Originally Posted by
Klydon
You managed to print out 1500 color pages in a single night on a MPC 2051? Was the machine reduced to a puddle of plastic after that? Just constantly loading paper in those 250 sheet drawers would have caused me to go crazy. (The drawers on those models are absolutely miserable as well in terms of reliability)
The specs on the machine is 10k a month max with 20% color. So basically you just about printed an entire months worth of production in a single night. This machine is not meant to be a production printer and I am really shocked you have not had more issues with it. These machines are also slow when it comes to processing jobs. The HDD's in them were garbage and went out all the time, but before they went out, they would take longer and longer to process jobs. The processor is also touchy and in general, the machine is very slow. There were reasons why this line was discontinued after the 1 series.
There isn't a machine in the Ricoh lineup that is in the 20-25 CPM range that is going to do anything fast. They are designed as a LIGHT duty device and will not hold up to the type of workload you apparently seek to put on them.
The suggestions others have made in the thread are good ones in terms of potentially optimizing performance for what you have. I would suggest revisiting what you expect out of the machine volume wise and find an appropriate fit and if you are going to do big files all the time and want some speed, then the suggestion to look at a Fiery is a good one. Of course, there is a cost to that performance as Fiery is very pricy.
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