Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

[copytrust]

So here is the thing guys we are working on Ricoh machines for the last 25 years in Greece, unfortunately the last 10 years when our economical crisis begun it is very difficult to sell brand new machines the market can only handle at this time used ones so we are importing from europe,my question is this.

Is there any Ricoh color model that can compare to Minolta Pro C6500 or C1075 on color quality and paper handling?

i have heard about the Ricoh Pro C5100....... maybe?


Thank you in advance.

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

The Pro C5100 is a very good box but does need to be maintained at the proper PM interval and run with original toner. They produce pretty spectacular prints, we have a couple in print rooms and the customers that run them rarely have any complaints apart from the back to back registration, that needs to be done manually and most customers are lazy and want the machine to do it itself.

[copytrust]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

The Pro C5100 is a very good box but does need to be maintained at the proper PM interval and run with original toner. They produce pretty spectacular prints, we have a couple in print rooms and the customers that run them rarely have any complaints apart from the back to back registration, that needs to be done manually and most customers are lazy and want the machine to do it itself.

Yes thats 1 issue i was intresting to know...the registration feed cause they always loose some mm copies after copies!!!

[copier tech]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

So here is the thing guys we are working on Ricoh machines for the last 25 years in Greece, unfortunately the last 10 years when our economical crisis begun it is very difficult to sell brand new machines the market can only handle at this time used ones so we are importing from europe,my question is this.

Is there any Ricoh color model that can compare to Minolta Pro C6500 or C1075 on color quality and paper handling?

i have heard about the Ricoh Pro C5100....... maybe?


Thank you in advance.

I deal with Ricoh & KM I would avoid the Ricoh C5100/C5200 as others have said high maintenance, lots of parts to rebuild the fuser life is 600k & can take half a day to rebuild.

See if you can get a Bizhub C754 or C759 complete units, even the customer can replace without any tools.

[copytrust]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

I deal with Ricoh & KM I would avoid the Ricoh C5100/C5200 as others have said high maintenance, lots of parts to rebuild the fuser life is 600k & can take half a day to rebuild.

See if you can get a Bizhub C758 or C759 complete units, even the customer can replace without any tools.

Actually we have 2-3 Minolta Pro C754 on the field i beleive the C758 is the newer model....

[copier tech]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

Actually we have 2-3 Minolta Pro C754 on the field i beleive the C758 is the newer model....

Yes, how do you find the C754 on reliability ?

[copytrust]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

Yes, how do you find the C754 on reliability ?

Well... so far not so many problems, the registration on double side is always out of position, but i beleive thats how the machine works you cant do much there.

[slimslob]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

What I have found over the years that most makes and models manufactured in Japan have their side registration for 1 sided to 2 sided set for the way they do documents in Japan. They are very conservation aware and try not to waste paper. They therefore try fit as much as possible on each page. That means leaving a narrow right margin that when copying 2 sided hole punched or stapled would result in the right margin on the back side to be at or near the holes/staples. They therefore set the back side user margin at 4 mm. With Ricoh and most likely others, it can be set when you go to make copies to 0 and then saved as default. On older model Ricoh it was a setting in User Tools.

[mga]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

So here is the thing guys we are working on Ricoh machines for the last 25 years in Greece, unfortunately the last 10 years when our economical crisis begun it is very difficult to sell brand new machines the market can only handle at this time used ones so we are importing from europe,my question is this.

Is there any Ricoh color model that can compare to Minolta Pro C6500 or C1075 on color quality and paper handling?

i have heard about the Ricoh Pro C5100....... maybe?


Thank you in advance.

Ricoh pro c5100 is a good machine must be maintained correctly but has been replaced by 5200 series and now the 5300 series

[copier tech]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

Ricoh pro c5100 is a good machine must be maintained correctly but has been replaced by 5200 series and now the 5300 series

There's a Pro 5300 Series now?

[FrohnB]

Re: Opinion needed for Ricoh machines.

There's a Pro 5300 Series now?

Yes, the Pro C5300S. Released back in March i believe.