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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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KYOCERA
Fairfield, NJ
800 222 6482
www.kyoceramita.com
Vendor Profile
Kyocera Mita America, which now brands its printers
under the Kyocera name, has built a reputation in the
market as a manufacturer of rugged high-volume depart-
mental printers with low operating costs. These are stur-
dy units with excellent features, but they tend to cost a lit-
tle more than the competition. In a tough market,
Kyocera is holding its own, but it is under the gun to keep
improving its models and lowering its prices to keep up
with the competition.
Kyocera models offer excellent value when it comes to
suppl
y costs
, an important advantage for heavy users.
The reason for this is the durability of the drums offered
with the printers, drums that are built to last three or four
times longer than those of rivals. That durability trans-
lates into lower operating costs.
Kyocera products are sold through the company’s copi-
er dealer network as well as through value-added resellers
(V
ARs).
Product Profiles
Kyocera FS-C5015N
17ppm full color
17ppm black & white
Kyocera FS-C5020N
17ppm full color
17ppm b
lac
k & w
hite
K
y
ocera FS-C5025N
22ppm full color
22ppm black & white
Kyocera FS-C5030N
26ppm full color
26ppm b
lac
k & white
Sum-up:
Outstanding per
-pa
g
e costs mak
e this a g
r
ea
t c
hoice
for busy offices that output lots of pages.
As w
e w
ere going to press, we learned the FS-C5020N was being
discontin
ued.
These models are Kyocera’s second-generation entries
i
nto the LED color printer arena, replacing the FS-
C5016N. The $1,759 (estimated street price) FS-C5020N
runs at 17ppm in both black-and-white and color and is
powered by a 400MHz processor, while the $2,099 FS-
C5030N runs at 26ppm in both modes and has a
600MHz processor. Prices were not available at press
time for the new FS-C5015N (which appears to be an
enhanced version of the FS-C5020N, and like that model
runs at 17ppm in color and black-and-white) or the FS-
C5025N (which runs at 22ppm in color and black-and-
white). We estimate street prices for the FS-C5015N and
FS-C5025N to be around $1,400 and $1,600,
respectively.
Otherwise these models are identical. They all come
Ethernet-ready, and PostScript and PCL are standard as
well. That makes them both serious workgroup
machines. Memory starts at a very generous 128MB, and
it can be increased to a total of 1GB (640MB on the FS-
C5015N and FS-C5025N), making these units capable of
the most complex, multi-copy print jobs we can imagine.
These models have quite respectable paper-handling
capa
bilities. The
y support letter- and legal-size output
and come with a 500-sheet paper tray and a 100-sheet
multipurpose tray, suitable for printing on transparencies
and heavier stock.
You can add up to three 500-sheet
trays for a total of 2,100 sheets (except on the FS-
C5015N, which only allows for one additional 500-sheet
tray). Kyocera also offers an optional envelope feeder
with a capacity of 70 envelopes for the C5015, C5025,
and C5030N
. Ther
e are few other models with dedicated
envelope feeders in the color printer market, though they
Kyocera FS-C5030N
Consumables costs at-a-glance
Price
Yield
Full-color cost per page
Black-and-white cost per page
Black toner $72.00 8,000 $ 0.009 $ 0.009
Cyan toner $109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A
Magenta toner $109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A
Y
ello
w toner
$109.00 8,000 $ 0.014 N/A
Maintenance kit (includes drums,devel-
opers, rollers)
$618.00 200,000 $ 0.003 $ 0.003
T
O
T
AL PER-P
A
GE COSTS
$ 0.0530 $ 0.012
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