Hi folks,

This seemed the best newsgroup in which to ask, but if anyone has
pointers to other reliable resources, please feel free to note them.

Our data center currently runs two Canon ImageRunner 60 and one
(evaluation) ImageRunner 6020. Each is rated at 60 pages/minute; the
60s are rated, as I recall, at 120,000 pages/month and the IR-6020 is
rated at 230,000 pages/month.

1: With regard to a rating of 'x impressions per month', how do
printer or copier/printer manufacturers determine a 'printer-month' or
'copier-month'?

We pushed about 500,000 sheets of paper through one of the IR-60s last
month and had roughly 900,000 total impressions from required
duplexing.

2: If a printer is used at a level substantially lower than its
nominal rating for an extended length of time - 5 or 6 months for
example -, is the risk of hardware malfunction greater than with
'normal' usage?


3: I'm aware that the page/minute rating is for some 'ideal' scenario
which most users will not experience.

Our typical page/minute volume is about 40-50 ppm at best and can drop
to about 7.5 ppm when the printer is fed several single-document PDF
files.

Might anyone have suggestions for other good, reliable networked
printers with a real-world production capability of 200-500
pages/minute, fast imaging of PDFs, and 500,000 to 1,000,000 (possibly
higher) impressions per month ?

All advice is greatly appreciated.

Ron Cook
roncook@verizon.net

In message <eq0pj0dcm0fd95ffm488us9oagja7b4nra@4ax.com>, Ron Cook
<roncook@verizon.net> writes
For that sort of level I would talk to the commercial departments of
Xerox, Canon and Kyocera, who will probably point you in the direction
of a reseller who can run through the options with you.

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Timothy Lee http://www.wightproperty.com
tlatwightpropertydotcom

In an overly simplified way, the situation is approximately as follows.

The printer has a design life.... and this may be determined by the
thermal failure rate of electronic components or other things.

The printer has a design number of copies.... and this is likely to be
associated with estimated mechanical wearout rates of gears, rollers and
other mechanical stuff. It could be more involved with some kind of
electronic wear out rates as well.

Therefore, the printer has a recomended number of copies per month
gained by dividing the design number of copies by the design life
expressed in months.

You can take it over from here and answer many of your own questions.

Jim

Ron Cook wrote:


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