walking through a doorway by IT and through a short hall leaves me here... looking into the spacious demo room... complete with cube divders for some reason.
this is the Canon ImageRunner c3220. with duplexing autodocument feeder [daf k1], shown also with ledger sized saddle stitching unit [finisher N2]... this is the machine thats supposed to make me my millions. it runs full color at 32 pages per minute... and ball park as pictured, could sell for about $35,000 in US currency. god bless free market society!
to the left is the Canon CLC 1140. thats Color Laser Copier for you whom dont care! it runs at the impressive speed of 11 color pages per minute... well it was impressive 8 years ago. or more. i hate this thing. it actually costs more to print on both sides. its slow. stuff looks like shit on it. and its still expensive. i hate it. but its sitting there, thinking im going to sell it.
and thats really it. imagine a room with about 15 more copiers in it. thats the demo room. of the equipment in there, i cant even sell half of it due to brand and territory restrictions. only canon. sigh. the only other brand i can sell is...
Riso! while the unconcsious eye might call these copier, youd have to be rediculously burnt out on meth, to realize they arent! yay for complications! these machines actually are alot more in common with silk screening tshirt places than they have in common with a copier. copiers use electrostatically charged colored dust [toner] and attract it to an oppositely charged rotating area [a drum], that the paper picks up then the dust is melted on the page [in the fuser] to create a copy. riso products, make a negative screen of the image you want [on sheet, from a roll, of paper that feels like wax paper], perferates the areas for coloration, then forces liquid ink through the holes onto a page... something like blowing your nose on a kleenax with a hole in it, leaves the snot on your hands. this leaves us with a one color screened print of the original. its cheap. its fast [150 pages per minute fast]. .... but its limited on colors [each color needs a separate screen, then you have to make sure the areas register together correctly], and you cant make this go fast if you are doing a book of 3 pages. with the riso, the master is permanently trashed when you scan the next item. on a copier, it would just instantly apply static cling to a different spot. figure the price of a master is about 30 cents or something. it makes a very expensive, and poor quality copier. but a cheap and effective duplicator for simple projects. so. riso. yeah. thats them. i can sell them too.
