Of Service:
Duplex, color and networking, as well as printing costs, which come at least in the realm of ultra cheap now larger inkjets (ie less than 1-2 cents per color page excluding paper).
SELECTION:
The choice was between Dell C2150dn, Dell C2660dn networkable color laser printer with duplex function (600 x 600 dpi), OKI C301dn / 321/501, Brother HL-3170CDW / Brother HL-3172CDW High speed duplex color printer (2400x600 dpi, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi) white / dark gray and the sister models Kyocera Ecosys P6021cdn color laser printer and white Kyocera Ecosys P6030cdn color laser printer knows of reviewed here P6026cdn. Due to bad experiences did not come HP (very expensive to outrageous in maintenance) and Epson (unreliable) for us this time in question. Lexmark and Xerox have not the necessary market penetration in order to procure the private use at any time quickly and easily spare parts and consumables.
COMPETITION:
The Brother impress with the highest functionality at the same time very, very low weight. Unfortunately image drum and transfer belt do not last long and must therefore be replaced frequently (sometimes only 15,000 pages). In addition, it falls short of the speed for duplex printing, in which the speed extremely breaks.
The older Dell 2150 toner has favorable rates in however small capacity and is somewhat unreliable, the recent 2660 is supposed to manage a printing experience without new image drum. But which holds only about 60,000 pages and replacement is then difficult to obtain.
The Oki are ok and captivate with ultra-low standby power consumption combined with good functionality, but the toner prices are simply too high.
So were the Kyocera. We test, initially decided on the basis of the expected print volume for the medium model P6026cdn, yet already flirted with the larger P6030cdn which we will acquire by our positive impression after half a year of P6026cdn soon (prospective for P6026cdn we have already found).
PRO:
+ Warranty on image drum, developer, transfer belt: 2 years, 200,000 pages with very many bring-in service points (Standard). On-site service, we have not, because the next Kyocera dealer and technician is less than 5 km away.
The expected life with genuine toner with regular maintenance and service contract amounts to according befreundetem Copy Shop Leaders> 500,000 pages (Original toner, however, for private users, as opposed to commercial users hardly affordable. Even the price of a Rainbowset exceeds the cost of the printer)
+ Solid processed with metal exactly where it really matters, such as in the paper tray (with unfortunately thereby resultant high weighing about 30kg)
+ Duplex, duplex, duplex (with acceptable speed drop)
+ Relatively large toner capacity (7000 pages Black, 5000 pages color). Compatible with XL cartridges 9000 pages Black and 7,000 pages color for under 20 euros eg "Eurotone" on eBay. XL Rainbowset for about 75 euros.
+ Calculated side price of compatible toner thus only about 0.22 cents (BK) and approximately 1 cents (colored with 5% coverage per color). Other parts in the printer must be replaced not unlike its competitors (or are the replacement toner in waste toner collector =)!
+ 500 sheet paper tray already at delivery. Simple paper packing a 500-sheet tearing and insert. Upgrade option to 2,000 sheet available.
+ Can large quantities special paper such as transparencies, labels, etc. printed with the optional paper feeder PF-530 (500-sheet, 3 installed)
+ Subjective for a color laser very good photo quality due to multi-bit technology. This allows the toner color and per pixel in 16 different strengths apply. Therefore results in CMYK 2 ^ 16 = 65536 shades of color per pixel at 600 dpi and is therefore not advertised quite wrongly as virtual 9600dpi. Large areas are absolutely free of streaks and homogeneous. Individual points (eg by dithering) are also in exotic colors barely visible even with a magnifying glass (Except of course very, very bright colors such as cyan einprozentiges).
+ Very good driver support, each with several available for selection drivers for all major operating systems including. Eg, Linux and Mac OS (and even Windows XP). Due to the four different printer languages for all needs and drivers of other printers and also foreign printer manufacturers can be installed: PCL 6 (5c, XL), KPDL 3 (PostScript 3 compatible), PDF Direct Print 1.7, XPS Direct Print
+ Good printer driver with a very extensive variety of settings. We have installed the so-called. KX driver. For example covers can automatically be drawn from the approximately 50 pages comprehensive second paper tray or an installed PF-530 per driver selection. Thus, it is eg possible to print automatically booklets that use for the cover paper other than interior pages. (Use KX driver).
Also very useful is the ability individual applications to assign fixed pressure profiles: So always come at the request emails in black and white and duplex, while images from Photoshop or Corel are automatically printed in the highest quality in color, without having to specially in the driver settings would. Anyone who wants to can the generic KX driver the way even without installing the printer before buying in order to learn about the settings.
+ Three-stage toner consumption mode (Eco, Normal, Normal + Glossy). So that is efficient print or great result.
+ Sufficient faster print processor with sufficient RAM (512MB). When printing documents with mixed text, tables, graphics and photos, the speed of 26 pages / minute copy of the work at least almost reached (about 20 pages / minute) and also falls in duplex printing compared to the competition only slightly from (approximately 14- 16 pages per minute).
+ Built-in web server for configuration and management of the printer with extensive security features, but without the ability to protect printouts via PIN against unauthorized access. In the more advanced features you get with username "admin" and password "admin" (without the quotes of course)
+ My e-mail address of the printer configured with built-in PDF direct printing, maintenance alerts and on request even its own mail server, as well as built-in document management and user permissions. Unlike cheaper printers, the document must be prepared not only via web service for printing, even when printing from your mobile device.
etc. etc.
CONTRA:
- Initial confusion can select multiple different printer driver due to the possibility of not knowing where the advantages and disadvantages of each are. We have installed the KX driver without XPS and this extends to the PDF plugin
- Printed documents can be assigned a PIN, which protects them from the physical access
- WLAN module completely overpriced (No problem, because we simply an AVM FRITZ! WLAN Repeater 300E (300 Mbit / s, Gigabit LAN, WPS) as a bridge use)
- Quality settings of the printer when smartphone apps not fully available
- Weight
- Dimensions
NEUTRAL:
- We can understand in any way the alleged difficulty installing. When inserting the toner It took about 15 seconds for you could assign the appropriate locking slide from the image description and has pushed back, but that's about it for now. The printer was included unpacking in a few minutes on the network and ready for use. The CD we did not even used, but downloaded right from Kyocera the latest printer driver. The App for smartphone and tablet namely "Kyocera Mobile Print" was the first in each store by typing "Kyocera" listed as a search term.
- The smell at initial usage is already borderline, however, has taken us more than a minute or two during the initial self-test and was then quickly disappeared. That's more or less normal and other devices often much, much worse. The Kyocera is after all one of the few with the "Blue Angel" excellent color laser.
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