We have an opportunity to purchase a used Imagepress C1 with less than 200k clicks (100k colour, 81k black). Regular service by Canon and no major issues from its service record. The machine has been in storage for the past 6 weeks. We have the option of a maintenance contract (not through Canon) for 14 cents a click or sourcing parts ourselves and paying a tech. per visit for the difficult stuff.
We currently print less than 5k clicks a month - flyers, photobooks, brochures, mock-ups for offset work. Speed of the machine is not really an issue, more interested in quality. These are currently done on a Xerox Phaser 7760 machine, which is a fairly easy machine to obtain parts for and maintain ourselves.
What are your thoughts on the C1 and do you think its an upgrade machine that would suit our needs based on the above info? We looked at similar spec Xerox and Konica machines, but the rental cost is too much based on our current workload.
We currently print less than 5k clicks a month - flyers, photobooks, brochures, mock-ups for offset work. Speed of the machine is not really an issue, more interested in quality. These are currently done on a Xerox Phaser 7760 machine, which is a fairly easy machine to obtain parts for and maintain ourselves.
What are your thoughts on the C1 and do you think its an upgrade machine that would suit our needs based on the above info? We looked at similar spec Xerox and Konica machines, but the rental cost is too much based on our current workload.