Issue #0532/3 - KYOcount, offering fleet management, accurate billing and maintenance alerts, launches alongside Kyocera Mita’s fastest MFP to date.
Coinciding with the launch of its fastest A3 MFP devices to date, the KM-6030 and KM-8030, Kyocera Mita has launched version 3.0 of its fleet management system that the company hopes will give Canon’s new eMaintenance (TCPglobal Issue#0529 - "Canon takes automated printer alerts a step ahead") a run for its money.
Having been referred to as ‘eMaintenance without the Big Brother tendencies’, KYOcount is a management system that returns machine status, page counts and maintenance alerts to a central location that can either be at the customer’s site or at the servicing dealer’s site.
Perhaps not as sophisticated in its design and operational capabilities as Canon’s eMaintenance, KYOcount does, nonetheless, keep the data collected within the security zone controlled by either the customer itself or the supplying dealer. Yet, the system helps ensure that machines on the network are up and running for the maximum time, provides those managing the fleet with the ability to see where individual machines are either over or under utilised and provides accurate data for billing under contract schemes.
Data collected is presented automatically in graphical format and can be imported into other applications for analysis. With this information to hand, the fleet manager or reseller can design the hard copy fleet for maximum efficiency and minimum outlay.
Whereas Canon has implied that its eMaintenance is only available for use with Canon products, KYOcount utilises the SNMP protocol that means it is capable of interrogating any SNMP compliant device, at least for basic information.
Kyocera Mita is offering 90-day trials of its KYOcount system with a full licence available for just £99.
Both KM-6030 and KM-8030 are A3 MFP devices with duplex scan heads and print speeds of 60ppm and 80ppm respectively. Duplex printing is also standard.
These machines do not suffer from the duplex scan speed bottleneck experienced by some manufacturers in office based devices where manufacturing budget is all-important. With many devices, a duplex scan head can only transmit the amount of data relating to a single page so, when scanning in duplex, the speed drops to half the simplex scan speed because the data pipeline cannot cope with the data for two pages at once. However, these new MFPs are capable of scanning 80 pieces of paper per minute in simplex mode, meaning that duplex scanning mode equates to 160 sides per minute.
Toner yield on this new engine is typical of Kyocera Mita, pushing the limits higher and higher. Quoted at 47,000 pages at 6% coverage (the coverage typically used by the copier industry), the yield equates to more 56,400 pages at 5% cover.
But, priced at only £93 per cartridge, the nominal CPP for these new machines is a miserly 0.16 pence per page.
Furthermore, bearing in mind that the ECOSYS long life drum is designed for the life of the machine (3.6 million pages and 4.8 million pages respectively), a maintenance kit every half million pages is all that is required on top of toner.
There is a pretty big BUT here though. At a cost of £18,119 and £22,099 respectively, these MFPs are not for the small company!
Running these machines over a period of three years, at the recommended average duty cycle of 60,000 and 80,000 pages respectively, this means that the overall CPP will work out at around the 1 penny mark for each machine.
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