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Caswell

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I need 11 x 17 laser printer. Trying to decide between:

HP 5200TN - $2270
Ricoh AP610N - $1995 + cost of 2nd tray ($500?)

If the manufacturers tell the truth, all the stats seem pretty equal. Our normal salesmen keeps talking down the HP, but I just found out he doesn't even sell HP.

Personally, I'm leaning HP. He have a lot of HP printers at work, and they've all worked good.
 
SpicyMcHaggis said:
i'm trying to install the drivers on my HP3052 and in 45min i've gotten fucking nowhere



fuck this shit
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Is it just taking "forever"? I had an officejet all in one do that. Kill the install and download just the driver package from HP all the "other" programs the full/express install wants to install are crap anyways.
 
houston said:
We use HP and have had good luck. We sell higher end ricoh equipment and that shit is rock fucking solid

its a toss up
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I have had the opposite experience at work. The Ricoh printer and copiers have been junk and the HP printers have been solid.

On the other hand the newer HP inkjet I purchased for home was a pain to install and a friend purchased another model and he never got it working.

I think it is a toss up also.
 
All inkjets are stupid.

Moving on, both Ricoh and HP should be about the same quality-wise. Remember HPs have a higher TCO than most other brands.
 
drivers off interweb, cuz the last time i tried installing it from the CD, it took legitimately 1hr 15min.

now it's refusing to even locate the printer :(
 
Is konica minolta not an option? Always thought their machines were solid, but have had little experience.
 
HP drivers are a little strange, I'll give them that. Our 42" plotter has issues from time to time, but they seem to work themselves out.
 
I've never worked with the large HPs but I know the Ricohs are very nice having hands on time with them. Not that exact model but a similar one. I'd go with the Ricoh.
 
1,000 pages...that's a high estimate for an average month. Well under the rating of almost any quality printer.
 
yeah, that is not many at all...

Do you have a copier in the office? For people that print so little we just have them print to our digital copiers (Which do up to 11x17).

Otherwise, I would say the HP is probably your best bet. Kyocera doesn't have anything that competes with it really (Low usage, large paper size)
 
DVADER said:
yeah, that is not many at all...

Do you have a copier in the office? For people that print so little we just have them print to our digital copiers (Which do up to 11x17).

Otherwise, I would say the HP is probably your best bet. Kyocera doesn't have anything that competes with it really (Low usage, large paper size)
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We have a copier for the office, but it isn't in my office...it's up half a flight of stairs. Ontop of that, we didn't buy the PC interface option...

All the votes seem to be pretty even. I'm leaning a bit towards HP...I like the HP salesmen, and the Ricoh salesman is an ass.
 
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention... Any salesman that pulled shit like that, I'd kick straight out the door.
 
my family owns a printing company and we resell pretty much every brand

depending on where youre located i might be able to get you a deal

i am in ohio
 
LGBR said:
my family owns a printing company and we resell pretty much every brand

depending on where youre located i might be able to get you a deal

i am in ohio
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I'm in Canada...BC to be exact. Shipping and duty would probably eat most of the savings you could give me. Thanks for the offer though.
 
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