Kyocera 2160 K

The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles

KYOCERA

Fairfield, NJ

800 222 6482

www.kyoceramita.com

Vendor Profile

Kyocera Mita America, which now brands its printers

under the Kyocera name, has built a reputation in the

market as a manufacturer of rugged high-volume depart-

mental printers with low operating costs. These are stur-

dy units with excellent features,but they tend to cost a lit-

tle more than the competition. In a tough market,

Kyocera is holding its own,but it is under the gun to keep

improving its models and lowering its prices to keep up

with the competition.

Kyocera models offer excellent value when it comes to

supply costs, an important advantage for heavy users.

The reason for this is the durability of the drums offered

with the printers, drums that are built to last three or four

times longer than those of rivals. That durability trans-

lates into lower operating costs.

Kyocera products are sold through the company’s copi-

er dealer network as well as through value-added resellers

(VARs).

Product Profiles

Kyocera FS-C5015N

17ppm full color

17ppm black & white

Kyocera FS-C5020N

17ppm full color

17ppm black & white

Kyocera FS-C5025N

22ppm full color

22ppm black & white

Kyocera FS-C5030N

26ppm full color

26ppm black & white

Sum-up: Outstanding per-pagecosts make this a great choice

for busy offices that output lots of pages.

As we were going to press,we learned the FS-C5020N was being

discontinued.

These models are Kyocera’s second-generation entries

into the LED color printer arena, replacing the FS-

C5016N. The $1,759 (estimated street price) FS-C5020N

runs at 17ppm in both black-and-white and color and is

C5030N runs at 26ppm in both modes and has a

600MHz processor. Prices were not available at press

time for the new FS-C5015N (which appears to be an

enhanced version of the FS-C5020N, and like that model

runs at 17ppm in color and black-and-white) or the FS-

C5025N (which runs at 22ppm in color and black-and-

white). We estimate street prices for the FS-C5015N and

FS-C5025N to be around $1,400 and $1,600,

respectively.

Otherwise these models are identical. They all come

Ethernet-ready, and PostScript and PCL are standard as

well. That makes them both serious workgroup

machines. Memory starts at a very generous 128MB, and

it can be increased to a total of 1GB (640MB on the FS-

C5015N and FS-C5025N), making these units capable of

the most complex, multi-copy print jobs we can imagine.

These models have quite respectable paper-handling

capabilities. Theysupport letter- and legal-size output

and come with a 500-sheet paper tray and a 100-sheet

multipurpose tray,suitable for printing on transparencies

and heavier stock. You can add up to three 500-sheet

trays for a total of 2,100 sheets (except on the FS-

C5015N, which only allows for one additional 500-sheet

tray). Kyocera also offers an optional envelope feeder

with a capacity of 70 envelopes for the C5015, C5025,

and C5030N. Thereare few other models with dedicated

envelope feeders in the color printer market, though they

Kyocera FS-C5030N

Consumables costs at-a-glance

Price

Yield

Full-color cost per page

Black-and-whitecost per page

Black toner $72.00 8,000 $ 0.009 $ 0.009

Cyan toner $109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A

Magenta toner $109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A

Yellowtoner $109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A

Maintenance kit (includes drums,devel-

opers,rollers) $618.00 200,000 $ 0.003 $ 0.003

TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS

$0.0530 $ 0.012

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