that's what your girl said to you the other night. Ohhhhhhhhhhh, burn!
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@PSX_Defector said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
This just seems small to me.
I know that's what your girl said to you the other night. Ohhhhhhhhhhh, burn!
I've got plenty packing, thank you very much. Now you on the other hand...
