M3540idn comfortable max monthly duty cycle?

[copiertec]

Need to get some opinions on the comfortable max monthly duty cycle on a M3540idn. I have a client that was asking for a tabletop model, they are estimating around 15,000 +/- prints per month. I feel they would be better suited to an A3 model. I feel the max on the A4 models should be 5,000 pages or under.

[copiertec]

The more I think about it A3 model is the way to go.

[BillyCarpenter]

15k seems extremely high for a tabletop model. I'm with you on the A3.

[blackcat4866]

Here's some food for thought:

A co-worker of mine went out to PM an ECOSYS M6535cidn, and discovered that it had done the entire PM cycle in three months, without a since service issue, and perfect image quality upon arrival (... as perfect as it gets, i mean to say).

So maybe some of those pie-in-the-sky, crazy monthly yields may be that high for a reason. Perhaps these tabletop machines don't run for shit at 1000 copies a month, but cruise right a long at 100K per month. =^..^=

[tmaged]

I think you can get about 30k on the feed tires. You'd be changing them every other month.

[patrickjlc]

I have a couple of m3540 and 3550idn running on pharmacies with an extra tray unit. They print on average 8k pages from 1 tray and around 2k from the second tray ( they print labels for)
Only trouble I have encountered is charge rollers don't last very long if customers turn off the heat at night.....

Heater is a little involved to replace, everything else very easy to get to.

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[KYO_OEM]

All Kyocera models are running well, if they would used with the expected Ø copie volume p. month
They don`t like low volume, "sleeping, single print jobs again sleeping" or else.
Ø copie volume p. month for this system = approx. 15.000 prints
But why you wants to sell the "old" range instead of successor M3145idn with all implemented improvments?
Have a few systems in the field with current counter > 2.000.000 pages and they had run much better compared to systems with low monthly volume.
Expected lifetime: 15.000 pages/ month * 60 month = 1.800.000 pages over all, but they are still working well.