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Here in Australia Ricoh provide an excelent spreadsheet CPC calculator which you can put in a variety of variables into, such as split of volume mono and colour, toner coverage, split of A4/A3 etc So you can calculate what copy cost you need to charge to make it viable. We have sold our first one and are concerned whether we will be able to make any money Everyone here charges A3 as single click. From parts perspective,as it feeds A3 sideways, it really is only 1.5 x cost of A4 for parts and main consumables. Although Toner coverage is definitly double for A4. Also 90% of sales are to Printers who do all their printing Oversize A3 and cut it down. A freind has sold 3 - all to printers- of the previous model and toner coverage averages 80% i.e. 20% per colour. He is a country dealer and can get away with charging double for A3 as no competition. Whereas being closer to main City, we compete with all the direct and big guys, so absolutley no way, can we charge double for A3 as everyone charges single click. Oce even charge one click for duplex A3!!
Unless the volumes are so high and reliability is awesome, I have a strong feeling these machines will end up costing us money. As I am a firm believer, in "Turnover is vanity and profit is sanity" I will seriously be keeping a very close eye on profitability before I go out and sell too many of these machines. I am positive we will make far more money on the high volume standard Ricoh MFP's It's just that the new Ricoh Production machines are awesome beasts with what they can do and thge quality they produce.
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Originally posted by big g:
From parts perspective,as it feeds A3 sideways, it really is only 1.5 x cost of A4 for parts and main consumables. Although Toner coverage is definitly double for A4. Also 90% of sales are to Printers who do all their printing Oversize A3 and cut it down.


I don't follow your logic. The machine can either put 2 A4 pages through (2 clicks) or it can put 1 A3 page through in the same amount of space/parts wear. The cost is most definitely double.

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