Buy.com deal of day (9/25) Ricoh AP2000 laser printer $299 (list price $1000+)

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Well this one seems really sweet...but I have no use for another
laser printer...


$299 shipped
(list price is $1000+)
Speeds up to 20 pages per minute
Print resolution up to 1200 dpi
Can print on tabloid-sized (11" x 17&quot paper
Convenient paper and envelope feeding options
133 MHz RISC - based controller
Network connectable



Ricoh AP2000 laser printer

 

[bigbigsavings]

VERY nice! Seems awful large though. I can never have anything as big as my HP IIPplus again.

Alex

 

[daid]

Man, the three of us must wait up EVERY night for the DOD!!! hehehe Is this a good deal? I don't know much about Laser Printers.

 

[Stout]

Hehe!!! After the laptops I don't go to bed till the DOD comes out

Great deal for SOHO! @ a great price.

Stout

 

[spec411]

im still waiting for them to put the sony laptops on again!! man that was a deal! This one looks good too, but none have been resold on fleabay so theres no gauging how much this could fetch

i just checked pricewatch and the going price is about $500 for this model, so $200 off w/ free shipping is a great deal for what looks like a heavy duty laser printer

 

[stonerdave]

Awww, I checked out ricoh's homepage...they have a $100 rebate for the AP2100, oh well. Here's the info at ricoh's site.

Good night.

 

[BiggieN]

i have the hp 5p series laserjet. is this better or should i stay with what i got? what's the resale value on my hp 5p? fairly used no heavy printing.

 

[daid]

Where did you see info on a rebate for the 2100? I didn't see any mention of it anywhere on the site.

 

[uranium]

considering it prints 20ppm and 11x17 and it's network connectable, this is one great deal. too bad i already got the 870 which works great too.

 

[morkinva]

Hmmm.. this one is interesting.

Usually you can find the same item without the 'deal of the day' stuff on the website, but at the regular price -- I can't find this one, maybe because this item is discontinued ?

Also, I think the network card will cost more than the printer.. haha

 

[BiggieN]

Connectivity Standard Interface:
Bi-directional IEEE 1284 parallel interface
Optional
RS - 232C Serial Interface (July 1999 release)

just use a parallel cable.

 

[stonerdave]

It's somewhere on ricoh-usa.com. Here's the link...

http://www.ricoh-usa.com/wnew/promotions.htm

 

[Otis8]

nO it says you can use an IEEE Parallel connection...
Ordering mine now

 

[BiggieN]

no matter how much i refresh it still says 300 left. weird. i thought it was a good deal. maybe i'll check back in the morning. anyways is his a good printer or should i just keep my hp 5 series printer?

 

[stonerdave]

I'd keep the HP...this looks like a heavy-duty office/cluster printer to me, unless you had plans to resell it...but who knows?

Man, I wish I'd been up when the dreamcast was DOD! Fooey!

 

[BiggieN]

how much is a hp 5 going for anyways?

 

[daid]

Thanks for the link stonerdave.

BiggieN, check thisout.

 

[BiggieN]

thanks...egay is always a good judge of price.

 

[daid]

In case anyone is interested, here is the link to Buy.com's regular listing of this item.

 

[huesmann]

There's already some yutz on E-gay selling one of these, starting bidding at $300... Hmm, what a convenient start point! Any takers on whether he's a forum reader?

 

[RossMAN]

daid - Thanks for the link, I can't believe Buy.com regularly charges $479 for this BEHEMOTH.

In case anyone is interested here's the software drivers for this big ugly beast.

$299.99 Ricoh AP2000
-$30 off $150 coupon
-3% eBates
-free shipping
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$261.89

 

[dman]

Just FYI's:

The Ricoh Rebate ($100 off select printers) does NOT include the Buy.Com deal of the Day AP2000 model. (The AP2100 is in the approved list).

Additional Specs found here:
Ricoh Specifications
(Features also available but same as the buy.com list: Features)

 

[subpar]

Actually, not a bad deal at all. This printer is discontinued by Ricoh, however; superceded by the AP2100 model.

The toner cartridge cost works out to be $149 for 14,000 pages (estimated). Not bad for a little over a penny a page for toner plus the cost of the paper consumables.

Seems pretty economical for a workgroup...supports PostScript Level 2 emulation even in Win2k.

I'd buy it, but I have an HP2100 that suits me quite nicely, as well as that other Buy.com deal of the Day on the NEC SuperScript 870.

subpar

 

[HigherGround]

damn ,i'm gonna go broke from all these "savings"...i just bough 1 gig of the egghead RAM, if that doesn't go through I'll buy the printer

 

[Unclemo]

Darn... I would have enjoyed this two months ago... I get so tempted with these DODs.... ahhhh...