Lexmark Printers

We just picked up Kyocera for just their printers and have already salvaged a couple of pretty good customers that were going south with the Ricoh brand. I'm just talking B&W, just the FS 4200DN really which appears to do anything required of it. And with their three year warranty and 500K maintenance kit, the cpc is actually as low or lower than what an MFP is.

Old Glory, We had Kyocera for a while and then dropped them. I did like the printers and you are correct. You can run them for around .01 and make a killing. We are going to start going after the car dealers as a vertical here and will have to have the Lexmark for Reynolds and Reynolds software and then ADP rebrands, or at one point was rebranding Kyocera's for another auto group here. 

 

Those software systems have code written in them or something along those lines that will not work with any printer. Its a nice little racket they have with Lexmark and the Auto Dealers.

I love the Lexmark printer lineup, at least under their BSD program.  Reasonable hardware prices, competitive CPPs, especially on their 55-70ppm series, & they seem to require very little service.  We picked them up years ago, & I've rarely sold Ricoh printers then.  I would also consider picking up their desktop A4 MFP series if you aren't already.  The MFP models share the same toner as the SFP models which makes supplies management very easy.  Another advantage is that even the SFP models have Java-enabled touch screens meaning you can embed rules-based print solutions in the control panel & can easily access forms stored on the HDD.

Lexmark is a very competent product in the market, We built an embedded app for them about a year ago which has had some real traction with office equipment dealers have have Lexmark as a product line. Their support and documentation was some of the best we have come across. 

Thank you all for your feedback. We are going to make a move with them on the printers and multifunction products and see where it goes.

I think you'll be happy with your decision.  Wait til you get your hands on their XM7100 series. 55-70ppm A4 out the door for less than $8k with solid margin & a CPP around a penny.  Top it off with a 150 sheet SPDF that runs at 70ppm, & you've got the baddest A4 system on the planet with compatibility with loads of solutions to boot.

I saw that machine. I can't wait to see that!

A lot of people don't know that it has a staple & hole punch finisher option, & it isn't even in my price book, but it does exist. Only A4 I've ever seen with hole punch.  Oh, and don't forget about the XM3150, the only desktop MFP with a staple finisher as an option.  Can you tell I love the monochrome  lineup?  The only problem with the line is there's only 1 color printer, 1 desktop color MFP & one A4 color MFP.  All good machines, but the CPP tends to be high.  Color needs a refresh, so hopefully they'll address it next gen like they did the CPP on the monochrome side.