Originally Posted by
mntech
They are no where near the quality of lets say a Xerox docu 260, but have decent color for office color needs. Even the 7345 series had better photo color quality, but I like the longevity of the drums, which usually always makes yield. Photo prints look decent, but are noticeably different when trying to convert RGB to cmyk.
We put out a lot of 7556's a couple years ago, when they were coming off leases, these machines are pretty easy to maintain and can meet the needs of most offices.
Here are a few things I've had issues with:
Doc feeder: some have the old style which doesn't hold the user side cover down very well and causes jams
Net controller fans: these get slow of fail completely causing overheating, sluggish interaction, and will cause scans to sit in queue saying processing for almost an hour
Boot time: these boxes take almost 5 min to boot, which can be get frustrating when trying to diagnose problems that require rebooting the machines several times
Waste toner: doesn't give much of a for warning, will get calls ob machines going down when customer doesn't have a backup waste bin.
Fuser: expensive to replace, lots of fuser system errors with a perfect looking fuser roller/belts, from my research, the pressure roller swells up and has a hard time rotating(can usually get by for while by loosening pressure springs)
Oem toner: these machines will go down hill fast if somebody tries using aftermarket toner
Here are a few pros:
Efficient toner consumption
Can reset supplies like transfer belt, belt cleaner, bias roller many times before they actually need to be replaced
Drums generally make full yield + 5-10% if rechipped
Decent print quality, comparable to other office printers
Developer is refreshed by toner, so doesn't need to be replaced periodically, but have had foreign objects or clumpy toner cause voids in dev units
Fairly easy to work on, , have never needed to hook up pws laptop to these, internally service mode can usually accomplish most troubleshooting needs.
User friendly
All in all, I like these boxes, if you can get to the 78xx series, there are improvements, and we still sell some 75xx refurbished to this day, but lately have switched to kyocera due to price and a whopping 600k drum yield
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