Copier/printer vs duplicator

[elfidito]

Hi,
this could sounds a litle stupid, but im confused:

Witch is the basic difference between a copier machine vs a duplicator?
Why is better to use a copier engine based for printing business than a duplicator one?
can any one give me some "light" in this?

 

[X33]

Hi,
this could sounds a litle stupid, but im confused:

Witch is the basic difference between a copier machine vs a duplicator?
Why is better to use a copier engine based for printing business than a duplicator one?
can any one give me some "light" in this?

print a high res file on both and you'll see the difference. the xerographic technologies are different.

 

[Keith]

I agree. Several months ago, I was considering a duplicator. I gave the sales rep two files to test print for me- one with just line art and the other with high res photos. He didn't even bother to bring back the samples with the photos. He said it didn't look good.

 

[overscan]

Duplicators can be great for single colour text and line work. Halftones/photos will usually be rubbish compared to xerox/canon etc. We have a ricoh duplicator which we use for carbonless sets, v cheap leaflets and newsletters.