Reliability is a keystone of any successful copier/printer MFP installation. Limiting downtime, wait times for repair and user frustration with devices is something that all companies want to reduce. When colour became a standard for MFPs you want to avoid challenges and manage them appropriately.
BLI (an independent testing lab) recently gave their Top Pick award to the Kyocera Colour lineup of MFP devices. This demonstrates the effort and success that this brand of equipment has shown over the past 10 years.
"10 out of 10" for every device tested is how the BLI testers reported their experience.
Kyocera mono printers and MFPs have long been designed to have exceptional durability and low costs of operation. This award specifically reinforces this same reliability in their Colour MFP lineup.
Kyocera applied many technological features to developing the greatest reliability for its colour lineup. These include long life drums and other major components all designed to last significantly longer than competitors - and reduce the need for frequent user or technician intervention.
In the award certificate BLI references there were no service interruptions in 1,875,000 'prints' on the machines tested. This kind of ultra reliability is what every purchaser needs and wants.
Of course having reliability without top colour renduring, fast speeds and low cost of ownership is not good enough. BLI reports that the Kyocera devices exhibit these strengths and features as well.
Three Tier Colour:
Kyocera offers another feature which can provide you a significant benefit when considering updating your mono B/W devices to Colour: Kyocera MFP devices offer the ability to use a three tier "click" system based upon the amount of colour coverage on the page. Using this structure a purchaser can achieve finite control over the costs of operating colour devices through design of the types of documents printed.
It can even make it viable to deploy full colour capable devices where in the past only mono were used. Leppert has offered this capability successfully to clients on their colour toner based MFPs for several years now. It is a well proven capability that can work to your users advantage while still controlling the overall cost of operations.
MFP deployment requires knowledge and experience
When a print decision involves a fairly simple devices like a monochrome printer making a wrong choice does not usually lead to a disastrous result. It might mean a somewhat higher overall operating cost or some minor issues for users but usually a single use print device is a pretty basic acquisition.
When colour is involved the decision to purchase becomes more complex - somewhat higher purchase price and operating costs can become more challenging to control - due to the number of toners a colour device uses.
Most times the usage between colour and B/W is about 20% colour and 80% B/W? If your colour usage various it's important to plan accordingly and ensure you have the right service plan? What are the rates? Traditinal vendors always want to charge you per click howerver Leppert also offers significant savings using incident based service plans.
When the decision involves multi-function print devices you should consider the speed, size and options that you require. How will you use the device? A lot of scanning? How many users? or is it part of a multi device fleet?
Finally today's MFP's like your cell phone offer productivity Apps software to enhance the way the device can be used. What of the available tools can you use? Who will be the power users to benefit most? How can you fine tune your business and document workflows to maximum value from your purchase? Often a complimentary walk thru can by us, can uncover productivity gains and efficiencies.
Making the best selection with an understanding of what you can obtain from this kind of purchase is really enhanced when you work with a partner who has experience deploying the capabilities of these advanced MFP's. Too often people start from the question of how much will it cost without really determining how much value can it provide? Take the time to learn what the maximum capability of your potential purchase might be rather than just focus on replacing the status quoe of what you had and you will definitely benefit more in the long run.
