I've had more than one copier repairman refer to the Canons as the 'tanks' of the industry, and that is true in my experience. Everyone will have a favorite, but the Canons get my vote for just plain working.
David On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > We have 2 of the Konica C350 Bizhub's. One is a piece of junk part of the > year and works okay the rest of the year. They are the same age installed > the same day by the same tech. Biggests issues are sales person "forgot" to > mention they were EOL when they were sold, the scanning feature requires an > open share on a machine some place to get it to scan anything, its presets > for scanning quality don't allow for any change (you have only 3 dpi > settings pdf and only a couple for either tiff or jpg each. Our staff > listened to the sales person and did not hear what they said I guess because > to get the machine to talk to a Mac would cost us an additional $2k+. Other > than that they seem to run well but don't trust the numbers they give you > for service loads. Heavy loads seems to just beat the machine to death. Oh > and don't forget that the counter is based on passes the paper makes. If it > is two color then in this model that means two passes. Their tech support > generally seems to keep them selves 2 - 3 years BEHIND what is current. > When Vista came out they had no driver support and had not even begun the > planning for doing that. Their reasoning was that Windows 98 SE and Windows > 2000 worked good why would anyone change? > > Jon > > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for the OT but I figure the knowledge on this list would be >> helpful. >> >> We are currently in the process of evaluating copiers. We currently have >> Canons and we have been pretty happy with them. We have had other brands in >> the past but the Canons were probably the most reliable. Currently we are >> looking at Savin and Konica Minolta as well. The Savins have some really >> nice features but I was wondering how reliable they are. Anyone have any >> comments on either of these two brands? Oh and how about Sharp? >> >> James >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- David _____________________ If you don't want to stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them. ~ Redneck saying ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
