Kyocera’s entry level black-and-white printers
May 7, 2009 by Steve HannafordPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Printer Reviews
You won’t find Kyocera laser printers at your local Best Buy or Office Depot — the company sells through its dealer chains.
And while Kyocera list prices are higher than those of the competition, they always have a cost-per-page proposition that is among the best in the business.
That’s true for Kyocera’s entry-level monochrome lasers, the 30ppm FS-1100 and FS-1300D. And though the 30ppm speed used to be typical of medium-sized workgroup models, these two come as desktop printers that can be upgraded with a network card to serve a small workgroup.
The FS-1100 sells for a list price of $316, while the FS-1300D sells for $530. The two models are based on the same platform, but the FS-1300D has a larger optional paper supply, standard duplexing and different supplies.
Kyocera uses a separate drum unit that’s rated for 100,000 pages for both of these models. The FS-1100 uses a 4,000-page toner supply that produces a page for about 1.8 cents. That’s excellent for a desktop printer, since competitive models approach 3.0 cents or more.
The deal for the FS-1300D is even better, with a 7,200-page toner-only cartridge that will run about 1.2 cent per page. That’s a cost per page you can only find on competitors’ highest-speed departmental models and, of course, on other Kyocera models.
For a full review, see the Better Buys for Business Office Printer Guide.
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Tags: black and white, FS-1100, FS1100, Kyocera
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August 12th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Another nice and low running costs machine.I have been using Kyocera Mita machines for some time and have always been very pleased with them. They are user friendly and easy to operate. Ok , in the early days the fusing capabilities of the older version printers of this make wasn’t great but has now come a long way.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Cost per page is awesome on these little desktop machines. What I like most about them that the toners are so easy to exhange and that there is no messing around with additonal drum or process units that need changing on a regular basis. Made it a lot easier to explain to everyone in the office…