Just spoke to a high-level Ricoh source who shall remain annonymous because they can get in trouble for "leaking" advance information that ends up on P4P. He filled in a couple of blanks for me on the new color boxes
a.) the price will be lower than 7000CMF
b.) They are identical except for speed
c.) They will only do envelopes out of the by-pass.
d.) The LCT is not a 5th tray...it is in place of a 3rd & 4th tray.
e.) They do not replace the 1224/1232. There is a national Service Webcast happening sometime in the next few days to announce a firmware upgrade for the 1200 series units that will significantly reduce timing-out issues.
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