Anyone have experience or opinions on Xerox'x 4110 BW printer and its AE toner.

Looking at a possible purchase. Anyfeedback would be appreciated.

Dale Zahnke

Dale, for what it's worth when I was in the market in the fall of 2006 it came down to the Xerox 4110 and the Ricoh MP9000. It ended up that the Ricoh had more bang for the buck plus the GBC punch option was necessary for a contracted job.

From my experience with the MP series I think you should at least take a look at their product. You'll find the hard drives (Ricoh has 2 - 160 GB drives) are larger, the large capacity paper decks will hold up to 12x18 sheets and feed 80lb cover very good, there are user replaceable parts, it hold 2 toner bottles so you can replace toner on the fly. There are no clutches, everything is driven by stepper motors, lots of user adjustable items including skew/alignment adjustments, fuser temperature and lots more.

Right now I am running between 50,000 and 60,000 duplexed prints a day with 480 coated sheets (printed on my DC8000AP) inserted through the interposer and yesterday I had 2 jams, 1 caused by my own lack of paying attention.

I was as hesitant about Ricoh and their past unreliable stuff, but I'll put my MP9000 up against anything in it's class (it's not a Nuvera 288). If you need more info I'll be happy to share both the good and the bad.

I tried to run a job at a different site then ours and found the 4110 to be really difficult to operate.

The trays were very small for capacity. If memory serves me, there are only a few that can do 12x18.

The EFI DFE can't do setpagedevice postscript page mapping (or atleast I couldn't easily figure out how to do it without rewriting the postscript).

The DFE was fast, able to rip very quickly (not surprising considering its color roots) however, when sending a color document to it, the blacks and color areas where very washed out.

Solid areas where very moddled, not sure if that was the machine and its maintenence or if that is typical of 4110, the operator said to me that was normal for them.

Ultimately, after about 2 hours of messing with it, we couldn't get the job to run on the 4110 due to the lack of the SETPAGEDEVICE commands and the quality of the print (from color files) wasn't matching our Digimaster or the Neuvera.

I didn't get click prices from the customer, but they did claim their costs for the 4110 was much higher then the Neuvera and that Xerox gave them the 4110 because their Neuvera was always having problems. They were running the Neuvera much more then the 4110.