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Maintenace agreements? there are no supplies except the ink. No drums no fuser no nuttin'
I would be interested in reports on CQ. I saw a couple on line for the printers and they said generally that the blacks were gray and the colors light. Further that Ricoh planned it that way becasue of the duplexing capability.
However, the technology is characterized as "fast drying" to eliminated smears.
I have an HP Deskjet that duplexes, the colors are bold and deep, It doesn smear when duplexing becasue it casues the copy to halt for a few seconds before pulling it back in to duplex.
Anybody else have any facts or opinions on this?
We were part of Ricoh's trial on these and put 4 of them out on customer sites for a few months. Overall the feedback was good. Print/copy quality was what you would expect from an inkjet. It was OK. We did not have any service issues except for clogged print heads. The process to clean the heads is intended to be a customer responsibility. There will need to be some training to get the customers use to doing this on a regular basis.


Surprisingly the few issues we did have were media related. Some types of 20lb paper bled though terribly while others didn’t. We found a 24lb inkjet paper that worked real well. Another issue was glossy “photo paper”. The ink would not adhere to the photo paper and would just smear.

On bright spot is it ran envelopes with wrinkling them.


The customers we selected for the trial were customers that did not have any existing color system or were already using primarily ink jets for color. As I mentioned the feedback was good but I suspect some of the positive feedback was generated by the fact that they were getting free color copies and prints. Would they have been so positive if the had to pay for the ink? That is the question.

Another question is were is this going to fit... Why would one go with the 615C vs. an Aficio 2016 and a CL410? Duplexing, 11X17 color capability, Color scanning, are the major advantages but at what cost for supplies? It seems to be a pretty narrow market to me.

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