Kyocera Mita Printer - FS 4000DN review

May 16, 2008

Kyocera Mita Printer - FS-4000DN review picturesThe only thing that really pay for laser printers is speed. If you want a fast machine, suitable for sharing across a working group, there is a considerable increase. The Kyocera Mita FS-4000DN Kyocera Mita is valued at 45ppm (pages per minute), and even in the street prices, costs more than £ 700.

The design is fairly conventional, a bucket base with an angled control panel at the front. This includes a backlit 2 lines by 16 characters display and a series of eight buttons, including two to start and stop a print job. It may seem strange to have a start button for what was sold as a laser for workgroups, but this is to manage the impressions of PDF files, which may be a memory unit connected directly to the printer. This is an extra hand and provides security for files you do not want to leave in the output tray.

A whole ream of paper can be loaded into the Kyocera Mita FS-4000DN the main paper tray and there is a fold-down multi-purpose tray, which can take up to 100 sheets of special media. If you need more than that, Kyocera Mita three trays can provide additional input, one face up output tray and a cabinet support to the printer, as all options.

Printer almost always responsible for its rate of printing machines simple documents in draft mode, so that the title figures should be taken with a small Cruet salt. The highest single-sided printing speed we saw in normal mode was just over 14ppm, less than a third of the rated speed. With the built-in duplex spend two sides produced a document to 23 parts per minute, closer to the rated speed of 33.5spm.

Speed is only half the equation, of course, the other half is print quality. This is not as good as we’ve seen before Kyocera Mita printers. Despite the fact that the fine for printing text, which is jet black and precise, the same can not be said of photos, graphics or even companies. In both cases, a series of micro-thin bands are evident throughout the prints, which could cause problems, even for internal use office.

The printing costs are very low because of the permanent drum design common to all laser Kyocera Mita. All you need is to buy toner, which at around £ 70 for a sheet 20000-cartridge offers a cost per page of just 0.8p. It is easy to install, too, so maintenance is very simple.

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