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While printer technology has advanced significantly over the past 10 plus years, none have seen the innovative technology of the Kyocera FS-3800D Printer. FS-3800D was a printer of very high quality and was engineered to be “eco-friendly.” Despite being retired, this printer is enough of a cost effective workhorse to still be a contender in the business printing market. The Kyocera FS-3800D Cartridge produces remarkable clarity on every printed page.

A black and white laser printer, the FS-3800D is a networkable printer that uses resources efficiently. Its operational costs are low, as well as its impact on the environment. The drum’s cycle is 300,000 prints. Its 16 MB of RAM is facilitated by the Power PC 740 processor (200 MHz). Imaging is enhanced in the resolution that starts at 1,200 dpi x 1,200 dpi and ends with 2,400 dpi x 600 dpi. Owners have described the images printed by the FS-3800D as having lush coloring, brusque edges, and keenly meticulous halftones.

The Kyocera Printer Toner printed 25 ppm (pages per minute) and was considered to be very fast. It did this by entirely storing the selected file in the memory before printing, thus lessening the need to access the file over the network again during the print. The printer has a very good Energy Star rating because of its power saving technology (it shuts itself off when not in use). Windows 2000, XP, and Vista users can use this printer, as well as those using Mac, UNIX, and Sun platforms. The FS-3800D was “the” printer to meet the needs of business printing (i.e., invoices, forms, reports, bar codes, and direct mail).

An international Japanese company, Kyocera is the producer of many products besides the FS-3800D. Its focus is modern ceramics and its uses, such as components for telecommunications and electronics, as well as semi-conductors. The company’s first incarnation was the Kyoto Ceramic Company, changing its name in 1982 to Kyocera. The branch called Kyocera Mita deals with the company’s imaging technology (i.e., printers).

Currently, Kyocera Mita offers a line of printers that have grown from the technology used in the FS-3800D. The FS-1100 has a speed of 30 ppm and a duty cycle of 20,000 per month. The FS-1300D also prints at 30 ppm, but has a duty cycle of 25,000 per month. Thirty-two ppm can be had with the FS-1350DN (30,000 per month duty cycle).

The next step up is the FS-1350DN and the FS-2020D. These print at the speed of 32 ppm and 37 ppm with drum duty cycles of 30,000 and 150,000. The page per minute rates of 40, 42, 47, and 51 can be found in the FS-9130DN, FS-3920DN, FS-4020DN, and the FS-9530DN, respectively. The duty cycles range between 200,000 to 300,000 per month.

Kyocera Mita’s printers use a technology called Ecosys. The objective in Ecosys is to have very little impact on the environment by extending the life of the printer’s consumable and lowering the overall cost per print. This is achieved by designing a drum that is separate from the toner cartridge. In a standard printer, these two are combined and when the toner is depleted, the drum (which has a much longer life) gets replaced needlessly. In a Kyocera printer, the total cost of ownership is less because of this Ecosys technology.

These savings extend to replacing the Kyocera FS-3800D Ink And Toner. Using quality Kyocera Bulk Toner ensures gorgeous prints, page after page. Printer Toner is inexpensive and received quickly by the use of online merchants. Overall better for the environment, choosing the Kyocera FS-3800D is a great decision!

- Ben Pate