Kyocera 2160 T

The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles

Costs per page are quite good: 8.9¢ for a color page and

1.4¢ for black. Those costs are very impressive for a low-

cost printer and makes this machine worthy of a second

look.

This is a decent printer, but while it would have been a

strong competitor a year ago, it has now been outgunned

by newer introductions. The consumables costs alone

might make this a very good buy if you are interested in

asmall workgroup printer.

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TallyGenicom 8026

26ppm full color

36ppm black & white

Sum-up: Very good speed on a proven platform.

The TallyGenicom 8026 is a fast color laser printer that

offers 26ppm speed in color and 36ppm speed in black-

and-white. It has a street price of $999. It is based on the

same Fuji Xerox engine as the Konica Minolta magicol-

or 3300 family,which sells for considerably less.

The unit comes with 128MB of memory and you can

upgrade it to 256MB. It is powered by a 533MHz proces-

sor. PostScript is a standard feature. Ethernet and USB

connectivity are standard.

Like many other color printers, this one has a 150-sheet

bypass and a 500-sheet paper tray.You can add up to two

more 550-sheet paper trays or a 1,500-sheet tray. The

bypass handles heavy stock paper. Output consists of a

single 250-sheet tray.

Price per page is 10¢ for color and around 2.3¢ for

black-and-white. Those are quite good prices,so you may

want to figure out if you run high-enough volumes to

overcome the high sticker price for the printer itself.

This is a good enough model, but it has a lot of compe-

tition in its range,most notably Xerox Phaser 7300, based

on a newer and faster version of the same engine. The

8026 deserves a look, and should do well in

TallyGenicom’s government-oriented channels.

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TOSHIBA

Irvine, CA

949 583 3000

www.toshiba.com

Vendor Profile

Toshiba, a huge Japanese electronics company, is a rela-

tivelysmall player in the office equipment market.

Toshiba makes fax machines and copiers,and has recent-

ly entered the color laser printer market. Its current mod-

els are relabeled versions of Lexmark color printers,

including one that has recently been discontinued by

Lexmark. Toshiba’s partnership with Lexmark is part of

astrategy to offer a broader range of devices to its cus-

tomers, whichis especiallyimportant when it comes to

bidding on large multi-machine deals. Toshiba has intro-

duced relabeled versions of Lexmark’s monochrome

laser printers as well. Note that Toshiba prices for

machines and options are list. They tend to have prices

similar to Lexmarkequivalents,but you’ll have to negoti-

ate consumables with your dealer. All Toshiba models

come with Ethernet included. You can add duplexers,

memory, and paper trays to match other Lexmark mod-

els in the respective families.

Product Profiles

Toshiba e-STUDIO205CP

20ppm full color

20ppm black & white

Same Machine as the discontinued Lexmark C524dn

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TallyGenicom T8026N

Consumables costs at-a-glance

Price

Yield

Full-color cost per page

Black-and-whitecost per page

Blacktoner $99.00 8,500 $ 0.012 $ 0.012

Cyan toner $154.00 6,000 $ 0.026 N/A

Magenta toner $154.00 6,000 $ 0.026 N/A

Yellow toner $154.00 6,000 $ 0.026 N/A

Drum/4-color $349.00 30,000 $ 0.012 $ 0.012

TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS

$0.1003 $ 0.0233

10.03 2.33

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