Full bleed on bizhub C203

[maurits]

Hi all

I am not a printer tech, but a prospect. Looking at bizhub C203 (opposing a Aficio MPC2000) with a specific question: When looking through the C203 brochure it mentions for both paper size and duplexing A6-A3 full bleed.

Looking up 'bleed' I learn it is an extra margin used by (offset)printers to move paper, later cutting off this margin. When I look up that term 'full bleed' I get this:

	Quote:
	Full bleed is printing from one edge of the paper to the other without the standard borders by which most personal printers are limited. This is useful for printing brochures, posters, and other marketing materials. Often the paper is trimmed after printing to ensure the ink runs fully to the edge and does not stop short of it.

So no I am confused. Is C203 with full bleed printing edge to edge, or does it simply mean you can feed through slightly bigger than A3 (what Ricoh calls A3+) and then cut to size later?

I know edge printing is not nice, I was told it makes the printer very messy inside when doing this often (making your job dirty) but can the C203 do it or not?

Please advise
Thanks

[minimerlin]

It just takes A3+ ..the slightly bigger size then prints the full A3 image , you then trim down to the normal A3 size which then looks like it has the print full edge to edge!

[Specilist KVN]

	Quote:			Originally Posted by maurits
	Hi all I am not a printer tech, but a prospect. Looking at bizhub C203 (opposing a Aficio MPC2000) with a specific question: When looking through the C203 brochure it mentions for both paper size and duplexing A6-A3 full bleed. Looking up 'bleed' I learn it is an extra margin used by (offset)printers to move paper, later cutting off this margin. When I look up that term 'full bleed' I get this: So no I am confused. Is C203 with full bleed printing edge to edge, or does it simply mean you can feed through slightly bigger than A3 (what Ricoh calls A3+) and then cut to size later? I know edge printing is not nice, I was told it makes the printer very messy inside when doing this often (making your job dirty) but can the C203 do it or not? Please advise Thanks

You are correct.

Your Sales Rep is not using the correct words to sell you this MFP.

NO MFP should print toner off the page. It ends up on the belt and drum and not only makes a mess but will damage/reduce the life of these parts.

They need to state it does OVERSIZED paper sizes so they can be trimmed down to STANDARD sized stocks.
This is an advantage in itslef, and printers have been trimming off bleed since, like forever.

shame shame shame on you Sales Rep.