Kyocera has for some time now been known for their low running costs and improved durability to lengthen the life of their drums and developers. This also does wonders for the environment as there is less waste. Toners need replacing every 20,000 pages but that's all you will need to replace before your first maintenance kit at 300,000 pages.
Print quality was reasonably good for simple documents but when it came to printing more complex documents the detail just wasn't there.
Printing speeds were a little all over the place. For example, we were able to successfully print black and white documents at 26ppm but when it came to printing in colour it could only manage 20ppm -- 6ppm shy of its rated print speed.
Kyocera did confirm that at five percent colour coverage the printer will print at 26ppm. If the coverage is more than 10 percent for example the printer will tend to slow down to top up toner. This is also to ensure that the print quality is maintained. So this may be the cause as the targets we used did contain more than 10 percent colour coverage. We unfortunately didn't have much time to get to the bottom of this but hopefully we can give you an update in one of the upcoming issues.
| Product | Kyocera FS-C8026N |
| Price | AU$9349 |
| Vendor | Kyocera |
| Phone | 02 9888 9999 |
| Web | www.kyocera.com.au |
| Interoperability |
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| Wide range of operating systems, hardware platforms, and networking protocols supported. | |
| Futureproofing |
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| Good options available to support growing requirements. | |
| ROI |
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| Excellent running costs but doesn't live up to its rated print speed in colour. | |
| Service |
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| 2 years or 600,000 pages. | |
| Rating |
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