Xerox Colorqube 9301 Copier

If you do a ton of color copies, the Xerox Colorqube series may be a great fit for you.  If you do 3,000 color copies per month or so, probably not the best fit for you.  The Xerox Colorqube 9301 is for those users who are constantly printing or copying in color.  The appeal to the Colorqube copies is the cheap per print costs for color.  For example, there are a lot of “business copies” of color that are under $.03 per print.  Compare this to the $.065 or $.08 from other color copiers in Denver, this adds up fast.  Some will object to the high list cost (currently over $20,000) and will think they can never make this work.  Here is the math though…

Say your current color copier you do 8,500 color copies a month and you are paying an industry average of $.08 per color copy.  If these are everyday business color, the Xerox will be about $.025 per color print, making a $.055 cost differential per color copy.

$.055 X 8,500 = 467.50 differential in color print costs.  Now if you look at a five year lease and see that your lease rate factor is .021, you can divide the $467.50 by .021 and see that you could finance a copier that costs $22,261.90 — A colorqube can be bought cheaper than this.  So it appears the “breakeven point” could be closer to 7,500.  Now, if you have to buy another copier anyway, that copier may cost $11,000 anyway so you’d only need to save $9,000 over 5 years on color prints which works out to about 2725 color prints a month.  Yes, the Colorqube is expensive up front, we do not deny this. The value proposition of the Colorqube copier from Xerox is the long term Total Cost of Ownership.

Give us a call if you would like for us to run the numbers for you and see if a Xerox Colorqube copier makes sense for you!  Currently there are 6 large Colorqube models, the Colorqube 9201, 9202, 9203 and the Colorqube 9301, 9302 and 9303 as well as the two smaller Xerox Colorcube units the Colorqube 8570 and the Colorqube 8870.

Xerox ColorQube 9201, 9202 & 9203

You may have heard about the Xerox ColorQube 9201, the Xerox ColorQube 9202 and Xerox ColorQube 9203, this copier in Denver is a beast.  First of all, most Denver customers are not aware this color copier is over $20,000 for the box.  The ColorQube 9203 claims that it goes “up to” 85 pages per minute, but the specs also says that it prints at 50 pages per minute.  What’s the deal with this?  Basically, it is just saying that if resolution doesn’t matter for a specific job, this is the top speed.  50 pages per minute is a better rating.  It is interesting, the wax technology is quite different than traditional toner models out there.  First of all, you can add more wax while you are printing and copying.  It is pretty easy to put the wax in the copier.  I took a picture on my phone with a wax block in my hand which you can see here…

Magenta ColorQube Wax

The interesting thing about all of the wax based printers is that you have a non-toxic supply and the petroleum needed to produce the supplies are much lower than the traditional copier companies toner production needs.

Of course the biggest appeal to the Xerox ColorQube 9201, ColorQube 9202 and ColorQube 9203 is that you can get some color for less than 2 cents a page.  Xerox has broken down their cost per prints into 3 color catagories.  These are called Black plus useful color, Everyday Color and Expressive Color.  Even expressive color is in the 5 to 6 cents a page range… 

If you have been hearing about the Xerox ColorQube series in Denver and would like to speak to someone who does not get paid by Xerox about this copier, please give us a call and we will be happy to help you understand the costs, the technology or just answer general questions you may have about the Xerox ColorQube copier!