Kyocera Mita FS-1020D

Kyocera Mita FS-1020D reviewed in The Technofile by MC Rebbe The Rapping RabbiMono laser printers may not be the most exciting of things but they are nevertheless pretty essential. Obviously they have their everyday uses…printing out threatening legal letters to…everyone (hey, I’m Jewish)…printing out shopping lists…3 salt beef sandwiches, half a pound of smoked salmon, some pickled cucumbers (like I said, I’m Jewish), but more importantly they have their creative uses…printing layouts, scripts, journalistic features, proofs and TV proposals.

I’m forever writing TV proposals…primarily for my own amusement…after all, it’s not as if The BBC are gonna commission a Jew to make a Jewish TV show…so I just print them out and send them off as part of my hobby of collecting rejection letters…

But it’s not just about printing the end product, as for many, being able to print out drafts part way through and look at them the way nature intended…on paper…is a part of the creative process itself. That’s why a decent laser printer that can produce good quality copy, fast enough not to disrupt this creative process, is an essential…and The Kyocera Mita FS-1020D delivers the goods!

Powered by a 266MHz PowerPC processor, it’s a 20 page per minute laser printer with 16meg of ram, a compact media slot (for storing fonts, logos, etc), bi directional parallel and USB 2.0 connectivity (with various network options) and a fast first page out time of 10 seconds (which, unlike the figures quoted by some manufacturers is pretty much the case). Unusually for a printer of this price (just over £200 in The UK) it offers automatic full duplex printing, which means that it can print on both sides of the paper automatically, thereby halving your paper costs…but the savings don’t end there, as Kyocera’s long life ‘Ecosys’ technology, which dispenses with the need for regular replacement of expensive print cartridges, means the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the lowest cost per page in its class.

Design is basic. It’s pretty much a box with a few lights. At the front, near the top, there’s a pull out 50 sheet multipurpose tray for envelopes, etc. At the bottom sits a 250 sheet paper drawer, which can take anything up to legal size, beneath which an optional extra 250 sheet paper drawer can be added, making paper changes/refills a breeze.

My one major complaint about this printer is that the rear of the main paper drawer is open rather than enclosed, making it not just a paper collecting drawer, but also a dust collecting draw and since my minions have better things to do than to dust out my drawers, I’m deducting half a bagel!

That aside there’s no other complaints and very little else to say. It does the job… consistently, reliably, speedily and economically producing a high standard of print…what more do you want…blood?

Kyocera Mita FS-1020D awarded four and a half bagels in The Technofile by MC Rebbe The Rapping Rabbi

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