The T6212 is Tally's midrange, ultra quiet, Enterprise series line impact matrix printer. Offering a printing speed of 1, 200 lines per minute with an impressive 345, 000 pages per... more
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The T6212 is Tally's midrange, ultra quiet, Enterprise series line impact matrix printer. Offering a printing speed of 1, 200 lines per minute with an impressive 345, 000 pages per month workload make this the ideal printer for organizations with a requirement for a high quality line printer. As with all other products in the T6000 range, advanced features like Tally's Page Segmentation, and Read Right algorithm give the T6212 clear advantage over competitive products in both throughput and print quality.
Advantages: Attractive, quiet, very fast Disadvantages: Expensive, unreliable, ridiculous pricing structure for consumables that fail
...charges you a proportion of that for the new drum.
Now, so far this all sounds fair. If say, the drum failed and it was half way through its expected life then perhaps I should be expected to pay maybe half of the cost of the new drum. However, it doesn't work like this. Firstly Tally make low estimates of the life of these parts and then, when they discover that the drum has served 50% of its life, they charge you 80% of the cost of the new drum. Where, I ask, is the justice in this policy?
This is true of a range of parts, including toner cartridges which can also fail with a spectacular noise and then cost you to replace ink you haven't even used.
In short, you should purchase this printer only of all of the below is true for you:
1: You work for an organisation that requires a workgroup printer.
2: You have at least £500 spare to...
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Advantages: Purchase price, total cost of ownership, quality Disadvantages: Paper jams
...only a few colour laser printers at a similar price and most are significantly more expensive. I have seen it available on line recently for as little as £535.00 but most suppliers offer it at around the £600.00 mark at the moment.
One of the most significant costs for small to medium enterprises is the total cost of ownership. This is a speculative figure arrived at that takes into account the purchase price, consumables, expected life span and anticipated repair and maintenance costs. Our Tally was purchased primarily because the independent reports of the budget colour laser market suggested this printer had quite considerably lower total cost of ownership than other similar printers. The costs per page are listed as:
1.1p per page for a black and white office memo.
4.7p per page for a colour office memo.
7.3p per page for colour...
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Advantages: A good all round PC and a great little media package to boot Disadvantages: The newer versions have a MUCH higher spec for cheaper! My PC no problems with it
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