Hey everyone,
Our company is making the step from plotters (HP 1050c Plus) to large format printers. We have researched and demo'd KIP, Oce and Xerox printers. So far our pick seems to be the KIPs. Our main office will have the 6000 and the branch offices (6) will have the
3000's. We will be keeping some of the HP 1050's for color plotting.
We typically run between 50-150 sheets per set, 50 sets per job and 50 jobs per year at our main office (KIP 6000). Do the math and this amounts to 250,000 (83,000 L.F.)sheets per year. For the branch offices (KIP 3000), 108,000 sheets (36,000 L.F.) sheets is the norm. (BTW, this is just a guess).
Now to the question; how is the reliability of the KIPs in terms of maintenance? Also, do they use more or less toner than other machines?
I've read that the software is somewhat glitchy, but I guess we'll just deal with that. Also, at the demo, there was an issue with the grayscale linework from PDF's (It was dotted rather than shaded). Has anyone else had this issue?