Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Laser printer and photocopier in one?
Summary: Laser printer reliability
Message-ID: <2524@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 17:21:18 GMT
References: <17394@cornell.UUCP> <314@elan.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 33

In article <314@elan.UUCP>, kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) writes:
> > Actually, in my search for such a beast, I visited an accounting
> > office here at Cornell that was using the Xerox 4045 laserprinter/
> > photocopier. The 4045 costs about $6,000, which is reasonable, but the 
> > appropriate Xerox service contract is is a rip-off.
> > 
> 
> But I can buy:
> 	1 HP LaserJet Series II		$1650
> 	1 Cannon PC-25			$ 800
> 					-----
> 					$2450
> and save $3550.  Am I missing something?

	Yes.  My organization has had a Xerox 4045 for two years.  This
one shared laser printer produces virtually all _formal_ documentation
and correspondence for my organization; it is left on 24 hours per day.
In two years, we have _never_ had a paper jam, and have had exactly
one service call (to replace a memory expansion board).  The optical
registration on this laser printer has neither changed nor required
adjustment in two years.
	A $ 1,650 laser printer is simply not that rugged or reliable.
Period.  You get what you pay for.

	With respect to the combined copier/laser printer issue, I
believe that the two should be kept separate.  We did not opt for the
copier option on the Xerox 4045.  Why?  Because it keeps the laser
printer "simpler", and presumably more reliable. 

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