Interesting Post from a Kyocera tech Message Board

Here's another

Has anyone checked to see what kind of yields you are really getting on the Voyager series?
I had a customer go through 4 black toners in one week - they thought something might be wrong.
I audited the machine and found they were only getting about 6500 prints per cartridge (should be 15K). We pulled toner coverage info and found Mono was at 4% and black in color mode was at 3.6%
According to my calculations - the Voyager series would have to have and 840g black cartridge (instead of 480g - could this be another typo - say like the 5016's 200K - oops, I mean 20K maintenance cycle?) to have a similar density to the Falcon series.
The Falcon density would not be suitable for color printing, so it is safe to say it would need to use even more toner than that - probably more like 960g to be able to provide 15K per cartridge (accounting for 5% vs 6% stated).

It would be physically impossible to fit that much toner in the space provided in the machine, but more importantly this indicates we are all being seriously overcharged by Kyocera for this toner. Perhaps they should repackage it with two cartridges per box for the same price - that would at least be a little more fair.

I have been afraid to look at color yields.

As far as the toner yields is concerned we have no idea. When a customer wants color, most of us will lead with Ricoh only. We have become a little gun shy with the Kyocera color line. I have sold there color printers an there yields our OK.