A4s Through Distribution

GIntelMaven

A few months back when discussing the MP 201, someone mentioned that with the emergence of MPS, dealers are getting more used to ordering A4 printer-based MFPs through distribution.

Are a lot of dealers doing this to fill-in A4 holes rather than waiting for copier vendors to finally give them A4 solutions through their copier brands?

Any thoughts on this in terms of why and why not dealers are going this rout?

Seems to me a lot of the copier brand A4s have not gotten it right and dont really provide the hardware-based TCO advantage that A4 MFPs are supposed to...

Thanks.

4/18/115:10 PM

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I'm not sure I can give you the answer you're looking for. Seems to me more dealers wanted to see higher speed A4 MFP's in monochrome (not color). I wanted and A4 mono in the 35 - 50ppm, because I know I could displace many A3 monochrome devices in the field along with A4 printers.

But, I don't have the hardware to accomplish this. Do the OEM's like Canon, Ricoh, KonicMinolta, Sharp, Kyocera and Toshiba make more profit per page based on A4 printers than A4 MFP's? I can't say for sure, however we need to think twice why some manufacturers won't bring the A3 cost per page model to the A4 MFP's.

As Hugh would say, that's my two cents.

One other note on this and I'll be writing on blog in reference to this. I sell Ricoh, thus my expertise is with that product. If the name of the game is to capture clicks, why do we (Ricoh) not have A3 the cpp model in an a4 printer. Think of this, take the MP201, ditch the copy feature, scan and fax functionality, keep the 21 ppm engine along with the same toner cost. You've then got and MSPR of consumables cost (no fuser) of .0066 give or take a little. Something like this would allow me to displace most of the A4 printers that I run across on ROI and TCO.

I'm stunned that we don't have anything like this...

4/18/1110:26 PM

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