Yesterday, I discussed manufacturers' recommended maximum monthly volume or duty cycle (see Part 1 of this post) and how this shouldn't be your realized average monthly copy volume.

Buyer's Laboratory, Inc. (BLI) is an independent testing lab that analyzes strengths and weaknesses of printer/copier/MFP hardware and makes recommendations to interested parties. BLI notes each manufacturer's maximum monthly volume claims and then it recommends an "optimum monthly volume" after a thorough lab test. Take a look at the difference between the two figures for six different manufacturers of digital printing devices.

As a courtesy to the five other competitive brands, we are only showing RISO's name, while keeping the others hidden.

The bottom line is that RISO's recommended max volume for its digital duplicators is actually what you can run each and every month without wearing your hardware out.

RISO digital duplicators do not use heat, fuser, or toner, so they can realistically handle their published duty cycles of up to 500k copies per month. Sure, your copy volume may be nowhere near this high, but RISO devices can handle this capacity. Even if you are printing only 20,000 copies per month, you will have the piece of mind of knowing that you will likely never surpass your recommended limit. And your RISO device will last and last and last...