Tally Printer - Genicom 8108N review

May 14, 2008

Tally Printer - Genicom 8108N review wallpaper and picturesYou get a lot of printer for your money with Tally Genicom 8108N, measured by volume of metal and plastic. It is a big beast, sitting in front of the high table and with a substantial footprint, so it’s a surprise to discover the typical street price is only around £ 150.

The paper is loaded into a 150-sheet tray at the bottom of the machine and you can add a new 500-sheet tray underneath, if you need more capacity. Controls at the top are simple, with two lines, 16-character LCD screen that displays status information. Even without a backlight, this is quite easy to see under normal lighting of offices.

It’s a pretty simple machine to configure and get running, too, with a transfer belt mounted vertically and four in the slot toner cartridges at the front, to build each of the color images in color before transferring the paper. The belt is worth 120000 pages to a 5 per cent coverage, so it can be considered a component of a lifetime.

This means equalize operating expenses only to toner cartridges themselves (ignoring electricity). With each cartridge costs about £ 70 for the level of capacity (1500 sheets) or £ 90 for high-capacity (3000 sheets), this gives best operating expenses of 2p to 11p a text and black page 20 percent of a color. The black cost is reasonable, although more than 10p for a color page is at the top.

The 8108N takes longer to print in color than black pages, but still manages a real world in black and 14ppm about 6ppm for color, none of which is out of order for a machine in this price range.

The print quality is generally good, with high quality, free of spatter print black and good solid colors. Although they are solid colors also come across darker what it should, so you may need to adjust settings lightness to get the color printed near what you see on screen. There are three different modes of color in the printer driver, the label of documents, photographs and graphics. The default setting is the document, but it’s worth the time change between these different types of printing papers, to get a better color reproduction.

USB 2 is the standard connection for local color and laser printers monkey, but here there is an Ethernet connection, so you can configure the printer as a shared network device. Tally Genicom provides a network monitoring utility, as well as the printer driver standard, which offers facilities such as multiple pages per sheet - but only up to four - and water.

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