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Ricoh Aficio CL3500N Color Laser Printer (White) | List Price: $999.00
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Brand: Ricoh
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Network-ready, user-friendly, and compact printer puts a professional touch on office documents with high resolution and sharp, clear graphics and text
- Warms up in only 30 seconds or less; offers first page out speeds of 13.5 seconds for black and white and 14.5 for color
- 128 MB of memory (512 maximum memory available) ensures that the CL3500N handles even the most complex jobs with ease
- Dimensions: 16.5 x 15.7 x 21.1 inches (WxHxD); weighs 72.6 pounds
- Laser printer delivers 22 pages per minute (ppm) in both black and white and color
Ricoh CL3500N Printer Review [Posted on 2007-08-27]
I have purchased many low end printers including the Samsungs. This printer has not had one bad issue, uses very litte toner and prints very high quality in B/W and Color. I have the same toner for 14 months and print daily. Great buy for the money.
Great workhorse color laserprinter [Posted on 2008-03-17]
I bought the Ricoh Aficio CL3500 about 6 months ago. It's been dead reliable, with no paper jams. I'm running the printer mostly from Macintoshes (MacOS X 10.4) and have found the drivers to be fine, with good control (you can put the printer into B&W or Color mode, with 15 printer-specific controllable features, far more than I need).
The only complaint I thought I had was resolved -- when I bought the printer I noted several reviews said the text quality was poor. My first print job showed pretty lousy print clarity, and I was a bit disappointed that this was the case. However, when I turned on Colorsync for the print job (you can use either the supplied Ricoh Colorsync profile in the source machine or turn on color correction "in Printer"; both work) the print quality improved drastically, and is now as good as any B&W LaserJet I've used.
Overall, a fantastic deal for a color printer that beats the pants off of inkjet printing costs.
Great Machine But Watch Out if Parts Break [Posted on 2008-04-29]
Had the printer a month. Started getting a white sheet down the side. The photoconductor unit is causing it but on EVERY site, EVERY sheet, it claims that the photoconductor unit is good for 15,0000 impressions, of which we got 3,000. When you bring this up to Ricoh, you know the whole routine... "Oh, that 15,000 impressions is based on old surveys using only 5% of the whole page covered in ink." Ricoh must think people print out entire sheets of black.
Anyway. We bought the machine in February. We stopped using it in March because of the white streak. It's now April and Ricoh still has no idea when they can ship me out a photoconductor unit. They feel no responsibility because the unit is a "consumable" part and we can go out and get one if we really need it. So says Will, Brad, Larry and whoever else works at their service department.
So this is what I'm deducing after using Ricoh, Getstaettners and Laniers. You are much better off getting one of their subsidiary printers (like getstaettners or Laniers) because it's a third party who will be servicing your units, not Ricoh itself.
Absolutely satisfied [Posted on 2008-05-21]
I work in a small office (~10 people) and we don't have a lot of money to spare. We have two printers, one is a leased $20,000 copy-machine from HP, and until I got this Ricoh, the other printer was a "good" HP (~$900).
The "good" HP went dead one day without reason, so I went online to find a replacement. I settled upon this Ricoh and i've been happy ever since. On the old printer, we spent some $3000/yr on toner and maintenance. On this Ricoh, we spend thousands less each year, and have far better reliability and output quality. When we print high-quality brochures and programs, our $20,000 copy machine chokes or spits out some low-detail junk. The Ricoh gives me great quality all of the time. When the expensive machine is out of service for any number of issues (it is an HP, after all), the Ricoh is the printer everyone in the office can depend on. It has never broken down, and always gives us enough warning for when it needs routine maintenance.
I HIGHLY recommend this machine to any small business which just needs a great quality printer for a low price. It networks easily, and is highly configurable. Prints everything from envelopes to letters to glossy cardstock without a hickup. Photo paper prints look like they came from CVS.
cheap printer=expensive consumables! [Posted on 2008-11-12]
Welcome to the DISPOSABLE COLOR LASER PRINTER! Had this printer for over a year now, 22,000 prints so far. When it does print well the prints are nice, but once something needs replacing you may as well throw it out and buy a new printer.
Doesn't print well on cardstock because thick paper has to feed through the Bypass tray and as it feeds the paper it "stops" for a second leaving this obvious over-inked smudge all the way down the paper.
I have seen the price of the toner fall over the year, but it sure eats a lot. I replaced the color PCU and black PCU units a few months ago, and am now having printing problems, that's why I am on here to find a replacement printer. Don't replace any parts to this printer, just go buy a new one. Don't even call a tech on it, they are just going to encourage you to replace the consumables...Black PCU $178; Color PCU $225; Fuser $319; toner $125 each color, $55 for black; cost of a new printer, $300. That's priceless!
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