Sounds to good to be true. How's the cost of parts and how does it do with aftermarket toner?
Can someone make money at $0.015/click?
CD
Sounds to good to be true. How's the cost of parts and how does it do with aftermarket toner?
Can someone make money at $0.015/click?
CD
Just to give you an idea. (this is napkin math, take with salt.)
Parts are cheap...
250$ for fuser unit
100$ for DV unit
50$ for drum unit
Basic maintenance cost...
35$ blade
40$ Drum (NA)
50$ DV
15$ Spill blade
10$x2 Drum and DV blades
20$ other doodads
total- 180$
If the machine is in a terrible location you can expect to change a MFP or PCU PWB at least once in it's life.
MFP- About 300$
PCU- About 130$
You can see the boards are very reasonable, and you can also get core credit for the old board.
We might spend about 50-300$ in labor per maintenance cycle.
200k maintenance cycle = 3$k at .015 per tick. Bottom line, there is a very good chance of profit.
Don't go with the knock off toner. The sharp toner for these machines are worth the extra few $$$
SwisSeV,
What kind of problems have you seen with knockoff toner?
Background, poor solids, light copy, toner error codes?
Thanks for all the great comments. I am going to look into
getting these machines.
DR
I have no experience with a knockoff toner for this model. We started integrating some in our other contracts and the result has been poor. Usually the toner makes lines, dirty copies and can cause drum unit and fuser wear if it goes unchecked. It seems like the knockoff toner doesn't hold up in high humidity as well, but I could be wrong.
Using sharp toner only costs about .00165$ per 6% coverage copy on this model. That is dealer prices of course.
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