Xerox 7002 vs Konica c8000

[blacktoner]

Hello everyone,

we need to change our xerox 252 with a printer more efficient. Our choice is between the Xerox 7002 and the Konica Minolta c8000. What do you think are the good points of both, such as productivity per hour, color fidelity, technical assistance, hardware technology, duplex precision?

Thanks in advance for your help

[Craig]

Without having any experience with the C8000 I would give it a real good hard look over the 7002. I have heard a lot of issues with the 7002/8002.

[vaugh6288]

I can say from experience that the 7002 is not that great of a machine. We purchased one in Dec. 2009 and had never ending problems with color consistency and black half tone quality issues. We ended up swapping the 7002 for the new Xerox 800 just last month. The 800 is amazing. I can honestly say that we are extremely happy with the 800. So if I were you I would check out the 800 over Konica.

[blacktoner]

My own doubt is due to the many problems that I heard about 7002. The Xerox 800 is a great machine, but its cost is much more than the c8000.

[vaugh6288]

I understand the cost factor, but you do get what you pay for with these higher end color presses and I'm telling you it's worth it. Plus you can downsize the 800 by about 20-30k just by not adding the clear varnish unit. That's what we did and we can always add it later if we want. BTW, I don't mean to be pushing the 800 so much I just would definitely stay away from the 7002.

[Josh]

In the UK we're so far only being offered the Xerox1000... based on the prices I've seen if they launched the 800 here a 4colour version of this would be roughly the same price as a KM8000.

However...

If you look at all the specs/features of the machines the KM8000 comes out on top AND the click costs on the Xerox 800/1000 seem to be far higher than other Xerox kit.

[X33]

If you look at all the specs/features of the machines the KM8000 comes out on top

can you please elaborate more on this?

[Josh]

can you please elaborate more on this?

8bit imaging
built in densitometer/calibration
ability to run higher stock weights
ability to run offset stocks

[blacktoner]

After a demo done on a machine already installed, we have definitely ruled out the 7002. We dont liked the decurler, banding some oil on pages with a black background. The machine that we watched after a few thousand copies had been changed the developer. In early January we will do tests on the c8000.

[ShortRunMagazines]

Just my opinion, but I would steer clear of the 800/1000 for at least a year. Ours is broken into pieces waiting on the truck to come pick it up. After 45 days of install, we finally cut the cord and told them to pick it up. (They wanted till February to *try* some prototype parts that may/may not fix the banding issue.) I can't speak for the Fiery, but the FreeFlow Rip is very buggy and does not always work stably. I printed 65 sheets of 50% half tones and due to the issues we've had, it took over two hours of reboots and waiting to get them out. That was on the beloved Xerox 24# Digital paper (LTR Size) named in the CED and it still had bands in the print. (The bands are SUBSTANTIALLY worse in Gloss Coated sheets.)

I have 2 DC5000s and get about a half million 12x18 clicks out a month. We will either add a third one of those or a Ricoh C901 (the Demo machine is being delivered on Tuesday for the 901 -- fingers crossed)...

Agreed on the 700x/800x series machines, I have seen their output and think it is worse then a DC5000.