Well, personally I found Kyocera usually more expensive than other brands because of the low cost of running. Probably, during last period of the time, Kyocera colors are generally priced down, not because they dont have the mentioned features I think, but because of the 3 main reasons:
- a new model is in the stock and they have to sell out an old one asap.
- they need an answer to competitior's model 20 ppm A4/A3+
- so far these devices haven't had a colorful touch panel, an usb host, a good toner, etc.
But the price is a complicated subject which depends on so many things, like an area of your activity, your competitors and customer etc. So I guess, too hard to talk about that.
Anyway, I am sure that the problems I mentioned about with my last post, have nothing to do with a customer paying extra money for that.
It just something which has to be done when we talk about colorful MFP and all my customers from any marketing department, printing shop, publishing house as well as others, think in that way. And they are absolutely right. Thats why I am so disappointed about new Taskalfa.
I just wonder if not having these mentioned 'features' might be caused by 2 things:
1) some technical problems, especially in regards to a grammature of paper and printing without margin (personally I dont think so)
2) someone in Kyocera is very stubborn and dont accept these 'features' as an important benefit in the office environment.
As a result, a new Taskalfa althought will improve the present sale situation of single line dealers, it will not allow them never to get the strong position in the segment of A3 mfp in color.
I hope that someone from Kyocera is reading all of that and finally is going to do something with it. Because its a very serious limitation, which simply stops sale.
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