Kyocera TASKalfa 552ci "Spec Review"

- Kyocera now shipping the new TASKalfa 552ci color laser MFP featuring:
- Base MSRP of $20,168
- 55ppm b/w and 50ppm full color top speeds
- 4 tandem amorphous silicon drum design, with life of only 300,000 pages
- 8.5” tilting color touch screen LCD display
- 58 second warmup time
- 4.6 second first b/w copy out time, 6.1 seconds for color
- 225K/month max duty cycle
- Black toner yield of 25,000 pages based on 5% coverage per page
- Color toners yield 18,000 pages
- 600x600dpi
- Advertised as offering 8 bit color depth (but does not specify if it offers 8 bits per pixel)
- Built-in print controller
- 2GB RAM standard
- Two 160GB hard drives standard (print and copy)
- Hard drive data security kit $580
- Copy data security kit $1155
- 800MHz processor
- PCL, PostScript & XPS print drivers standard
- Peerless technology
- 10/100BaseT & USB ports standard
- No optional 1000BaseT port
- Scan to email/LDAP/SMB/FTP/USB/TWAIN standard
- No EFI Fiery option
- Two document feeder choices:
- DP-750 100 sheet feeder that does NOT scan both sides of original at same time
- top speed of 75opm for $1360
- DP-760 100 sheet feeder that DOES scan both sides at same time
- top speed of 50opm for duplex scan or 100ipm for $1800
- Optional fax board with PC fax for $1155
- Requires $200 memory board
- Up to 400dpi only
- Can add second fax line
- Internet fax option for $300
- Comes standard with two 500 sheet paper drawers supports up to 90lb. index only
- Standard 100 sheet stack bypass supports up to 120lb. index only
- Does not support 10pt. card stock
- Can add two more 500 sheet paper drawers for $1286
- Can add 3,000 sheet letter only paper drawer for $1380
- Auto duplex standard and supports up to 90lb. index only
- A3 and supports up to 11”x17” paper sizes
- Finishing options include:
- 30 sheet corner stapling finisher for $1540
- 50 sheet multi-position stapling finisher for $2617
- Booklet making option is $1500
- Hole punch kit is $680
- Mailbox unit is $1000
- A print only version, the FS-C8500DN has base MSRP of $5973

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