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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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The printer isn’t lacking in other features. Ethernet is
standard as is automatic duplexing. The processor is a
robust 400MHz, and PostScript and PCL are standard.
The printer ships with 128MB of memory, and you can
extend that to 1,152MB.
We estimate the cost per page as excellent: 8.7¢ in color
and around 1.0¢ in black-and-white. These are well below
average and match the costs of far more expensive mod-
els from other vendors. The black page price is particular-
ly attention-grabbing.
Paper supplies consist of a 150-sheet bypass and a 500-
sheet paper tray. You can buy either a 500-sheet or a
1,000-sheet add-on as well. One limitation, and it is com-
mon in this market segment, is its small 250-sheet output
tray.
But the low prices and good speed make this a very
desirable small-office/home-office laser machine. Based
on toner prices, it looks to be reasonable in terms of oper-
ating costs.
You should also look at the Lexmark C770n, which is
slower in black-and-white and color, but comes with
Lexmark’s more extensive software offerings.
This is a pretty basic workgroup printer, but its price
and speed ar
e real selling points. This machine is a bar-
gain and has ignited a rush by other vendors to lower
prices.
Chart entry — page 71
GESTETNER
Greenwich, CT
203 967 5000
www.gestetner.com
V
endor Profile
A while back, Gestetner was merged into Savin, which is
a subsidiary of Ricoh. Gestetner was best known as a
vendor of digital duplicators, especially in the school,
c
hur
ch, and government markets. Nowadays it also sells
r
elabeled Ricoh printers, copiers, and fax machines under
the Gestetner brand through a network of dealers. It pre-
viously used a series of direct-sales branches as well, but
these have been merged into Ricoh’s direct organization.
Note tha
t Gestetner announced the names of
its thr
ee
printer
s based on the Ricoh GelSprinter series. These are
the GX3000, the GX3050N, and the GX5050N. These
correspond to the similarly named Ricoh products on
page 39.
Product Profiles
Gestetner P7431cn
8ppm full color
31ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio CL1000N
Chart entry — page 71
Gestetner C7521n
22ppm full color
22ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio CL3500N
Chart entry — page 72
Gestetner C7526dn
26ppm full color
26ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio SP C410DN
Chart entry — page 72
Gestetner C7528n
Gestetner C7528nD
28ppm full color
32ppm black & white
Same f
amil
y as the Ricoh Aficio CL7200
Chart entries — pages 72–73
Gestetner C7531dn
31ppm full color
31ppm b
lac
k & white
Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio SP C411DN
Chart entry— page 73
Gestetner C7535n
35ppm full color
35ppm b
lac
k & w
hite
Same Mac
hine as the Ricoh Aficio CL7300D
This model has been discontinued
Chart entry — page 73
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