Showing posts with label copier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copier. Show all posts
Monday, April 8, 2013
Sharp AR 337 Monochrome Copier
Starting as a basic medium-volume, space efficient copier, the Sharp AR-337 has options to expand it to a high-volume scanner/printer/finisher. 15% faster than its older sibling, the AR-287, the 337 can copy up to speeds of 33 ppm. It’s able to handle paper sizes up to 11” x 17” double-sided, and the option to hold six reams of the more commonly used letter-size paper.
PROS:
The large touch-screen LCD control panel makes using the Sharp’s operation easy to understand and with the online information guide help users through most operations and jamming resolutions. An animated display assists in giving step by step instructions.
Two 500-sheet trays allow for printing onto sheets as large as 11” x 17”. If this enough paper capacity, two more oversized 500-sheet trays can be stacked underneath the AR-337, and a 3,000-sheet 8½” x 11” high capacity tray attached its side, bringing total capacity to over 5,000 sheets. A 50-sheet bypass tray allows for unique low volume printing of heavyweight, transparencies, or labels.
Another nice feature the AR-337 has is the ability to physically shift the position of each set of copies in the output tray for easy collating and stapling. This is achieved by pressing the Electronic Sort (or E-Sort) button on the control panel. The multi-page original is scanned first into memory, and then copied in order.
Monochrome copies up to 13” x 19” can be made directly on the glass platen, or using the Duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). The duplexing ability of the ADF allows for making copies from 2-sided originals without having to manually flip the papers. Zoom scales from 25% to 800% with a choice of 1% increments, automatic resizing, or in twelve jumps. Up to 999 copies can be reproduced. Resolution and print speeds are spec’d at 600 x 600 dpi up to 28 pages per minute, with either text or image digital enhancement modes. Copies are at 256 level grayscale, for making color graphics still visible in B&W.
The AR-337 is able to make copies of originals that have up to 120 pages. Other copiers just set the limit to the physical limitations of their ADF. Sharp’s Job Build mode allows the AR-337 to handle quantities typical for business users.
16MB of expandable memory and a 4.2GB hard drive enables this Sharp to handle any size print request and to securely save jobs to the hard drive. To easily delete anything saved on the storage, two simple keys are available to automatically or manually erase stored data.
Two optional Finishers can give the AR-M355 basic stapling and sorting features. Additional options are controller cards to add 600 x 1,200 dpi network printing and PostScript support to the AR-337.
CONS:
The AR-337 is a very good copier. However, the ability to add printing and scanning cards after the fact may be beyond the technical abilities of its end-users, requiring a Sharp field engineer. And even with the multi-functional options, there are less expensive mid-range multi-functions that with faster and higher print quality.
INK / TONER NEEDS:
The AR-337 comes with a “starter” toner cartridge, but it carries more than enough toner to give you enough time to purchase a full cartridge with a yield of about 22,000 pages.
Other consumables to consider will be are the drum unit and the used toner bottle.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Konica Minolta C652 Color Copier Review
Konica Minolta C652 is a color photocopy machine. It uses electrostatic laser copy method for copying and printing. Color copy/print speed is 65 for A4 monochrome and 50 CPM for color. It can magnify the prints from 25% to 400%.
The copier guarantee period is 5 years or 3,500,000 prints. Black toner cartridges prints 45,000 A4 size paper at 7% while color toners print about 27000 pages. Toner can be replaced by users in a very simple way. Just open the front door, release the cartridge liver and pull in out to replace with a new one. The machine does not recycle the waste toner, so waste toner box must be cleaned/replaced every 57000 copies.
User can change many other parts himself without calling a technician. These parts are prepared as a kit and should be replaced as a set of two parts listed below:
Imaging unit K + Color toner filter
Fusing Unit + Ozone filter
Transfer Belt Unit + Transfer Roller unit.
The machine is equipped with printing option. Print resolution is equivalent to 1800X600 dpi using PCL 6 c and postscript 3 page description languages.
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