I visited shops in nearby cities (I live in the town) and noticed old and large bulky copiers still spitting papers out day in day out. I asked several business owners and sales agents about business strategy. Guess what, they told me to purchase brand new models from KM, ricoh and kyocera. However when you look at their shops, it was those old canon IR 5000/6000 series happily chugging along. Their brand new KMs were just sitting in the corner waiting and waiting... they were relegated to special jobs. Then the noisy inkjets were used for specialty color copies, like 5 to 7 of them. One day it dawned on me that their advises were exactly the things they did NOT do. They're trying to hide the real strategy they were using. 0.004 USD per page is really really hard to beat.
To be fair, maybe the customers in our area dictates the price and quality that is why the setup here might be different in your area.
@copyman, in my area KM only offer biz C658/558/458. I believe they are the successor of 654e/554e. I might give them a call once this COVID issue ends. Thanks
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