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    1 year ago

    Wait, are we talking about the same printer?

    These were beasts man, going through 40k pages withought a hitch.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that and another model. It’s frequent enough that there are videos on YouTube on how to replace it. That part would wear down around 30k pages, or once a month for our fleet of printers; there were several hundred of those printers on the network. Minimum 2 hours of work for that part. We went with Ricoh and Xerox for the next contract and the reliability was better.

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        Maybe, I’ve only had experience with a few of them, not hundreds… never had any problems with the swingplate. Feeder rubbers, yes, but that’s a common problem on all printers, you just sand those down a bit and they work like new.

        These can still be pretty good if used for home printers, 30K pages without a problem, that’s a lot for home use. You could probably still get one of these for like $100 second hand. That’s not a bad deal considering how good these things are.

        Ricoh are great, but I’ve had bad experience with Xerox. Xerox used to be great, but they dropped in quality the last decade or so. Ricoh are still great though.