Lomond EvoJet Office review

at last!

Year after year, decade after decade, the printer manufacturers have trotted out the same old same old. Even the exterior case they no longer really bother to disguise as just a rehash of what went before. I've had my Canon ip5200R for about 10 years now, and I fail to see anything different at all in today's offerings. It's great that it has lasted so long, still working 100%. But good that finally there is a cat amongst the pigeons, if only to challenge the ludicrous notion that 5-10p per print is acceptable!

By the way, do you even attempt to actually measure real-world ink consumption? How much is purged at each stop/start? Or do you just advertise the manufacturer's claims on their behalf?

By dalerm on 10 Jul 2012

Reply to darlem

Hi Darlem,
The yields mentioned in the review are estimated when using the the printer as follows:
AVERAGE DAYS PER MONTH USED = 21
PAGES PER DAY = 48
PAGES PER JOB = 4
MOSTLY TEXT = 30%
TEXT & GRAPHICS = 65%
IMAGES or COMPLEX GRAPHICS = 5%
MEDIA TYPE = PLAIN PAPER 80% / MATTE PAPER 20%
PRINT MODE = NORMAL

Hope that helps, but feel free to contact if you need to speak about it further. 0800 980 6717 or +44 115 7149957

By solidinksltd on 10 Jul 2012

Reply to darlem

Hi Darlem,
The yields mentioned in the review are estimated when using the the printer as follows:
AVERAGE DAYS PER MONTH USED = 21
PAGES PER DAY = 48
PAGES PER JOB = 4
MOSTLY TEXT = 30%
TEXT & GRAPHICS = 65%
IMAGES or COMPLEX GRAPHICS = 5%
MEDIA TYPE = PLAIN PAPER 80% / MATTE PAPER 20%
PRINT MODE = NORMAL

Hope that helps, but feel free to contact if you need to speak about it further. 0800 980 6717 or +44 115 7149957

By solidinksltd on 10 Jul 2012

Reply to darlem

Hi Darlem,
The yields mentioned in the review are estimated when using the the printer as follows:
AVERAGE DAYS PER MONTH USED = 21
PAGES PER DAY = 48
PAGES PER JOB = 4
MOSTLY TEXT = 30%
TEXT & GRAPHICS = 65%
IMAGES or COMPLEX GRAPHICS = 5%
MEDIA TYPE = PLAIN PAPER 80% / MATTE PAPER 20%
PRINT MODE = NORMAL

Hope that helps, but feel free to contact if you need to speak about it further. 0800 980 6717 or +44 115 7149957

By solidinksltd on 10 Jul 2012

Reply to darlem

Hi Darlem,
The yields mentioned in the review are estimated when using the the printer as follows:
AVERAGE DAYS PER MONTH USED = 21
PAGES PER DAY = 48
PAGES PER JOB = 4
MOSTLY TEXT = 30%
TEXT & GRAPHICS = 65%
IMAGES or COMPLEX GRAPHICS = 5%
MEDIA TYPE = PLAIN PAPER 80% / MATTE PAPER 20%
PRINT MODE = NORMAL

Hope that helps, but feel free to contact if you need to speak about it further. 0800 980 6717 or +44 115 7149957

By solidinksltd on 10 Jul 2012

Reply to darlem

Hi Darlem,
The yields mentioned in the review are estimated when using the the printer as follows:
AVERAGE DAYS PER MONTH USED = 21
PAGES PER DAY = 48
PAGES PER JOB = 4
MOSTLY TEXT = 30%
TEXT & GRAPHICS = 65%
IMAGES or COMPLEX GRAPHICS = 5%
MEDIA TYPE = PLAIN PAPER 80% / MATTE PAPER 20%
PRINT MODE = NORMAL

Hope that helps, but feel free to contact if you need to speak about it further. 0800 980 6717 or +44 115 7149957

By solidinksltd on 10 Jul 2012

@solidinksltd

Thanks for the reply!
Do I take it that "pages per job=4", "pages per day = 48" implies that there is a pause between the 12 successive daily jobs sufficient to cause the printer to do whatever head cleaning/purge routine it might ordinarily do between jobs, and that your cost include that head-cleaning consumption?

I ask because on my Canon, if I leave it longer than a few moments before sending the next print job, then the printer will purge and park the heads - I'm quite convinced that most of the ink I buy never goes onto paper but ends up in the sponge at the back. The Canon even purges the colour heads between greyscale print jobs - I used up an entire set of colour cartridges doing 100% greyscale print jobs once!

By dalerm on 10 Jul 2012

@darlem

You are welcome and yes. The review could have simply stated yields independently tested by QualityLogic. FYI, QualityLogic yields are: Cyan 10,057, Magenta 5,869, Yellow 5,719 & K 7,544, however, these yields are achieved by continually printing the ISO/IEC24711 test suite of pages.
Instead, the yields quoted in the review (although an approximation and may vary according to individual printing preferences) still uses the ISO/IEC24711 test suite for COVERAGE but also incorporates the pages printed per day, pages per job, power cycles, types of paper used and print quality settings.
In a nutshell – As with most printer technologies, the more you pages you print per job, the lighter the coverage = greater the yield.

By solidinksltd on 11 Jul 2012

@darlem

You are welcome and yes. The review could have simply stated yields independently tested by QualityLogic. FYI, QualityLogic yields are: Cyan 10,057, Magenta 5,869, Yellow 5,719 & K 7,544, however, these yields are achieved by continually printing the ISO/IEC24711 test suite of pages.
Instead, the yields quoted in the review (although an approximation and may vary according to individual printing preferences) still uses the ISO/IEC24711 test suite for COVERAGE but also incorporates the pages printed per day, pages per job, power cycles, types of paper used and print quality settings.
In a nutshell – As with most printer technologies, the more you pages you print per job, the lighter the coverage = greater the yield.

By solidinksltd on 11 Jul 2012

No duplex = Bit of a clanger

Irrespective of the print speeds... The lack of a duplexer is a bit of a show stopper for it being a *serious* business machine, which is a shame...

By juleswilko on 16 Jul 2012

@juleswilko

Duplex is coming, so too is Multi-Function. All we can say is, watch this space :-)

By solidinksltd on 17 Jul 2012

@solidinksltd

"As with most printer technologies,..."

Dangerous words to hide behind when you are talking about a radically new printer technology? It implies "new technology, no actual difference". I'm sure that is not what you meant?

When is the duplex version coming?

By dalerm on 19 Oct 2012