Xerox Versant...
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kdw75
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We had an initial consultation. We have had our C75 for 6 months, and we have over 800K large clicks on it. The salesman is telling us that it is going to bring us heartache down the road with that kind of volume, and that the Versant was what we needed.
He said that he would look into the incentives available and get back to us with better pricing in the Fall. His prices right now were around $5K a month, which seems outlandish to me, considering we could get 3 C75s for less than that per month.
He said that he would look into the incentives available and get back to us with better pricing in the Fall. His prices right now were around $5K a month, which seems outlandish to me, considering we could get 3 C75s for less than that per month.
kdw75
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It does worry me a little, that the Versant is a new design, loosely based on the Color Press 800/1000. I suspect it will have a fair number of bugs because of this.
The advertising was that it would be around half the cost of the Color Press 1000, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case. Maybe they are making deals on the 1000, since it has been around a while, where as the Versant is their new baby, and they are trying to recoup the design charges on the initial buyers.
UK Printer
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I saw some of our work printed on this press just last week, rep came in with samples. We have a Kodak Nexpress, very expensive machine to run, considering using the versant for the commodity print (leaflets, flyers etc) and using the Nexpress for the very high accuracy stuff (spot UV work and large sheet stuff).
Click price was rock bottom, very impressive costings (this is in the UK) and the quality was really good too, bearing in mind this press is RATED to handle 350gsm, very interesting machine, could do well for Xerox methinks.
Thats my 2 cents (well 2 pence anyways )
Tim
Click price was rock bottom, very impressive costings (this is in the UK) and the quality was really good too, bearing in mind this press is RATED to handle 350gsm, very interesting machine, could do well for Xerox methinks.
Thats my 2 cents (well 2 pence anyways
)Tim
kdw75
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At our present volume of 130K clicks per month, and with the initial figures they gave us on the Versant. Each color click would cost us almost twice as much as they do on our C75. The machine cost and service were 3 times what the C75 was, both had external Fiery's, OHC feeders and square fold trimmers. And the click charge was over a penny more per click. Now if our volume was higher, the machine, and labor cost wouldn't be so bad, but according to Xerox, 130K/month is right in the target range of this machine.
And I guarantee you that 3 of the C75s could turn out more work.
They need to get some reasonable discounts on this machine, or cut the click charge.
And I guarantee you that 3 of the C75s could turn out more work.
They need to get some reasonable discounts on this machine, or cut the click charge.
kdw75
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We are at .038 for all sheet sizes up to 13x19 on our C75. I had expected the click charge to be the same or less on the larger machines, but I was wrong.
I talked to someone, who claimed they were getting .03 per click on their 1000.
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