CS 300i replacement advice

[Old Crow]

Looking for advice about a replacement machine. I deal mostly with the Ricoh product but have a customer with a Copystar CS300i, which I sold to them used, 5 years ago. In that time, they have averaged 35k/month so it now has almost 2 mil on it. Had I known they were going to be running that kind of volume I would have recommended a faster, beefier machine. That said, the copier has been the most reliable machine I've ever encountered(35 yrs. in the business)! Putting together a proposal for a replacement machine and although I usually sell/service off lease Ricoh product, I'd like to stick with a Kyocera/Copystar because of the high yields of the maintenance kits and reliability.

Wondering what the 2-3 year old off lease replacement model would be to rival the reliability of the old 300i? The customer is OK with 30 ppm, so either a 30 or 40 ppm machine will do. The majority of their volume is printing invoices so they don't need a finisher. Thanks for the input.

[kevin.coleman1]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Hi
A Kyocera 3551 would be ok provided you use genuine toner, if you could get hold of a Kyocera 3252/4052 really good m/c, long life consumables and really reliable.


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[guitar9199]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

The Taskalfa 3511i might do the trick.

TASKalfa 3511i

[copiertec]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Looking for advice about a replacement machine. I deal mostly with the Ricoh product but have a customer with a Copystar CS300i, which I sold to them used, 5 years ago. In that time, they have averaged 35k/month so it now has almost 2 mil on it. Had I known they were going to be running that kind of volume I would have recommended a faster, beefier machine. That said, the copier has been the most reliable machine I've ever encountered(35 yrs. in the business)! Putting together a proposal for a replacement machine and although I usually sell/service off lease Ricoh product, I'd like to stick with a Kyocera/Copystar because of the high yields of the maintenance kits and reliability.

Wondering what the 2-3 year old off lease replacement model would be to rival the reliability of the old 300i? The customer is OK with 30 ppm, so either a 30 or 40 ppm machine will do. The majority of their volume is printing invoices so they don't need a finisher. Thanks for the input.

We still have 4 out in the field with over a 1.5 mil on them, customer uses it just for printing and they pretty much run flawlessly. I second the TA-3551 or a little older TA-4501i, true workhorse that has smb2 and tls 1.2 capabilities, if needed, but no longer supported by Kyocera (AFAIK).

[blackcat4866]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

We still have 4 out in the field with over a 1.5 mil on them, customer uses it just for printing and they pretty much run flawlessly. I second the TA-3551 or a little older TA-4501i, true workhorse but has smb2 and tls 1.2 capabilities, if needed, but no longer supported by Kyocera (AFAIK).

I like the Alphard II's also (3501i, 4501i, 5501i). Older, but reliable.

[Old Crow]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Thanks for your suggestions. Customer says they don't want color, I assume the 3551 is the color model (ci)? Any thoughts on whether the 3501i/4501i could have connectivity issues down the road, given it's age? May not be an issue because they only print to it and do not use the copier for scanning. Being that the 3501i/4501i is 5-6 yrs. old already, I'm leaning towards the 3511i only because it's newer(looking at Precision Roller's model home page for introduction year, etc.).

[blackcat4866]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Like copiertec said, you may have issues with scan to email SSL3 or SMB, but everything else (printing, FTP scanning, faxing) should not be an issue. =^..^=

[Old Crow]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Thanks again for your advice, appreciate all the input. Going to see what's available with low mileage.

[copiertec]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Thanks again for your advice, appreciate all the input. Going to see what's available with low mileage.

Let us know what you buy. Being they are just printing to it, Either one (3511 or the 3501-5501i) are all good choices for solid reliability.

[Old Crow]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Looking to possibly purchase a 3511i but it has this message: EXTENDED SECURITY COPY DISABLED

Not sure what that means, will it cause a problem with access? How to eliminate?

Thanks

[Scott]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

I agree with the 3501/4501/5501, but the 3551 is color if looking for color the 3551 is a good choice

[Old Crow]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Customer is asking if there are PCL 5 drivers for the CS 3511i in order for it to work with some older management software that they have. I don't see specifically PCL 5 drivers on the download center of the Copystar website. Anyone know if they exist or if the universal driver would be a good alternative?

[copiertec]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

I am almost certain that you can choose pcl5 emulation in the kx driver options once installed on the pc.

[ntbann]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

PCL5 is an emulation that is selected in the driver.

[Old Crow]

Re: CS 300i replacement advice

Just following up to say that we installed a CS-3511i and all is well. The pcl5 emulation was right where you all said it would be. Thanks again for everyone's input.