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That does not include the waste of space that is Ricoh UK.
We need a full colour laser printer, with low running costs and reasonable image quality, ideally on a lease/full service, for a small office of 7 people running training courses.
We are in central Scotland BTW.
If anyone wants a paperweight, I have one with Ricoh UK sticker on the side... 😉
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Matt_outandabout - try these guys, I can make an introduction if you want (no personal connection).
http://www.capital-solutions.co.uk/
We use these guys and they have been more than helpful over the years! - We have heavy print usage so quite challenging for them.
We've used these guys for years to supply a printer / photocopier for a small office in Stirling - very helpful:
http://www.digitol.co.uk/
Find your local Xerox agent. We've used Xerox kit for over 15 years (in print trade), and service has always been spot-on. Not always the cheapest mind.
Check that service is from Xerox themselves though and not a 3rd party.
Metrik in Dumfries are good - been using these guys on and off for nigh on 10 years now and always found them to be very good.
> [url= http://www.metrik.co.uk/ ]http://www.metrik.co.uk/[/url]
*Disclaimer - we did their website for them a couple of years ago, however that followed on from being a client of theirs for much longer than that.
Clarity Pennine, speak to Bernard.
We are with Ricoh and they are absolutely rubbish, I would never ever recommend them ever ever. We bought a printer from them and they did not reset the copies, so then tried to bill us £12k for the copies of the previous company! Roll on 12 months they tried it again and would not return calls. Somehow we are still with them despite them being very poor on the communication side 👿
We've used Appogee for the last 3 years. They've been alright. They supplied us with a canon - big beast that we put 35k copies out per month.
Biggest thing to watch out for is that your total monthly print runs don't exceed the manufacturers maximum recommended number. They didn't mention this us when we set the lease up and we only found out when the printer kept breaking.
Once identified, no problems tho.
We use Midshire Comunications at work have been spot on so far.
Any particular reason it's leased?
Using a big Kyocera at work which we own, cost about £500 4 years ago. I print price lists on it for mailing out, we also produce booklets for the clients in full colour on it. It's not given us any mechanical problems so far and if it does we'll buy a new one as bits tend to be expensive to fit with a technician in attendance.
Cartridges at £300 a set of 4 every 9 months. It's still on it's first imaging drum. Serving 4 machines on the mixed network.
Do you want 'just' a printer, or would a heavier-duty printer / photocopier / fax etc be more appropriate for your needs? I'm thinking volume here, is it going to be used once or twice a day or getting caned?
If the latter, it's the sort of thing we do (along with "document management solutions" and suchlike), and we've an office in East Kilbride. Yell if you want hooking up, might be overkill for your needs though, dunno.