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More thoughts: 1.1 million impressions per month 2 xerox 1000 machines, so we'll say 175 impressions per minute. (I've never met a machine that could keep it's pace all day every day. They all stop for something.) That equates to about 25 hour a week of machine time. If you have a machine...

Last I checked, KM prints were difficult to coat. Most people have to heat them up with IR lights before coating them so the coating will adhere to the toner. Good luck!

My initial thoughts: 1) What are you paying per month for printing right now? 2) How are your publications distributed? Mail? a. If mail, who's going to handle the addressing/sorting/sealing for you? 3) Do you have the space and electricity for these machines? 4) If you're spending...

Static Electricity?

My user experience is limited to the canon imagepress c7000vp but I've seen demos and talked to users on the KM, Ricoh, and Xerox equipment. Unless things have changed, good luck UV coating the output from the KM machines. Their toner has historically had lots of wax in it, which makes it hard...

around 40k (Well worth it!)

I waited to talk to my staff before answering your questions. I don't have all the answers either. We haven't put through enough envelopes/paper to burn through the original supplies that came with the machine. (Only done about 16,000 so far) and I'm showing 40% toner life and 61% drum life...

Go into debt in order to "save" on taxes. I know that's "conventional wisdom" in the accounting world, but spending more money on interest than you save in taxes makes no sense in the human world. It results in less money in your pocket, and that's opposite of the end goal. Pay cash up front...

Now do yourself a favor and get the whole "leasing" thing out of your brain. It's a trap, and they suck up your money. If you can't pay cash, you don't need it. (Especially in your business!) My next machine will cost about $90,000 and I'm saving up to pay cash for it. It's going to take a...

I don't have any envelopes that size, so I just cut down a few sheets of paper to 5.125" wide x 3.625" tall and they ran through flawlessly.

Oki 941 is like $20,000. Oki 931 is about $4,500. Difference: Clear toner (not gonna use it on envelopes) and having a fiery rip for processing jobs. For what you're doing, I don't think either are necessary. The new Oki printers use an image transfer belt, so paper never touches the drums...

1) What are you paying now for your 2 lease payments? 2) What's your budget going forward? 3) Have they offered you a buyout amount yet? I've had companies say to me: "20% of the purchase price" and I've also had companies say: "you can keep it with no buy out" That was a good day!

As an example, here is a link to my Mimaki wide format printer where you can see its specifications. CJV30 Series | Specifications | MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD. Just to make it easy, here is a paste from the site: Operation environments 20°C~35°C, 35~65%RH (No condensation) RH = Relative...

Even the 80ºF is too hot, and the humidity is too low. Think comfortable office. 70º with humidity around 40-50% all the time. No fluctuations. My Mimaki printer is upset even at 30% humidity Anything else and you're going to keep destroying equipment. Step 1: Create a very controlled...

If you want high quality, short run, and don't mind it being slow, the Canon ImagePRESS C1+II is a great option. It only runs around 7 13"x19" Heavy stock impressions per minute, but the image quality is FANTASTIC. The last I checked, paper registration is only accurate to 2mm (kind of a wide...

I don't have the Oce but I got a demo on it. The black isn't the blackest, but they went to great lengths to eliminate wear parts (Grids, corona wires, fuser section, etc.) so the machine just runs and runs. I have a few local print buddies with them and they all swear by them. One of them is...

I have a Duplo dc-646 in house right now on demo and it's pretty impressive. We expect it will cut the workload on the guy who runs our challenge cutter by about 60-75%. We cut a lot of business cards, tent cards, notecards and postcards, and this machine seems to handle all of that extremely...

If you're looking at the Canon had you considered the Oce b&w machine?

It was easy to cost justify the price of the C931 when I factored in envelope waste and lost productivity trying to figure out why things didn't look good. (replace toner, then drum, then clean this part, and that part, and blah blah blah) The drum price went up and the toner went down. When I...

I also started with a canon pixma printer and then moved to a Lucidiom eq-9800 that I converted back to Oki C9800 spec (so it uses Oki Toner and Drums, not Lucidiom) but I got tired of all the issues that these machines have and upgraded to the brand new Oki C931. It was about $4600 for the...