I need everyones opinion on this!

When I was at the Print on Demand Show in Boston, I saw the Sharp box and at first glance it looked like a Ricoh! Now, today I got to see it again. Is everything the same except for the engine, even the engine seems similiar, it it wasn't for Ricoh having the toner on the lower left. I'd swear this was a Ricoh box.

Art

I can see the resemblance on the top of the machine, but the paper drawers, engine and output all look dissimilar to me.

I used to sell sharp and they said the mainframe was Sharp, cleansheet design. the accessories were all Ricoh.

interesting, way to make a copy!

Hi Art

Last November I was testing the MX1100 in a Sharp showroom (France) and the guy told me the mechanical parts were all RICOH but processing board + engine were SHARP.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Charles

Just goes to show you the quality of Ricoh. Sharp will never be as player in this arena. Sure looks like a Ricoh to me.

I used to work for a dealership that sold Sharp (when this came out). It is a very nice box, the ultrasonic feeding in awesome, and the pricing for parts and consumables is aggressive.

The mistake that Sharp made was to not do a beta program with commercial printers and other high volume users.

The irony of Larry's statement is that I would not consider Ricoh a player here. They are chasing Xerox, Canon etc in Seg. 6 and 7, and are seriously held back by their lack of a production color unit.