We started a small in house printing operation for our marketing company a couple of years ago with a canon c1+. We run mostly 11 x 17 - 13 x19 flats, occasionally duplex and almost always full coverage on gloss coated on 100# text for posters and 80# cover for handbills.
The C1+ proved to be too slow, and not robust enough for our duty cycle. We then moved to an IR 7055, but that had significant problems with being able to duplex our gloss coated stock and both machines were using more toner than Canon had anticipated in their services agreements, so we were being force into a la carte purchases on top of clicks.
We're looking to solve all of these problems with an other new solution and canon has brought us the ip 6000 and KM suggests the bizhub c6000. Anyone have experience with either? Is this truly an apples to apples comparison? Canon claims that the KM machine is not truly "production quality".
Any advice would be appreciated.
-j
The C1+ proved to be too slow, and not robust enough for our duty cycle. We then moved to an IR 7055, but that had significant problems with being able to duplex our gloss coated stock and both machines were using more toner than Canon had anticipated in their services agreements, so we were being force into a la carte purchases on top of clicks.
We're looking to solve all of these problems with an other new solution and canon has brought us the ip 6000 and KM suggests the bizhub c6000. Anyone have experience with either? Is this truly an apples to apples comparison? Canon claims that the KM machine is not truly "production quality".
Any advice would be appreciated.
-j