Black-and-white Copiers The Plain Truth

Monthly Usage Rates

Bartels finds that he looks first at monthly usage rates since speed is worth nothing if the machine burns out from the heady pace.

"The monthly specs on the Canon IR8500, for example, are 300,000 to 400,000," he says, whereas monthly impressions actually run about 275,000. "I always look for a monthly usage rate slightly higher that what we need."