- Competing against the Toshiba eSTUDIO 453, a 45ppm b/w unit? Remember these pointers:
- Unit comes standard with only 256MB RAM
- Even with spending more on options, unit can only have a maximum of 512MB of RAM
- Hard drive offered only has 40GB of storage space
- The document feeder is an option, and does not come standard
- Customers must pay extra for hard drive overwrite data security and data scrambling
- Optional fax board has no RAM, and has a maximum resolution of only 400dpi
- The optional finishers can not handle more than 2,250 sheets of output total
- Does not offer features like image insert, image overlay, image repeat and OHP interleaving
- Offer maximum paper supply of only 3,700 sheets
- Top scan speed is only 50opm
- Drum and developer yield is only 150,000 copies
- The paper drawers do not having sliding guides, as they must be removed and replaced.
- The paper drawers do not have paper size sensors, so requires programming by end user
- The LCD control panel is monochrome, and not full color
- there is no scan preview on the control panel
- no compression for scanned jobs
- the print controller, can not RIP and print at the same time
- toner cartridge yield is only 21,000 pages based on 5% coverage
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