DC 2045 vs WC 7655 & cost per page??

[kristianeyman]

Hello,

can anyone out there tell me the pros ans cons of these two machines? i crrently have a dc 6060, and have had constant problems with it due to the oiling system (many broken fusers). looking for something along the same production. thanks, also can anyone tell me what I should be looking at for cost per page on these three machines without paper?

 

[X33]

The DC2045 is like going backwards from the DC6060, it still uses fuser oil and it was launched before the DC6060 like 10 years ago.

The WC7655 is an office color machine. It's equivalent would be the DocuColor 252.

In what country are you?

 

[jotterpinky]

I don't know much about the 2045 but we have a small satellite shop that uses a WC7655 for walk-up copies and it's a great machine for what we're doing. It's the same marking engine as the Docucolor 242/252/260 series but without a real RIP. We find it works great for off the glass copies and the prints are pretty good. However the software running it seems a bit buggy...e.g. it will reboot it's print server (same as a bustled RIP without any options) in the middle of print jobs and it takes forever to start up...sometimes as long as 15 minutes before anything can be printed. (this seems to be some problem with connecting to it's print server). If you do any sort of production printing you will definitely want to go with a machine that has a real RIP so you have calibration, profiles, color workflow, etc. However it does get the job done if you aren't looking for those types of features and it gives great looking prints for most files. We bought it because we wanted a Docucolor 242 but couldn't afford to spend the extra money for what we planned on using it for.

 

[jotterpinky]

almost forgot about the price per page issue. We started out paying 0.079 per color click about a year ago with 0.0089 for black and white which was some promotional thing they were doing. The color click rate wasn't great and you could definitely get a much better rate on a 242.

 

[kristianeyman]

thanks both for the reply! i am currently in mexico and running a 6060 and 2 dc12's. I have had numerous problems with fuser rollers and thermostats with both machines. In hindsight I should have bought 2-250's and never looked back! So I am trying to look to the future and no as many problems, so thinking about a 7655, as they can be found cheap, and or a 240/250. Should I be more profitable running 1-2 240/250's vs my dc6060 i I am under 10K impressions a month? thanks again, kristian,