Kyocera (aka Kyota Ceramic Company) launched two new A3 b/w laser MFPs, called the TASKalfa 255 and TASKalfa 305 featuring:
o Are part of “SMARTtech” series or “Simple Management and Replacement Technology”
 Claims that a PM can be performed in under 10 minutes due to cartridge based, tool-free design
 PM cycle is 300,000
o advertised as offering benefits of A3 paper size, at the price of competitive A4 units
o Base MSRPs of $4679 and $5879
o Top speeds of 25ppm and 30ppm respectively
o Max duty cycles of 40K/month and 50K/month
o Very small color LCD touchscreen
o Amorphous silicon (ASi ceramic) drum with expected life of 300,000 pages
o Toner yield of 15,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page
o Waste toner receptacle with yield of 7,500 pages (unit apparently does NOT recycle toner)
o 20 second warmup time, 7.8 second first copy out time
o 600x600dpi actual print resolution (advertised as offering 1800dpi with interpolation)
o Auto duplex standard
o Maximum paper supply of 1,600 sheets
 Comes standard with 550 sheet drawer and 100 sheet bypass
 Drawers hold up to 64gsm
 Bypass can hold up to 140lb. index
o 50 sheet document feeder standard (top scan speed of 40opm)
o Shipped with no Styrofoam packing in the box
o Shipped on pallet entirely made of cardboard instead of wood
o Optional 400dpi fax board
o Built-in print controller
 667MHz IBM PowerPC processor
 USB port on control panel
 10/100/1000BaseT ports
 PCL, XPS and PostScript print drivers
 512MB RAM standard (can upgrade to 1536MB)
 No hard drive available
 IPv6 support
 Integration with MS Windows Active Directory standard
 Optional HID card reader
 Color scanning (output is only b/w)
 Scan to email with LDAP/SMB/SMTP/FTP/TWAIN
-=Good Selling=-
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Monday, January 24, 2011
Kyocera TASKalfa 255 & TASKalfa 305 "Spec Review"
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