Can anyone recommend a heavy duty all-in-one printer?

[fencepost]

10,000 pages a month? There is no store-bought printer that can run consistently in that league.

Well, there is but it costs more than I think these folks want to spend. For the volume they're doing I'd actually highly recommend that they split their printing and fax across two devices, or depending on what's generating the output even just assign a "high volume" printer to one group and have a multifunction for faxing and "regular" office printing.

Printer-wise, you're looking at the HP LaserJet M604n (5k-13k, CDW: Around $700), M604dn ($750), M605n (5k-16k, $1000), M605dn ($900) or for a multifunction the MFP M630h (CDW: Around $2800)

The MFP M630h is actually a much higher monthly volume (5k-28k) than the others I listed, but just adding the multifunction capability really ramps the price up anyway, and they don't appear to need that level of faxing. I'd check what the toner cartridge options are for these (at least one takes a high-volume cart good for 25,000 pages) for cost per page, then get them a high-volume printer and another of the Brother devices they've been killing off.

Looking a bit, I'd really push for the M605n or M605dn - those take the 81X high-yield cartridge (25,000 pages/$250 = $0.01/page) where the cheaper printer only takes the 81A cartridge (10,000 pages/$150 = $0.015/page). At their volume and based on Amazon prices for official toner, the better printer will save them $600/year in toner so they'd make up for the higher price tag on the printer in just 6 months.


Edit: Just a note - HP isn't the only company that's a possibility. Lexmark has printers in this category, even Dell has printers in this category that might be worth a look (I have customers happy with Dell printers, but they're not doing this volume). The Dell B3460dn is only $430 right now, and takes an extra-high capacity toner, but the cost is still $0.015/page for it so the higher-end HP is still a winner over time. Higher-end Dells have the same issue with toner being more expensive (and harder to get)

 

[mr m]

There was a time when the duty cycle figures actually meant something. Now it's just marketing BS and you can figure the realistic number is 10% of that.

Everyone hear is right on. You're not going to find the printer you need at Best Buy or Staples that can handle 10,000 pages a month. You are going to spend over $1,500. You are going to spend more on the maintenance kits than what people want to spend on the printer. Stick with OEM cartridges.

You really do get what you pay for with printers. I have a client that I bought a used HP 4300 B/W laser for around 5 years ago. It was already 5 years old but the seller refurbished it with a maintenance kit and all I did was install it for 3 users. I've since replaced the power supply (after a lightning storm) and a system tray that broke when it was inadvertently dropped it but it just runs and runs. He averages between 5 and 10 K pages a month.

I think new this printer is $2,000.


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[ComputerPro]

The cust didn't want another monthly printer service (they already have a ginormous printer rental in the main area.)
They went with a Xerox 3615DN. Has recommended monthly of 12,000 pages. 110,000 for the duty cycle but like everyone said its the recommended count that matters.

The printer lists for around $1,000 but found on Amazon for $680-$700. Not bad at all really. They also picked up the 3 year Square Trade plan for $55.00.
Only time will tell now lol.

 

[fencepost]

They went with a Xerox 3615DN.

That's not terrible, toner is a bit high at $335 for 25k pages ($0.0134/page) but with the cheaper printer the break-even vs the HPs is at around 1 year/120k pages.

 

[ComputerPro]

Well, there is but it costs more than I think these folks want to spend. For the volume they're doing I'd actually highly recommend that they split their printing and fax across two devices, or depending on what's generating the output even just assign a "high volume" printer to one group and have a multifunction for faxing and "regular" office printing.

Printer-wise, you're looking at the HP LaserJet M604n (5k-13k, CDW: Around $700), M604dn ($750), M605n (5k-16k, $1000), M605dn ($900) or for a multifunction the MFP M630h (CDW: Around $2800)

The MFP M630h is actually a much higher monthly volume (5k-28k) than the others I listed, but just adding the multifunction capability really ramps the price up anyway, and they don't appear to need that level of faxing. I'd check what the toner cartridge options are for these (at least one takes a high-volume cart good for 25,000 pages) for cost per page, then get them a high-volume printer and another of the Brother devices they've been killing off.

Looking a bit, I'd really push for the M605n or M605dn - those take the 81X high-yield cartridge (25,000 pages/$250 = $0.01/page) where the cheaper printer only takes the 81A cartridge (10,000 pages/$150 = $0.015/page). At their volume and based on Amazon prices for official toner, the better printer will save them $600/year in toner so they'd make up for the higher price tag on the printer in just 6 months.


Edit: Just a note - HP isn't the only company that's a possibility. Lexmark has printers in this category, even Dell has printers in this category that might be worth a look (I have customers happy with Dell printers, but they're not doing this volume). The Dell B3460dn is only $430 right now, and takes an extra-high capacity toner, but the cost is still $0.015/page for it so the higher-end HP is still a winner over time. Higher-end Dells have the same issue with toner being more expensive (and harder to get)

They have a spot in the surgery office for only 1 device really which is why they wanted an all in one unit. Otherwise the 605dn's look very nice. The only thing about their recommended numbers is why such a huge spread? 5-28,000 pages? Puts the low end number in line with much, much cheaper devices.

 

[fencepost]

Keep in mind that the one with that 5-28 range is a multifunction, and these are being targeted at large companies where they may want to standardize on only 1-2 models while putting them in multiple departments. They obviously have lower-end multifunctions, but I didn't see anything that was in line with the M604/M605 - the others are a step down.