Issue #0523/1 - Up-rated laser printer engines form the basis for two significant network colour laser printers new to the market.
Finally moving into the 24ppm colour space, Kyocera Mita has launched an up-rated FS-C5020N colour laser printer, designated FS-C5030N, which is capable of producing pages at 24ppm in both mono and colour.
Kyocera MitaFS-C5030N
Dell 5100cnUnfortunately this does not fall below the aggressive stance taken by Dell with its 5100cn colour laser printer, but for users requiring media flexibility and reduced interventions, the FS-C5030N has its clear attractions.
… and fully configuredNote however, that Dell has achieved its low long-term CPP through its exceptionally low hardware price and black toner price. The pricing on the colour consumables results in a nominal colour CPP of 4.33 pence – 9% higher than the Kyocera Mita machine. This means that if the balance of mono to colour pages of 70% mono and 30% colour were reversed to 20% mono and 80% colour, the overall CPPs of these two machines would actually be identical at 3.87 pence.
Needless to say, if the colour page coverage increases from the standard 5% coverage per colour used in calculations by the manufacturers, the advantage swings further in Kyocera Mita’s direction.
Therefore, users with high colour output requirements, both high volume and high page coverage, are better served by spending more on the initial hardware and buying the Kyocera Mita FS-C5030N over the Dell 5100cn.
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UK >23ppm A4 single-pass |
Purchase | Print Speed | Nominal CPP |
Mixed mono/colour CPP over 3 years |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brother HL-4200CN | £1,499 |
Mono Colour |
24 ppm 24 ppm |
1.39 pence 5.89 pence |
3.52 pence |
| Dell 5100cn | £559 |
Mono Colour |
25 ppm 35 ppm |
0.62 pence 4.33 pence |
1.89 pence |
|
Epson AcuLaser C4100PS |
£1,040 |
Mono Colour |
24 ppm 24 ppm |
1.03 pence 7.33 pence |
3.25 pence |
|
Konica Minolta magicolor 5450 |
£1,169 |
Mono Colour |
25 ppm 25 ppm |
1.05 pence 5.86 pence |
2.98 pence |
| Kyocera Mita FS-5030N | £1,355 |
Mono Colour |
24 ppm 24 ppm |
0.89 pence 3.97 pence |
2.23 pence |
| Lexmark C760n | £809 |
Mono Colour |
25 ppm 25 ppm |
2.20 pence 10.42 pence |
4.77 pence |
| Lexmark C762n | £1,199 |
Mono Colour |
23 ppm 23 ppm |
1.52 pence 7.36 pence |
3.30 pence |
| Xerox Phaser 6300N | £899 |
Mono Colour |
24 ppm 35 ppm |
1.50 pence 7.20 pence |
3.49 pence |
| Xerox Phaser 6350N | £1,249 |
Mono Colour |
35 ppm 35 ppm |
1.41 pence 6.36 pence |
3.42 pence |
Note that for this level of machine, the mixed mono/colour CPP over three years shown in the accompanying table is calculated on the basis of 5,000 pages per month using maximum capacity toners and takes into account any standard, or starter, toner cartridges shipped with the printer and includes the purchase price.
Xerox Phaser 6300Although the Phaser 6350 is based on the same engine as the engine that Dell uses, this is where Xerox maintains some exclusivity in its relationship with Fuji Xerox. Dell will not be offered the full-speed engine – at least not yet.
It has certainly taken Xerox a long time to take advantage of the new engine, leaving Dell an open field for almost a year.
Phaser 6350fully configured
Xerox has unified the life expectancy of the imaging and transfer units – always a good move in terms of reducing numbers of interventions. Whereas the Phaser 6250 had an imaging unit rated for 30,000 pages, its transfer roller was rated only for 15,000 pages. The new machine has both rated at 35,000 pages.
Rather surprising though is that the high capacity toner cartridges for the 6300 are good for only 7,000 pages whereas those for the 6250 were rated at 8,000 pages and Dell quotes 8,000 pages for each of the colours and 9,000 for the black.
This is probably a strategic decision to create is a real difference between the units for the 6300 and for the 6350, which are all rated at 10,000 pages.
However, the result is an increase in the CPP figures for the 6300 over the 6250 amounting to 20% for mono pages, 8% for colour pages and 16% overall. Due to the higher yields, the Phaser 6350 is more economical than the 6300 but only the colour CPP is lower than the previous figure for the Phaser 6250 (6.36 pence against 6.65 pence).
In the meantime, Hewlett-Packard is again being left behind in terms of engines in the colour page printer space, still having not broken through the 16ppm barrier with its Canon engines.
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