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1,000, and 1,500 sheets. The FS-C8026N-B has a 150-

sheet bypass tray and three 500-sheet paper trays.Despite

the fact that these machines have quite different paper

handling, they still have the same list price.

In addition, both machines have a variety of optional

output devices. There’s a five-bin mailbox unit with room

for 150 sheets in each bin. There’s a 3,000-sheet finisher

with multiposition stapling of up to 50 sheets. This print-

er family also features a saddle- stitched unit for making

booklets. You can supplement that with a punch unit,

which can support 2/3-hole punching. There’s also a

folder available for the booklet maker.

Costs per page are extremely low, especially for color.

Our reckoning gives us a price of 5.2¢ for color, around

1.0¢ for black. These are outstanding, making these print-

ers very competitive in the market.

On the other hand, these are among the most expensive

color laser printers in this guide. That’s partly because

Kyocera bundles so much in terms of paper handling

with them. If you subtract the value of these options, you

get prices closer to those of other high-end color lasers.

The FS-C8026N models are somewhat slower than

some of their top competitors, including the Ricoh

CL7200 and CL7300 models and the OKI Printing

Solutions C9600/C9800 printers.

If you’re certain you’ll run lots of pages and wince at

the thought of paying 8¢ or more per page, these models

arean excellent buy.On the other hand,if you are spend-

ing this much money,you might want to look at some of

the fine multifunctional copiers documented in our Color

Copier Guide, machines that have similar features and add

copying and scanning to the printing capability.

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LANIER

Atlanta, GA

800 708 7088

www.lanier.com

Vendor Profile

Lanier, a major office equipment distributor, was

acquired by Ricoh in early 2001. Ricoh had already

acquired Savin and Gestetner,and Lanier was an obvious

target since it relabeled a number of different Ricoh

machines under the Lanier name. So far, the company

operates independently from the other Ricoh divisions,

but that may change.

Lanier mostly sells direct and concentrates on larger

buyers through its direct-sales force; however,it also has

some dealers. Lanier is a service-intensive supplier. Its

prices include delivery, installation, training, and initial

supplies.

Note that Lanier announced the names of its three

printers based on the Ricoh GelSprinter series. These

arethe GX3000, the GX3050N, and the GX5050N.

These correspond to the similarly named Ricoh products

on page 39.

Product Profiles

Lanier LP031c

8ppm full color

31ppm black & white

Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio CL1000N

Chart entry — page 91

Lanier LP222cn

22ppm full color

22ppm black & white

Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio CL3500N

Chart entry — page 92

Lanier LP226cn

26ppm full color

26ppm black & white

Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio SP C410DN

Chart entry — page 92

Better Buys for Business

Kyocera FS-C8026N

Consumables costs at-a-glance

Price

Yield

Full-color cost per page

Black-and-whitecost per page

Black toner $99.00 25,000 $ 0.004 $ 0.004

Cyan toner $90.00 10,000 $ 0.009 N/A

Magenta toner $90.00 10,000 $ 0.009 N/A

Yellow toner $90.00 10,000 $ 0.009 N/A

Drum/black $1,093.00 600,000 N/A $ 0.002

Drum/4-color $1,093.00 150,000 $ 0.007 N/A

Developer/black $288.00 300,000 $ 0.001 $ 0.001

Developer/3-color $1,020.00 300,000 $ 0.010 N/A

Charger unit $20.00 100,000 $ 0.000 $ 0.000

Oil kit $49.00 25,000 $ 0.002 $ 0.002

TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS $0.0516 $ 0.0089

5.16 0.89