Wanted: recommendations on highish volume printers

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I need to replace several printers and I want to try and avoid the "buy cheap, maintain expensive" model that's been foisted on us in the past by managers who can't see the difference between a $1k printer and a $5k printer other than purchase price.

Thankfully, producing a spreadsheet showing 5 year operational expenses for any given model has made the point to management that buying small printers is a false economy.

I've got a whole list of printers onhand and I want to hear reports about reliability/quality from those who actually matain the things, not the salesfolk.

We print 10-20,000 pages per printer per month, mostly on HP CLJ 5550 and 4700 units.

Consolidation isn't much of an option as the printers are in different buildings. HP printers are not on the list for consideration as their PS emulation is broken.

So, for that kind of volume, what would you use, and why?

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Re: Wanted: recommendations on highish volume printers

I buy MFD by the truck load the Kyocera 2626 is a good low volume A4 machine that are printing around 800 a day. I have a 5 year contract and 2 hour response time for repair ( usually hear within the hour) But have have a larbe numver on large mono and colour devices also. As you said the next step is a large jump in price where Kyocera or Canon make good devices. You also you have not said the type of documents youn are printing. Large pdf may need a Fiery (double the cost of the device)