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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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Ricoh Aficio CL7200
Ricoh Aficio CL7200D
R
icoh Aficio CL7200DT1
Ricoh Aficio CL7200DT2
Ricoh Aficio CL7200DL
28ppm color
32ppm black & white
Sum-up: Speedy, feature-rich ledger-size printer family with
low operating costs.
The Ricoh Aficio CL7200 family offers high speed and
excellent features, including the capability to print at
ledger size and produce folded booklets. Running at
28ppm in color and 32ppm in black-and-white, it offers
excellent paper handling at reasonable prices (starting at
$3,495) for the base model.
The CL7200 family has five configurations. They are:
● The base model CL7200 ($3,495 list), which starts
with 1,100 sheets of input.
● The CL7200D ($3,795), whic
h adds a duplex unit.
● The CL7200DT1 ($4,995), which adds a third 500-
sheet drawer for a total of 1,600 sheets.
● The CL7200DT2 ($5,695), which adds a fourth 500-
sheet dr
awer for a total of 2,100 sheets.
● The CL7200DL (also $5,695), which adds a 2,000-
sheet stacker (replacing two of the 500-sheet drawers)
for a total of
3,100 sheets.
All of
the units ar
e po
wered by a 733MHz processor.
They start with 256MB of memory, expandable to
512MB. A 40GB hard disk is available. The estimated
monthly duty cycle is a maximum of 200,000 pages.
Ethernet and USB connectivity are standard for all
models
.
Among the options ar
e
W
i-Fi, Bluetooth, gigabit
Ether
net,
and e
ven a parallel connection.
Input starts with a 100-sheet multipurpose tray and two
500-sheet trays. You can add up to two more 500-sheet
trays, or a 2,000-sheet large-capacity tray. The bypass will
handle up to 90lb. bond, while the standard drawers are
limited to up to 28lb
.
bond.
As noted a
bove, 11" x 17"
pa
per can be handled.
Output is where this model gets exciting. The standard
output is a 100-sheet bypass tray and a 500-sheet stan-
dard tray. The options include a multiposition finisher
tha
t can handle up to 2,000 sheets and sta
ple up to 50
sheets
. Alternatively, there’s a 1,000-sheet booklet maker
that can create saddlestitched booklets of up to 50 sheets.
You can add a 2/3-hole punc
h to either unit.
As with other Ricoh printers, the costs per page are
quite low: around 1.3¢ in black and 6.6¢ in color. These
ar
e excellent costs, with few rivals in the printing segment
doing better.
Ricoh has had a good track record in producing afford-
able, feature-laden ledger color laser printers. The
CL7200 models combine very good speed, strong paper
inputs
, excellent finishing options, and a heavy-duty
cycle. In addition, the price is very reasonable compared
to far less able ledger printers. The CL7200 is a very good
buy that is deserving of our Editor’s Choice Award.
Chart entries — pages 107–108
Ricoh
Aficio GX3000
Ricoh
Aficio GX3050N
29ppm color
29ppm b
lac
k & w
hite
Ricoh Aficio GX5050N
30ppm color
30ppm b
lack & white
Sum-up: New laser-quality GelSprint machines are out-
standing bargains.
With Ricoh’s rollout of three new color printers using its
r
e
v
olutionar
y GelSprint tec
hnology, the company has
tak
en a major lea
p in the industr
y-wide quest to de
velop
inexpensive laser-quality color machines with the low
purchase price of a low-end ink jet printer.
Ricoh Aficio CL7200/CL7300D
Consumables costs at-a-glance
Price
Yield
Full-color cost per page
Black-and-white cost per page
B
lack toner
$
60.00 20,000 $ 0.003 $ 0.003
Cyan toner $134.00 10,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Magenta toner $134.00 10,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Yellow toner $134.00 10,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Drum/black $115.00 40,000 $ 0.003 $ 0.003
Drums (3)/3-color $365.00 40,000 $ 0.009 N/A
Developer/black $97.00 80,000 $ 0.001 $ 0.001
Developer/3-color $330.00 80,000 $ 0.004 N/A
Fuser $460.00 80,000 $ 0.006 $ 0.006
TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS
$ 0.0663 $ 0.0128
6.63 1.28
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