Advice for best machine for a small office (100K prints per year)

[jimmydenhaag]

Hello everyone,


A client of mine, a real estate agent who prints approximately 100,000 pages per year. Would like to purchase a used machine.


This company prints many pages in color (detailed photos of objects), print quality must be excellent and printing costs must be low.

Which machine is suitable for this company? A Canon ira, Xerox, or a Ricoh/ Konica Minolta?


I am very curious about your advice in this case .


Thanks in advance for the responses!

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: Advice for best machine for a small office (100K prints per year)

Real estate owner/operators generally need a reliable copier that can produce high quality color images on a variety of media plus Dept Codes to recover their printing costs from their agents.

The agents could be using either Windows or Apple product and like to print from their mobile devices or remotely from their home offices.

At 8.3k per month print volumes, a used copier is not a great choice. Many expensive developer compounds may be depleted and other parts could be worn out.

I recommend a new Toshiba e2525AC at 25 ppm or faster with the eBridge Global print option for anywhere printing.

[progoffice]

Re: Advice for best machine for a small office (100K prints per year)

I recommend a used Konica Minolta C368. You can usually get them with less than 100K impressions and I've seen this model go over 1 million impressions with minimal maintenance. The color is good as well. If they do a ton of high volume scanning, you might go with the C458. They come standard with a beefy dual scan document feeder and have higher toner yields.

[slimslob]

Re: Advice for best machine for a small office (100K prints per year)

Real estate owner/operators generally need a reliable copier that can produce high quality color images on a variety of media plus Dept Codes to recover their printing costs from their agents.

The agents could be using either Windows or Apple product and like to print from their mobile devices or remotely from their home offices.

At 8.3k per month print volumes, a used copier is not a great choice. Many expensive developer compounds may be depleted and other parts could be worn out.

I recommend a new Toshiba e2525AC at 25 ppm or faster with the eBridge Global print option for anywhere printing.

I agree, a used machine would not be advisable for a real estate office, especial if they are want to print multi-page color flyers with photos of a the properties they are currently listing to hand out to anyone potential customer who happens top come in the door. Having been retired for nearly 6 years now I am not up on what the current models are so I can't make specific recommendations but will say based on 100,000 a year is about 1,923 a week for a 52 week year. Then looking at a 40 hour work week that is right at 48 prints an hour. Feature wise I would go for a model with a booklet printer and the ability store individual pages on the MFP. THat way when they need to update a page or 2 of their flyer, they just edit those pages and send them to the MFP. They can then select the pages to print when they need more flyers.