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(7 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Get to know the PCU, because you'll be replacing it often,
July 12, 2004 Laura G. Dods (Edwardsville, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ricoh Aficio CL3000 Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
Our company purchased the CL3000 not more than 4 months ago. It worked out of the box, and the color printing is fast. This lasted to about a week. After a week, the printer began making a horrible grinding noise. After letting the Ricoh help desk listen to the noise over the phone, they scheduled a tech to come out and fix it. The tech showed and said that the auger waste doors on the color PCU were jammed, and the color PCU needed to be replaced. He didn't carry the part on him, so it would have to come from Ricoh direct. This took about a week, so no printer for two weeks since the problem occurred. We replaced the color PCU, and continued printing for 3 more months. We began to notice red streaks in the color sections of print. Again we consulted Ricoh's help desk (which is nothing more than a tech scheduling service), and they sent out the same tech again. This time, he claims the black PCU is faulty. He actually broken the flimsy auger door and used a wadded up piece of paper to...Read more
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Can't buy a better color laser printer for the price,
February 10, 2004 Kimber Smith-Fidler "fictionista" (Upper Gulf Coast, TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ricoh Aficio CL3000 Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
It's got speed, good color quality and tones, and a small footprint. While it isn't edge-to-edge, it certainly prints on a large area of paper. It comes network-ready. For just under $850, what else could you ask for?!
I strongly recommend the Ricoh CL 3000 for anyone in a small- to mid-size business that needs color printing on a very regular basis.
---Edited on January 17, 2006. About six months after getting this, we started seeing some really bad banding. And have spent almost the cost of the printer initially ($700) in trying to fix it. Unfortunately, the staying power of this is a joke. So if I could do it all over again, I'd probably give it three stars.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Fast Color Laser Printer,
January 10, 2004 H. Brake "hbrake2" (Little Rock, AR United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ricoh Aficio CL3000 Color Laser Printer (Office Product)
This Printer - is one of the best I have ever seen in performance and quality output. The Color is Bright - clear - and consistant. Get the Duplexer and watch this machine print your manuals and books - double sided - in record time. The main con I would have with this printer is that Ricoh - a very famous Japanese company- doesn't advertise it. If they advertised it - it would be even more expensive. It is an excellent printer and I would highly recommend it for the advanced home user or as a workgroup printer. It has options including hard disk, additional memory and duplexer. Try it - you'll love it!
