Ricoh vs Canon

[PrintTastic]

Let me first say that we are not a production printing business. I work for a business who prints a lot of material that is displayed to the public, however they are typically stored behind plexi-glass, so color quality is not the utmost importance, but we do want nice color reproduction.

We are currently within the last few months of our lease, a 3 year lease on Canon copiers, which by the way have been the least reliable machines I have worked with. Our current color copier, Canon iR C3380, was taken offsite and rebuilt and since it returned its color prints have been terrible, with blues looking like purple, etc.

We were given a Ricoh as a replacement, which we were impressed with, so we have decided to consider them as our new copier solution. We have taken quotes from some of the vendors around and the most bang for the buck seems to be with Ricoh, versus Canon and Xerox.

We have been quoted one of the newer machines that Ricoh has to offer, an Aficio MP C6501SP and the fact that it was just released has me nervous. This color copier will be our in-house color solution for our customer facing material and I don't want to get stuck with a bad, untested device.

Does anyone here have experience with that system? We have had many test prints done and the quality of its output seems to be on par with the Canon copier we have been quoted, a Canon iR C5030.

Thanks for any feedback given in advance.

 

[msaeger]

The MPC6501 is identical to the MPC6000 except for a few parts. The MPC6000 was an update to the Aficio 3260. So I wouldn't call it a new model.

 

[artpost]

The only difference from the mp c6500 to the mp c6501 is the addition of PPDM. Paper Port Digital Manager or something like that, it's software that now comes with the unit. Otherwise hardware speaking the units are identical.

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[salecha]

Let me first say that we are not a production printing business. I work for a business who prints a lot of material that is displayed to the public, however they are typically stored behind plexi-glass, so color quality is not the utmost importance, but we do want nice color reproduction.

We are currently within the last few months of our lease, a 3 year lease on Canon copiers, which by the way have been the least reliable machines I have worked with. Our current color copier, Canon iR C3380, was taken offsite and rebuilt and since it returned its color prints have been terrible, with blues looking like purple, etc.

We were given a Ricoh as a replacement, which we were impressed with, so we have decided to consider them as our new copier solution. We have taken quotes from some of the vendors around and the most bang for the buck seems to be with Ricoh, versus Canon and Xerox.

We have been quoted one of the newer machines that Ricoh has to offer, an Aficio MP C6501SP and the fact that it was just released has me nervous. This color copier will be our in-house color solution for our customer facing material and I don't want to get stuck with a bad, untested device.

Does anyone here have experience with that system? We have had many test prints done and the quality of its output seems to be on par with the Canon copier we have been quoted, a Canon iR C5030.

Thanks for any feedback given in advance.

Greetings. Happy New Year in advance. Whether you bought Ricoh 6501 and what is your experience.How much you paid for the equipment & what are click charges. This info will help me. We have seen a demo of Ricoh C6501 & liked it. Thanks.