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Manufacturer:
Mita Copystar America, Inc. Fairfield, NJ; Made in Hong Kong
Suggested retail price: $10,100 (base unit); $14,790 as tested with two-drawer paper deck ($1,245) and 20-bin stapler sorter ($3,445).
Type: Desktop, stationary flatbed exposing unit, bond sheet paper, dry toner, dual-- component developing, heat and pressure fusing.
Manufacturer's recommended monthly copying volume: Up to 55,000 copies.
BLI's recommended monthly copying volume for optimum performance: 6,000 to 40,000 impressions.
Test period duration: 165,000 impressions in three months.
GENERAL APPRAISAL
The Mita DC-4090, a 40-cpm copier, gave a remarkable reliability performance during its 165,000-impression BLI evaluation, with only one PM visit required and no misfeeds recorded. Relative to other Segment 3 models, the DC-4090's strengths, described more fully below, include several useful optional accessories and quick first-copy times.
In addition, the DC-4090 earned the unit BLI's highest rating in every category. In fact, testing revealed that the density of the solids produced by this unit is among the very best for copiers tested to date. In addition, the DC-4090's methods for adding toner and paper are intuitive. Moreover, when compared to other units in this speed range (35 to 45 cpm) tested to date by BLI, the DC-4090 offers efficiency rates that are competitive in all copying modes. The unit also offers quick first-- copy times of 4.4 and 4.2 seconds from the RADF and platen, respectively.
Among its other strengths, there are several standard or optional features of the Mita DC-4090 not commonly available on other Segment 3 units: (1) The optional auto stacker that attaches to one of the optional 20-bin stapler sorters (AS-S5120) enables the unit to automatically offload stapled sets, thus clearing the stapler sorter's bins for the next job; (2) An optional online hole-punching accessory that can also be attached to the same optional 20-bin...