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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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a
bove, though they are (of course) faster. What is out-
standing is the strong paper-handling capability, includ-
i
ng paper weights up to 90lb. index. These models handle
12" x 18" paper, so that you can print two pages at a time,
with room for trim marks and bleeds. All models have a
monthly duty cycle of up to 200,000 pages.
The CL7300 family has four variations and all units
come with automatic duplexing:
● The base model CL7300D ($5,095 list), which starts
with 1,100 sheets of input
● The CL7300DT1 ($5,995), which adds a third 500-
sheet drawer for a total of 1,600 sheets
● The CL7300DT2 ($6,740), which adds a fourth 500-
sheet drawer for a total of 2,100 sheets
● The CL7300DL (also $6,740), which adds a 2,000-
sheet stacker
As with the 7200 family, all of the 7300 printers are
powered by a 733MHz processor. They start with 256MB
of memory, expandable to 512MB. One unusual feature
is a 40GB hard disk standard on all models
. Tha
t allows
you to run very complex jobs.
These machines come with Ethernet and USB connec-
ti
vity standard. You can get a parallel port as an option.
Wireless options are Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. There’s also a
Gigabit Ethernet option. In addition, there’s a PictBridge
option f
or dir
ect connection to digital cameras
.
PostScript and PCL printing are supported, as is direct
PDF printing
.
Eac
h machine has a 100-sheet multipurpose tray and
two 500-sheet trays to start with. All handle ledger-size
paper. There are four 500-sheet trays available, or a com-
bination of two 500-sheet trays and a 2,000-sheet feeder.
That adds up to a maximum of 4,100 sheets of input.
The options for output are better than those for many
color printer
s
.
You start with a 100-sheet bypass tray and
a 500-sheet standard tray. You can then add a finisher
with a capacity of 2,000 sheets. It can staple up to 50
sheets at a time in several positions. Another option is a
1,000-sheet saddlestitcher/booklet maker. It can produce
booklets up to 50 sheets eac
h.
A hole-punching unit,
ca
pable of making two or three holes is another option,
but only if you have one of the finishers.
There is a scanner unit available, the SI3000, that lets
you upgrade this printer to a multifunctional.
As with the CL7200, color pages run at about 6.6¢,
w
hile black pages cost around 1.3¢. These are among the
best costs-per-page in the industry. If cost-per-page is the
most critical issue
,
y
ou should also look a
t the K
y
ocer
a
m
odels in this guide.
While this is an excellent family, you should look close-
ly at Ricoh’s CL7200 printer. Those printers are a little
slower and have no standard hard disk, but otherwise are
pretty much the same machines. You may find that added
speed is not worth the extra money. If it’s raw speed that
you want, the OKI Printing Solutions C9800 models are
even a bit faster, with more memory. They don’t have the
booklet maker option, however, and cost more than the
CL7300 models.
This is an outstanding printer family with top-of-the-
line features. If you need a combination of top speed and
a booklet maker, it is the best choice on the market.
Chart entries — pages 110–111
RISO
Danvers, MA
978 777 7377
www.riso.com
Vendor Profile
RISO is a leader in the specialized w
orld of digital dupli-
cators, but it has extended its product line to printers. The
company is a subsidiary of RISO Kagaku Corporation of
Japan. RISO was the original inventor of the digital
duplica
ting process
, a pr
ocess some
wher
e betw
een copy-
ing and of
fset printing. (See our
High-V
olume Printer &
Digital Duplicator Guides
for more on this process and
RISO’s other products.)
In the past few years, RISO has been selling convention-
al printer
s and m
ultifunctional machines that are versions
of Lexmark products. Among their many features, they
offer a way to share a single controller between a printer
and a duplicator. Print jobs processed by the controller
that are within the duplicator’s cost-saving run-length
range are sent to the duplicator, while short-run jobs are
sent to the printer or multifunctional.
RISO distributes its digital duplicators through a broad-
based netw
or
k of
dealer
s and dir
ect-sales br
anc
hes
.
Discontinued Models?
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but they usually have been covered in previous issues.
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