Hello everyone, it looks like that this year I will upgrade the KM c258 to something newer as the service cost is starting to pile up and the machine is closing to 9 years of service in all short of weird stocks that I have passed through it.
Also while maybe to keep maintaining the machine is still an option, I have noticed that drums and transfer belts are deteriorating faster than they used to.
I mean I have my K drum at 26% remaining life and it is worst than an older one I have run down to -50% and it was a year without many special paper passed, actually I have printed mostly normal stocks with this one. Also the others drums that are converted K are starting to act up at 65% of remaining life too. The transfer belt didn't made it to 75% before starting to show up lines as well, I blamed it on some heavy stock I passed but I have done so in the past and the transfer belts have managed to almost end of life before starting to show problems.
My tech guy said to avoid 250i (and some of you have too suggested that is a step back from the c258 on older threads) and maybe try the 251i, but he installed it on a friend recently and the machine simple can't even bake consistently a simple black page, I mean yeah I don't expect production level consistent print here but there where noticeable "waves" on the black print even on 120gsm papers (the worst was in the 300gsm tho). Looks like bigger machines like 450i ones are ok, but is double the cost too. I do had something like this on the c258 too but it is not that bad, I mean after laminating the print it wasn't even noticeable anymore.
Also colors are feeling a bit washed out too, but not that much to be a deal breaker.
Can anyone confirm that they have actually lowered the quality for whatever the reason (I don't know, meet environmental standards or something?) I understand that the Simitri V toner is worst than the HD one to be eco friendly but the machine can't even print that black right.
Or we just happened to get a bad unit here? The tech guys tried everything in deep switches and all but they didn't managed to fix the problem. I have to notice that as a photo copier everything seems to be ok but we do need better quality and media handling than a photocopier and this is why we spent more on this line of machines and not getting something cheaper like a c257i
Honestly I'm a bit confused to where to go, I want to move on the production machines but I try to finance this option and if I don't manage to do so I have to stay on the lower end of the spectrum, but KM looks like they don't offer something that cover my needs anymore.
Also while maybe to keep maintaining the machine is still an option, I have noticed that drums and transfer belts are deteriorating faster than they used to.
I mean I have my K drum at 26% remaining life and it is worst than an older one I have run down to -50% and it was a year without many special paper passed, actually I have printed mostly normal stocks with this one. Also the others drums that are converted K are starting to act up at 65% of remaining life too. The transfer belt didn't made it to 75% before starting to show up lines as well, I blamed it on some heavy stock I passed but I have done so in the past and the transfer belts have managed to almost end of life before starting to show problems.
My tech guy said to avoid 250i (and some of you have too suggested that is a step back from the c258 on older threads) and maybe try the 251i, but he installed it on a friend recently and the machine simple can't even bake consistently a simple black page, I mean yeah I don't expect production level consistent print here but there where noticeable "waves" on the black print even on 120gsm papers (the worst was in the 300gsm tho). Looks like bigger machines like 450i ones are ok, but is double the cost too. I do had something like this on the c258 too but it is not that bad, I mean after laminating the print it wasn't even noticeable anymore.
Also colors are feeling a bit washed out too, but not that much to be a deal breaker.
Can anyone confirm that they have actually lowered the quality for whatever the reason (I don't know, meet environmental standards or something?) I understand that the Simitri V toner is worst than the HD one to be eco friendly but the machine can't even print that black right.
Or we just happened to get a bad unit here? The tech guys tried everything in deep switches and all but they didn't managed to fix the problem. I have to notice that as a photo copier everything seems to be ok but we do need better quality and media handling than a photocopier and this is why we spent more on this line of machines and not getting something cheaper like a c257i
Honestly I'm a bit confused to where to go, I want to move on the production machines but I try to finance this option and if I don't manage to do so I have to stay on the lower end of the spectrum, but KM looks like they don't offer something that cover my needs anymore.
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