Recent content by MarkPalmer

I wish I could offer a solution to those with this problem. I can say for sure that after testing a 11x17 50% black halftone, the problem they are encountering is NOT normal for these machines. I see no vertical (down the 17" length) banding in my copy whatsoever. There is a VERY light...

With 310k clicks, I am still very pleased with the C751, this has been night and day compared to the C700. I have had only one service call, that was for uneven across the sheet print density on cyan and magenta. This ended up of all things being a firmware problem that was quickly corrected...

Over the past year it seems the drum quality has become much better and they last the full life without unacceptable degradation of print quality. The year prior that was not the case, and I was swapping them out with about 20% of indicated life left for various problems. -Mark-

I have found it easier to deal with Xante problems through our local agent rather than deal with Xante on the phone, but Xante has returned all my calls to them and has tried to be helpful. I have found the Xante Illumina is extremely "supply sensitive;" if there are any issues with the drums...

Thus far, the C751 lives up to the things that Ricoh claims it is capable of doing. It's not perfect in the sense of perfect register, 100% perfect print quality, (evidenced by the slight banding on one job), or other attributes one might think of when comparing the prints to those printed off...

Again excuse my camera phone photos, but it's just to give you the idea of some of the things you don't see in the brochures. Inside front covers: http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398110_324325360920704_288314487855125_1206319_1352763506_n.jpg Register area. Uses stepper...

Pix was just quick shot from my camera phone. If I remember to bring my good camera in to work tomorrow, I'll take some shots inside the print engine area. Neatest "visible" points are sheet register area and the post fuser decurler roller. -Mark-

We had our C751EX installed on 12/12, and I have ran it for the past 8 days, putting close to 60k meter clicks on it. So far I'm very impressed, as it blows our old Ricoh C700 clear away. I have ran tons of 28# 8.5x11 and 11x17 duplexed, 80# 11x17 full coverage posters, and a big 8k sheet run...

I'm still waiting for our C751 to arrive and be installed. I's been my philosophy thus far as a printer that if you NEED super high quality, really high speed and excellent registration it won't be found in a digital copy machine, I always expect some type of compromise. It will be interesting...

A couple of possible reasons. MICR printing has declined by a huge percentage over the last 20 years. I used to work at a bank in-plant where we printed MICR ink on offset and I witnessed the rapid decline there. If something isn't real popular, printer manufacturers aren't interested in its...

I don't see what the advantage would be to double fusers, at least not in this type of color printer. Just sounds like more heat and more parts to wear out to me. One big thing to keep in mind is the C651/751 are intended as light production color machines, not a cheaper way to get in to or...

Thanks for the demo report, it sounds pretty good. We print several 11x17 posters that have a lot of black background, and thus will put that issue to the test. Our graphic artist has been able to adjust file settings to compensate for black banding problems with the C700, along with its other...

I'm not expecting the type of registration a printing press with a pull guide and actual headstops can deliver, and I think that is still a while off for these types of printers. But from what I have read and heard the Ricoh system is very decent. I'll be going through the training on the C751...

I wish I could have two machines, but I'm fairly safe to say that wouldn't fly on the budget we have here. We have a smaller Ricoh printer that can stand in as a backup in emergencies, and Ricoh/Ikon service is fairly quick here in Erie. Just having a machine like the C751 with CRU's we can...

We have a C751EX on order where I'm at, it should be installed and in operation within the next couple of weeks. I will let the forum know how it's working. It's replacing a small Ricoh C700. -Mark-