You might contact MSU Printing Services to see about getting them off the dime. I chatted with a couple of the sales/marketing folks when they demoed the unit at the Computer Fair and they seemed pretty sharp. Surely someone in the local office can get you the test print you need.
/rich
On 2/19/07, John Gorentz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Are any of you folks familiar with Konica-Minolta Color Bizhubs (
http://copierprogram.msu.edu/). We already have one of the black-and-white units, which we like, and are thinking of getting another, as well as a couple of the color Bizhubs, one of which could replace a heavily used Color Laserjet that is long in the tooth and needs expensive repairs.
I've read good things in reviews about the color quality of Minolta printers, and have seen the sample pages that the sales rep showed us. Those samples weren't enough for me to say one way or another how they'd compare with Color Laserjet output, but I am nervous about it. I've asked the sales rep to print off the 1st 11 pages of the test document at
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/a3gencolorhigh.pdf, but so far have gotten nothing but delays and evasions. It is entirely possible that the printers are fine but the sales rep is working for Dilbert's boss. People are pressing me to make a decision quickly, given that leases on our existing copiers are up at the end of this month, and I don't have a good plan B at the moment. I'm curious as to whether any of you folks use them or have evaluated them.
John Gorentz
W.K. Kellogg Biological Station
