Opinion on Ricoh 5560/3260C

[Scott_Lewis]

A bit off topic here......

Anyone have any feelings about the Ricoh color 5560 or its little sister the 3260C (Savin C6045 / SDC555 ) or otherwise know as the B132/B200? I have a client that currently has an MP7500 that has been one of the best machines I've installed. So, expectations are high with them. They do a solid 50k a month of presentation material. Very little if any heavy cardstock. Just engineering proposals and drawings on letter and ledger paper.

[Cipher]

MP7500 is a nice machine.

We have converted a few customers from faster B&W machines to colour.
Problem is the 3260c is noticeable slower, copy quality for black is not as sharp or as dense in comparsion to a MP7500 and because it's colour it requires more frequent maintenance and the customer will pick up on all this pretty quickly especially if they are doing high volume.

[Tonerbomb]

This box ROCKS!!!!!! it's very solid in the field. Very good CQ for full page color fill, and it does keep up CQ on long runs. There have been some updates and nessasary parts mod's but all in all a very good preformer. Maybe not what a HV bw customer would want, but still a good box!

[Scott_Lewis]

Nice to hear that this box isn't a can of worms. I'll be looking forward to possibly getting this box.

I was just looking at the PSG again last night. It appears that servicing this guy is could be a little time consuming; ie there are four PC/developers to PM. Not like all of the 'little' color machines I've been working on to date with a simple IU swapout in lieu of a PM. How long does a 150k PM take you guys?

[jeffreyozz]

it is time consuming- we have only done the black changeout on ours but you have to do the pm by the book, otherwise you will have issues-bout 2 hours first time. Fuser build is time consuming as well first time round. Just dont lose the drum tray that comes with the box, very helpful unit.

[BPGTECK]

Good Box Would Love More Of These

[oldtech]

I only have one in my area, and so far have only had the fuser roller issue cause any trouble. Takes a few min extra for the first fuser repair. Also beware doing a cross platform address book import, we messed up the admin log on in the NVRAM and had to replace it.

[Jbtech]

got a little scared

when I first heard 5560, after the FT5560 debacle I would have thought they'd have retired that model number permanently

[paulg]

Was in a small print room today, which had three of these and two 1085s.
The 5560 were being hammered as most jobs now have a touch of colour in them somewhere.
The 5560 i looked at was over due for its 2nd 300 k pm by 50+ k. Apart from the pm most of the calls were to empty the waste toner, be easier to have a waste toner pipe in to a huge industrial bin.