What are you selling instead of C3320i/C3321i ?

[4Toon]

I mean yeah, we have all got these workarounds, the point is that this is just ridiclous for a brand new machine.

What if youve got a large client that is getting 40 of them, who is factoring in the extra setup time, time is money.

Even if you do this extended setup, I can guarantee that they will be dead in 2 years from the SPI Flash corruption on their bargain bin CPU boards.

We have not had much CPU board issues more SD card issues and a $8 SD card from Walmart fixes that. The extra setup is not normal for sure and can add a unplanned cost on a mechine that does not have much profibilty with toner cost alone if you want to keep it competitive with other brands.

[Reed]

We have started selling the HP M577 (e57540) we have had decent luck with these. I have never been a fan of the Kyocera A4 machines. The Kyocera A4 design has been around for a while. It's a PITA when you have to change anything other than the toner

[Slammers]

We have not had much CPU board issues more SD card issues and a $8 SD card from Walmart fixes that. The extra setup is not normal for sure and can add a unplanned cost on a mechine that does not have much profibilty with toner cost alone if you want to keep it competitive with other brands.

We have found that the SD card failures are a symptom, not a cause.
Roughly 70% of the machines that required a new SD card in their service life reported SPI Flash failure using the diagnostic FW tool provided by KM.

I also reccomend not using cheapo SD cards as their read/write cycles are terrible, as always do what works for you. I had a 6quid one from amazon fail within 2 days, I only ever use SanDisk ones from now on.

[Slammers]

We have started selling the HP M577 (e57540) we have had decent luck with these. I have never been a fan of the Kyocera A4 machines. The Kyocera A4 design has been around for a while. It's a PITA when you have to change anything other than the toner

Can't argue with that at all. Got to pull the ITB to get to the drums/devs and the fuser replacement sucks comapred to KM. The ITB is a pain on the 3320i too though. Basically all A4s suck in some way. If I could, I would just give everyone an A3.

[Reed]

Ditto - would prefer to sell an A3 machine