The Aficio SP C420DN redefines office colour performance by delivering 30 full colour or black and white pages per minute, even in duplex. With a short warm-up time of less than 30... more
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The Aficio SP C420DN redefines office colour performance by delivering 30 full colour or black and white pages per minute, even in duplex. With a short warm-up time of less than 30 seconds and a quick, 15-second first print speed it delivers an efficient workflow every time.
Advantages: 4 in one drive Disadvantages: price, speed
...I bought my ricoh on advice from a friend and have from it good advice.
The recorder is one of the new range of so called 4 in one drives, a cd player writer re-writer and dvd player.
The ricoh is not the fastest recorder currently on the market but fast enough for my needs with writing at 6 speed and re-writing at 4 speed.
The ricoh can overburn cd's a practice i find very useful in getting that extra few megabytes.
It comes packaged with nero (version 4 in my case) which is a good authoring package and met my needs.
I am very satisfied with this cd-writer/dvd player...
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...Reliable Performer:
The Ricoh Mp7125a with just link (Ricoh’s name for burn proof) this is a good reliable performer, a well-built unit supplied with Nero 5 writing software.
After 6 months of daily use I have yet to have a buffer underun, for a price of just under £100 this machine is well worth considering. I actually paid about £30 more than this when I bought mine.
As with other Ricoh CD-RW drives, maintains a maximum read speed of 32x for CD-R and CD-RW media, as well as for CD-ROM.
Because CD-RW media has a lower reflectivity than CD-ROM or CD-R media, amplification circuits are more susceptible to noise. This fact causes difficulties with high-speed CD-RW reading, and currently most CD-ROM drives, even 40x drives, can only read CD-RW media at about 20x at best.
However, Ricoh have succeeded in minimizing circuit noise...
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Advantages: High read speed. Fast write for CD recordable and rewritable. Disadvantages: None found so far
...Artec, Not a name i was familiar with until my ricoh cd writer decided to give up the ghost and wouldnt read or write.
Although not very expensive (cost about £30 on ebay) has been very reliable and takes minutes to write a full compact disk.
Comparing it to my old drive there are the following differences:
Ricoh MP7080A:
8 x Write Speed
4 x CD rewritable Speed
32 x Read Speed
4MB Data buffer
IDE interface
Artce 52x32x52:
52 x Write Speed
32 x CD rewritable speed
52x Read Speed
2mb Data buffer (with burnproof / justlink - avoids making coasters of CDs)
IDE interface
The one main advantage of this drive is the buffer under run protection - my old ricoh drive would have to be left to write a cd with nothing else running.
The artec can have lots going on whilst writing a CD - can browse the internet and play games at the same time...
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Picked this up nearly 3 months ago now as my third compact digital after having a kodak for my first then a canon IXUS 500 after that.
I also shoot with a Canon EOS 300d so was looking for great image quality, and a general upgrade from my IXUS.
I went more
This is a very good camera for taking pictures with easily and of good quality. It is much better than a lot of small sigital cameras, and if you want to take landscapes then the wide angle lens is very useful. The lens is of very good quality, and I... more
The first thing many readers will think when looking at this review is "oh my god" how ugly is that camera?", and possibly as a secondary thought, "who the hell are Ricoh, didn't he once manage Arsenal?". The answers to these questions are so obviously... more
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