[ale] [OT] Multifunction laser for medium-duty use

[Greg Freemyer]

I think your low on both of your costs for a reliable solution, but
I'm curious to hear what others think.

fyi: My usage is not too different from yours and we pay the monthly
rental as well so it would be good news to hear you're right.

fyi2: Used to have a HP Color laser (4200?) and it cost about $1.5K /
year for maintenance and supplies.  Drum kits, toner, etc.

Greg

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My church is currently spending almost $300/month to rent
> a Kyocera super-industrial copier/printer with a full
> maintenance contract.  This seems excessive, considering
> we've only got about 80 members in the congregation, and
> we only use maybe 10% of this unit's functions.
>
> I volunteered to investigate purchasing a lower-end
> color multifunction laser printer that will fill the need
> nearly as well.  The heaviest use the unit will get will
> be printing the weekly service programs, which amount
> to perhaps 200 pages/week, black-and-white.  It will
> also need to print a few dozen copies of a monthly
> color newsletter. Finally, it will be called upon occasionally
> to make color or b&w copies in volumes of 20 to 500 pages.
> In total, then, we print/copy on the order of 20,000
> pages/year maximum, about 10% of which are color.
>
> So... any recommendations?  I thought we could spend
> $500 or $600 on the unit, and count on spending $400
> to $500 on supplies over the course of a year.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- JK
>