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Old 03-04-2007, 03:01 AM
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Default Can current model Ricohs compete with the print quality of Canon or Xerox?

Can any current-model Ricoh printers compete with the color and finish quality of current Canon Imagerunners or Xerox Docucolors?

Do Ricoh machines still run dirtier?
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Old 04-20-2007, 01:22 PM
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Ricoh's run much cleaner now. The color quality on a Ricoh CAN compete with Canon and Xerox. Ricoh has yet to release an answer to the Graphic machines from Canon or Xerox. On a business color level, ricoh is very competative.
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Old 06-23-2007, 07:05 AM
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Ricoh's run much cleaner now. The color quality on a Ricoh CAN compete with Canon and Xerox. Ricoh has yet to release an answer to the Graphic machines from Canon or Xerox. On a business color level, ricoh is very competative.
Business being the key word here. Of course it can produce good quality copies that any manager would be happy printing his TPS reports cornflower blue logo on. But quality? It's hard to compete with 2400 Dpi...
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On top of that Jeff, look at service and downtime. Service is debatable but the quality of the machine is not. The last revision of their color machines were running so hot they were warping the frame! Our B+W Ricohs can't run anything but light text on 80# cover, and die anytime we put any sort of load on them. It's not a single problem, but an engineering one inherent in Ricoh's designs.

Jeff, you are a commercial printer right? Not a office manager or a designer, but someone who will be running 12x18 12pt and expect that damn machine to run correctly! Even if the image quality got up there it wouldn't fit your business model.
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