Kyocera Printers FS-1020D

[Phil]

Just posted about Brother laser duplex printers and noticed this one which
is around £230 with auto duplex. Anyone know of this one?

Phil

 

[Stefan A. Deutscher]

Just posted about Brother laser duplex printers and noticed this one which
is around £230 with auto duplex. Anyone know of this one?

Yup. Got a FS-1020DN, replacing my faithful 1010 (w/o duplux) with it.
Works as expected -- well and fast, and supports not only windoze but
also the mix of OS/2 and UNICes (FreeBSD , Linux, Solaris x86) I have
print to it.

So far, no jamming whatsoever, even with less than top-grade paper.

You may wish to get an extra toner cartridge right away though as the
one supplied is one of those 'limited capacity' ones bound to print only
about 1000 pages, while a normal one prints 6000+ pages.


Other than the FS-1010, it does not exhibit the funny slight clicking
noise when in standby.

Expansion memory can be the same as for the FS-1010, i.e. standard RAM
rather than the expensively priced Kyocera RAM. Here are the specs
It's a 100 pin DIMM module with eight chips. There are four on each side saying

0122 1-1 (or 2-2)
MT 48LC16M8A2
TG -75 E

I suppose this means 75ns RAM. The print on the module itself says

8/16Mx32 SDRAM DIMM


This gives a total of 128MB, 64 MB will be along similar lines.


All in all, I like it a lot.

Cheers, Stefan

 

[Phil]

Yup. Got a FS-1020DN, replacing my faithful 1010 (w/o duplux) with it.
Works as expected -- well and fast, and supports not only windoze but
also the mix of OS/2 and UNICes (FreeBSD , Linux, Solaris x86) I have
print to it.

So far, no jamming whatsoever, even with less than top-grade paper.

You may wish to get an extra toner cartridge right away though as the
one supplied is one of those 'limited capacity' ones bound to print only
about 1000 pages, while a normal one prints 6000+ pages.


Other than the FS-1010, it does not exhibit the funny slight clicking
noise when in standby.

Expansion memory can be the same as for the FS-1010, i.e. standard RAM
rather than the expensively priced Kyocera RAM. Here are the specs
It's a 100 pin DIMM module with eight chips. There are four on each side saying

0122 1-1 (or 2-2)
MT 48LC16M8A2
TG -75 E

I suppose this means 75ns RAM. The print on the module itself says

8/16Mx32 SDRAM DIMM


This gives a total of 128MB, 64 MB will be along similar lines.


All in all, I like it a lot.

Cheers, Stefan

Hi Stefan

Thanks for the information - good of you to take the trouble and looks like
I may get one now!!

An attraction is the toner £50 for over 6,000 pages whereas on my HP1300 its
2,500 pages for the same money

Phil

 

[David Cornish]

Just posted about Brother laser duplex printers and noticed this one which

Yup. Got a FS-1020DN, replacing my faithful 1010 (w/o duplux) with it.
Works as expected -- well and fast, and supports not only windoze but
also the mix of OS/2 and UNICes (FreeBSD , Linux, Solaris x86) I have
print to it.

So far, no jamming whatsoever, even with less than top-grade paper.

I also purchased one recently and have been very pleased with it. Fast,
no jamming, good quality, quiet and duplexing is good. I had a slight
issue printing off one Acrobat file in the early days (it missed out all
in 'n's - search google groups for my message to the group then), but
I've not had any other problems since and I suspect it was merely a bug
somewhere between Acrobat 6 and the printer driver, since I had no
trouble printing it from a different PDF viewer. A highly recommended
printer. It's also the PCPro 'A' list printer if you want to see their
review.

Other than the FS-1010, it does not exhibit the funny slight clicking
noise when in standby.

It's fairly unobtrusive all the time and in standby, beautifully silent
- something I'm very pleased with

Expansion memory can be the same as for the FS-1010, i.e. standard RAM
rather than the expensively priced Kyocera RAM.

Thanks for the info - it's good to know that!

All in all, I like it a lot.

seconded

cheers

David