Club Printer

Kyocera sells a range of laser printers into the small business to enterprise market space and the FS-2000D sits at the lower end of its workgroup offerings. Its comparatively high asking price of just over £400 reflects its speed rating of 30ppm and the inclusion of a duplex facility as standard for double-sided printing.

Kyocera laser printers have always looked functional, rather than aesthetically pleasing and the FS-2000D is no exception. Its cuboid shape is relieved by a slight curve to the front of its top panel and a scallop out of the front of its paper tray, and while its computer-beige colouring is broken up by a couple of dark-slate panels, it’s still basically a big box that prints.

TrustedReview made a review of the Kyocera FS-2000D and here are some of their impressions. Paper feeds from a substantial, 500-sheet paper tray underneath and you can fit a second, identical tray below that, as an option. Above the tray is a pull-down, multipurpose feeder, which can take a further 100 sheets.

Kyocera claims print speeds of up to 30ppm for the FS-2000D and while these are likely to be for draft mode print, we managed to print a five-page text test piece in 23 seconds, giving it a real world, normal print speed of just over 13ppm. The mixed text and graphics page, which is a five-off print of a single page, completed even more quickly, in 20 seconds, so touching 15ppm.

The printer's built-in duplex unit handles two-sided printing economically, taking each page back in from the output tray to print the second side. Print speeds are slightly lower, but at 13ppm, are still very respectable.

Kyocera’s unique lifetime drum and fuser means that the only consumable you’re paying for is toner and a cartridge sufficient for around 12,000, five per cent cover pages costs just under £60. This gives a page cost, including VAT and paper, of 0.95p.

The conclusion is that the key feature of the Kyocera FS-2000D, like so many of its stable mates, is it's low running costs. At less than a penny per page, even the comparatively high price of the machine seems reasonable. However, the print quality we saw under test is no great shakes and isn't as good as from some previous FS models. While for many general office uses it will be adequate, we’ve seen more balanced greyscale output from several other mono lasers under test.

Read the full review on TrustedReviews.

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