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Re: Help! Advice on new printer - X 560, KM C6000 or used C650?
What the meter count on the C650?
Do you know the consumables life remaining?
Obviously the higher end machine like the 6000 will give better quality. Will the 6000 include a RIP? -
Re: Help! Advice on new printer - X 560, KM C6000 or used C650?
I actually ended up purchasing a used Xerox DC242 (<500k clicks) with Fiery and Light Production Finisher. It came with 70% drum life and brand new toners and I got a brand new set of drums/toners and corotron from the same dealer at a discount.
Compared to leasing, the whole package worked out at the equivalent of 3.5 months of leasing a new Xerox 560 and 4 months of a new C6000 with a similar configuration.
Time will tell if it was a good choice but the 242/252 seems to have been a good seller and has a good reputation and there is plenty of anecdotal information on the forums and spares on eBay etcComment
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Re: Help! Advice on new printer - X 560, KM C6000 or used C650?
In my opinion running 25-60k A4 (or Letter) clicks on a c6000 would be serious underuse. I've heard from engineers and users of Xerox and KM kit that underuse causes some quality degradation due to developer and toner settling. Plus the x560/c6000 is an incredibly expensive piece of kit for printing letters. The c5501 which we recently purchased likes to run 40-60k SRA3 (80-120k A4/Letter) per month to run smoothly, and this is one below the c6000/x560.
Personally, for your purpose, I would stick to an office box like the Xerox docucolor, much cheaper and the quality gain with a larger c6000 or X560 wouldn't justify the cost.
Not sure about your application colour requirements but have you considered buying in letterheads and running something like an OKI es9130 black and white machine? Would work out significantly cheaper than any of the above colour printers.
I'd avoid OKI colour machines like the plague but the B&W's have a good rep for being reliable.Comment
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