Phandalyon
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OK, I am debating in my head what to do here.
In the office I work we do a lot of scanning and a lot of copying.
Currently we are using an HP Laserjet 4200 and a Brother HL4200CN for our printers. They are both right around 25ppm and the brother does color at 25ppm.
For scanning we are using 2 HP 8850 scanners with doc feeders.
We do some scanning (<100 pages a day) every day, but can on occasion do more than 1000 in a day.
My boss is looking at a new copier, but I am not sold that we realy need it. Admittedly our copier is old and slow, but I am not completely convinced that we need a new one.
Most of what the copier is used for is when something is printed on our HP laser the person will take the printout to the copier and make copies. It makes more sense to me to just print multiple copies to start with as the copier really has no special features like collating or stapling.
As for the scanning, the copier my boss is looking at will scan 50ppm. This is nice, but I am looking at document scanners that are just as fast for half the price is the copier. The other point with this is that I am not sure that anyone would want to stand at the copier for 1000+ page scans. The Document scanners are small enough to hook up at a desk.
IT seems to me that with our combination of printers and a good document scanner it would be more efficient than forking out the cash for a new copier.
So, am I missing something or does my plan seem OK. We could use the printers more and have the current copier as a backup since it still works fine. And then we would have a much more robust scanning solution. It just seems a waste of money to me to fork out for a copier to gain printing speed when we have 2 fast printers and to gain scanning ability when we can get that far more cheaply.
Am is there some type of duty cycle or durability issue that would make the copier a better choice?
For document scanners I am looking at a Fujitsu FI-5530C with a duty cycle of 3000 pages per day.
In the office I work we do a lot of scanning and a lot of copying.
Currently we are using an HP Laserjet 4200 and a Brother HL4200CN for our printers. They are both right around 25ppm and the brother does color at 25ppm.
For scanning we are using 2 HP 8850 scanners with doc feeders.
We do some scanning (<100 pages a day) every day, but can on occasion do more than 1000 in a day.
My boss is looking at a new copier, but I am not sold that we realy need it. Admittedly our copier is old and slow, but I am not completely convinced that we need a new one.
Most of what the copier is used for is when something is printed on our HP laser the person will take the printout to the copier and make copies. It makes more sense to me to just print multiple copies to start with as the copier really has no special features like collating or stapling.
As for the scanning, the copier my boss is looking at will scan 50ppm. This is nice, but I am looking at document scanners that are just as fast for half the price is the copier. The other point with this is that I am not sure that anyone would want to stand at the copier for 1000+ page scans. The Document scanners are small enough to hook up at a desk.
IT seems to me that with our combination of printers and a good document scanner it would be more efficient than forking out the cash for a new copier.
So, am I missing something or does my plan seem OK. We could use the printers more and have the current copier as a backup since it still works fine. And then we would have a much more robust scanning solution. It just seems a waste of money to me to fork out for a copier to gain printing speed when we have 2 fast printers and to gain scanning ability when we can get that far more cheaply.
Am is there some type of duty cycle or durability issue that would make the copier a better choice?
For document scanners I am looking at a Fujitsu FI-5530C with a duty cycle of 3000 pages per day.