Choosing the best printer when your office has a high volume printing requirement is not always a straight-forward decision. There are lots of excellent printers to choose, and then there are a number of other key factors to consider before you can feel sure you’re making the right choice to fit the current and medium-term needs of your office(s).

The best-fit printer for your business will likely be a laser printer, or potentially LED, and you may wish to consider whether a multifunction printer (to include photocopier, scanner capabilities and more) or single-function model if you don’t feel paying extra for unlikely-to-use features are pushing up the price! You decision should of course depend on a number of additional consdierations, including the number of users and the IT proficiency of those people (if they need straight-forward instructions, make sure you choose a user-friendly system control panel or touch screen), for what will they be using the printer (standard black and white invoices or tri-colour brochures for example!), the expected printing volumes and whether seriously high-quality colour prints or printing on a variety of paper textures, dimensions and thicknesses are are essential capabilities.

So how do you decide which technology and function level are best for your business? Well, it never hurts to lean on an expert, so we’re here to help! Consider one of our top six choices of printers for high volume printing...

The Samsung ML-6515ND/SE

At the lowest price end of the high volume printers spectrum comes the compact monochrome (or black & white) laser printer options. A monochrome laser printer, like this smart Samsung printer, can provide the speed, durability, and paper handling to deal with the high printing volume of a busy office.

The Samsung ML-6515ND mono laser printer gives you both advanced features and intelligent simplicity. With hassle-free integration and easy-to-use functionality, it delivers productivity to your workgroup. What’s more, it can serve as a personal desktop printer in any size office.

Price: approx. €850

Speed: 62 pages per minute (PPM)

Paper capacity: 520 sheets (3660 max sheets)
Paper trays: One plus multifeeder,  
Duplex printing: Yes
Monthly duty cycle: 80,000 pages
Black &White print speed: 62 ppm
Max. print resolution: 1200 x 1200 dpi
Time to first page: 7.8 seconds
Environmental features: Energy Star
Designed for: Enterprise workgroups

Oki Data Monochrome Multifunction Printer ES7170DN

Price: approx. €1,400

Speed: 55 PPM

This fast but low-cost printer is ideal for large teams. The print speed is a fast 55 PPM (black and white only but is available in colour ES7470dn), and Oki Data says the first page print takes about five seconds or less. One perk to using this printer in a workgroup: You can use the OKI Print Job Accounting software to restrict printing to individuals and teams in the company. There's a huge 9-inch color screen for setting up print jobs, copies, scans and faxes. Instead of mobile or cloud printing, the Oki Data ES7170DN letS anyone print using the front-facing USB port from a laptop.

Develop +554 Model

The Develop +554e is a Colour Laser Multifunction Printer.

Develop, previously Konica Minolta, has always been a firm favourite of agencies who need to print high-quality documents for colour print client presentations. This new develop model not only lives up to previous Konica Minolta

Colour laser printer standards but the output quality surpasses them by a mile.

Many current color lasers print photos are excellent options for producing many business materials. With Develop’s higher-quality laser printers, the overall output quality for text, graphics, and photos is exceptionally good and so we’ve seen it being used to even produce brochures, flyers and other similar marketing materials in-house.

Price:  €6,500

Speed: 55 PPM

Paper capacity: 1150 sheets standard (6650 max capacity)
Paper trays: Two, plus one multi-purpose feeder (optional four extra
Duplex printing: Yes
Monthly duty cycle: 80,000 pages
B&W print speed: 55 ppm
Color print speed: 55
Max. print resolution: 1200 x 1200 dpi
Time to first page: 6.5 seconds
Environmental features: Eco-Mode, instant warm-up fuser, Energy Star
Designed for: Enterprise workgroups

The Oki ES7411DN

Oki is looking to address the printing needs of the general-office worker with its Oki ES7411DN, a color laser printer that can handle everything from 3" x 5" cards to banner-size sheets. For security-conscious environments, there is the option of purchasing add-on features such as data encryption and password protection. To monitor the printer, users can view the device's operator panel, which displays toner levels, provides printer/network status, and enables printer and network settings changes. The ES7411DN can hold up to 400 sheets of paper; businesses can opt to add up to two more trays, increasing paper capacity to 1,460 sheets.

Price: €1,100
Paper capacity: 530 sheets standard (1690max capacity)
Paper trays: One; can add up to two more trays
Duplex printing: Yes
Monthly duty cycle: 75,000 pages
B&W print speed: 346 ppm
Color print speed: 34 ppm
Max. print resolution: 1200 x 600
Time to first page: 9 seconds
Environmental features: Energy Star
Designed for: Workgroups

Environmental features: Energy Star
Designed for: Workgroups, lobbies, mobile workers

The Samsung MX7 Series

The Samsung MX7 Series A3 Color Multifunction Printers (MFPs) deliver smart usability that enables businesses to work fast and efficiently. Equipped with high-performance, cost-effective features and embedded security, they are perfect for high-volume printing at a low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Samsung has debuted a new product line of monochrome and color MFPs called SMART MultiXpress 7. The X7000 series prints and copies from 40ppm to 60ppm in both black and color. In addition to printing and copying, scanning and faxing are standard. The X7600 Series includes a 10.1″ touchscreen with a touch-and-slide user interface. The touchscreen pivots at a 90-degree angle. The User Interface Center, powered by Android, includes convenient applications and widgets, such as Copy, Address Book, Help, and Job Status, among others. Users also have the ability to print Web content straight from the device, as well as build custom apps.

There is a 1.5GHz processor and 6GB of memory (2GB of those memory is for the Android OS). There is a standard 320GB hard drive. PCL and PostScript are supported. Standard connectivity are USB and Ethernet; Wi-Fi is optional as is NFC (near field communication). The device is Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible

Price: approx.. €7,000
Paper capacity: 1200 sheets standard (6140 max capacity)
Paper trays: Two; four optional
Duplex printing: Yes
Monthly duty cycle: 300,000
B&W print speed: 60 ppm
Color print speed: 60 ppm

Max. print resolution: 1200 x 1200
Time to first page: 4.5 seconds or less
Environmental features: Energy Star
Designed for: Larger Workgroups

The Oki ES9431dn

The Oki ES9431DN was designed specifically to meet the needs of the graphic art industry. With speeds of up to 50ppm and multi media flexibility, graphic industries and creatives can bring short run prints in house, on demand and in stunning high definition colour. The ES9431DN includes photorealistic image resolution, Pantone color tables, optional 160 GB hard drive and 2GB RAM. The OKI ES9431 enables you to print to a very high standard on up to 360gsm single sided and 320gsm duplex, with media sizes A6 or SRA3 all the way up to 1.3m banners. This model uses cost effective consumables and ultra high capacity toner meaning you get high quality graphic arts printing, in house capacity and media handling flexibility all in one competitively priced package..

Price: €3,400
Paper capacity: 530 sheets (max 2950 sheets)
Paper trays: One as standard; can add up to 3 & high cap feeder
Duplex printing: Yes
Monthly duty cycle: 75,000 pages
B&W print speed: 50 ppm
Color print speed: 28 ppm
Max. print resolution: ProQ2400 Multi-Level technology, 1200 x 1200dpi
Time to first page: 8 seconds
Environmental features: Energy Star
Designed for: Workgroups / Graphic Art Industry

The Develop 754e

The Develop 754e was designed specifically to meet the needs of high volume mono document producers. The ineo 754e provides productivity features to speed your B&W output. Fast 65 ppm print/copy time, standard single-pass dual scanning, modular finishing options and enhanced 9-inch colour touchscreen. Operations like copying, printing, scanning and faxing are effortlessly accessed by the multi-touch panel, which works similarly to most smart-phones or tablet PCs.

Price:  approx.. €8,000

Copy and Print up to 75 B&W ppm A4.

Enhanced 9-inch colour multi-touch screen.

2012 Pick Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Control Panel Design” from BLI

Standard Single Pass Dual Scan achieving duplex scan speeds up to 180 ipm.

High Quality Print Mode - 1200 x 1200 dpi x 8 bit.

Open Office XML Direct Print Support (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx).

SRA3 paper support from trays, bypass and LCT.

Toner and Paper replacement 'on the fly' for maximum productivity.

Warm Up Time of 22 seconds.

Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) as little as 5.15 kWh per week.

For today’s typical business office, laser printers tend to offer greater print volume capabilities because they produce the best text print quality, have greater paper capacity, lower running costs, and (almost always) higher speeds. In recent years, manufacturers have brought prices down considerably and photo print output has improved dramatically over the past 2-3 years.

In the constant quest for greater printing efficiencies in today’s offices, printer technology has advanced to make sure we can produce high-quality print slides for a client presentation, contracts for that new deal and even that email scanned documents from the board of directors at lightning speeds. In other words: we still need to print, and these seven new models fall into a variety of price points and speeds, but all with impressive high volume printer capabilities. Demand for networked color laser printers continues to grow. They offer high-resolution, crisp text, and vivid colors, and are playing a greater role in businesses than ever before.

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