Ricoh Aficio GX3000 GelSprinter Color Printer

by Ricoh

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 16.4 x 10.4 inches ; 30.9 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 31 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000N6CE6O
• Item model number: 405509
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 3, 2007

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description Fast color printing for less.
The Ricoh Aficio GX3000 color printer with GelSprinter technology gives you the speed and quality of other color printers for a fraction of the cost. Now you don’t have to settle for dull, black and white documents. Color adds impact, attracts attention, and emphasizes critical facts. And you don’t have to sacrifice your budget either.

The Aficio GX3000, gives you the speed and quality of color printing for a fraction of the cost. View larger.

Easy to use interface. View larger.

The design of the GelSprinter began with the development of a very special ink. GelSprinter Liquid Gel is viscous and penetrative pigmented ink that is resistant to bleeding, smudging, spills, and sunlight. View larger.

What is GelSprinter technology?
The hybrid technology between laser and inkjet printer offering the optimal balance and maximization of print speed and image quality at affordable cost under the business environment.GelSprinter offers you high speed printing by combining three innovative technologies: Liquid Gel, Wide Heads, and the Belt Feeding System.

About GelSprinter Liquid Gel
Gel Sprinter is an economical alternative to laser printing that utilizes a uniquely formulated viscous ink to address the shortcomings of traditional low viscosity inks. There are two types of low viscosity ink: Dry-based, which soak into the paper, spread, dry slowly, and produce dull images, and Pigment-based which dry faster that Dry-based inks, but not fast enough to provide the quality necessary for duplex printing. GelSprinter Liquid Gel has virtually none of these limitations. They are thicker, Pigment-based inks that dry instantly on contact with paper.

About Wide Print Heads
GelSprinter print heads are three times wider that those of conventional inkjet printers. Each print head nozzle is durable, allowing ink to be ejected at greater pressure, which prevents clogging. These extra-wide print heads move in tandem for greater coverage per pass, delivering superior speeds over a much larger printable area that any other inkjet printer. Unlike laser printers, the GelSprinter color printers do nt need to fuse print images to paper, allowing for faster warm-up, recovery, and first-prints, and increased overall productivity.

GelSprinter technology delivers photo-like images in beautiful color without blurring or bleeding, eliminating the need for a separate photo printer.

Belt Feeding System
Traditional inkjet printers use rollers that can leave sheets of paper unsupported, causing them to ripple and jam. Double-sided printing can also cause problems. By contrast, the GelSprinter series of color printers used high-speed electrostatic attraction to hold each sheet firmly in place on its path through the machine, eliminating misalignment, blurring, and other problem and other problems that accompany registration. Additionally, GelSprinter uses a sophisticated Belt Feeding System that practically eliminates paper jams and allows speedy double-sided printing over a laser-like print area GelSprinter printers maximize page ‘real estate’ without compromising image quality or output speed.

Speed up production.
Perfect for small offices or workgroups, the Ricoh GX3000 advanced GelSprinter technology prints 29 and 30 pages per minute in color or black and white--you'll get more done, faster than ever before.

• Get your documents faster since the system quickly warms up from Energy Saver Mode. Plus, the first print is ready in less than 8.5 seconds.
• The large, 250-sheet capacity paper tray and optional 100-sheet multibypass tray and long lasting print cartridges let you print more jobs and longer jobs without interruption.
• GelSprinter wide print heads speed up printing while precisely controlling color saturation for high-quality results.
• The standard duplex mode lets you reduce paper consumption and print at 75 percent the speed of simplex.
• Convenient network flexibility make this series ideal for workgroup settings.
• Quick, reliable paper feeds are obtained with the GelSprinter beltfeeding system.

Create crisp, full-color documents.
GelSprinter viscous inks dry fast so they don't smudge, blur or bleed through--even on plain paper--which is important when you need to print and deliver your documents right away.

• Delivers high quality, bright color and razor-sharp text--all on regular office paper so you can save money on supplies.
• Prints photo-like color images with 3600 x 1200 maximum dpi for professional sales presentations, newsletters, proposals, marketing pieces and more all in house.
• Viscous inks dry completely for less smearing with highlight pens.

Save money upfront and every day after with the affordable business printer
Combining the economy of inkjets with the speed and quality of laser printers, the Ricoh GX3000 color printer are the budget-friendly series. Built-in cost-saving features such as permanent print heads keep the cost of ownership attractively low for the life of the system.

• Level Color Mode reduces supply usage on color images and photos by almost half without affecting text for eye-catching color documents that cost about the same as black and white.
• Energy Saver Mode keeps operating costs low.
• Electrostatic Belt-Transfer System lets you professionally print two-sided documents as well as saving you paper, filing space and postage when you mail large documents.
• Cost per page is reduced, thanks to the large-capacity print cartridge.
• Booklet printing allows you to print two pages side-by-side on one page.
• Print heads last the life of printer and never need replacement.

Features exclusive to the Ricoh Aficio GX3000 color printer with GelSprinter

• 29 page per minute in both monochrome and color
• Waterproof and sun-resistant viscous ink
• 250 standard paper tray
• Optional 100-sheet Multi-Bypass tray
• Permanent print head
• Cost-efficient "Level Color" mode
• High quality color printing on plain paper
• Optional Network Interface Card
• 32MB standard memory
• Supports glossy paper
• Standard Duplexing

Product Description

The Ricoh Aficio GX3000 color printer with GelSprinter technology gives you the speed and quality of other color printers for a fraction of the cost. Now you donâ?TMt have to settle for dull, black and white documents. Color adds impact, attracts attention, and emphasizes critical facts. And you donâ?TMt have to sacrifice your budget either.

What is GelSprinter technology?The hybrid technology between laser and inkjet printer offering the optimal balance and maximization of print speed and image quality at affordable cost under the business environment.GelSprinter offers you high speed printing by combining three innovative technologies: Liquid Gel, Wide Heads, and the Belt Feeding System.

About GelSprinter Liquid GelGel Sprinter is an economical alternative to laser printing that utilizes a uniquely formulated viscous ink to address the shortcomings of traditional low viscosity inks. There are two types of low viscosity ink: Dry-based, which soak into the paper, spread, dry slowly, and produce dull images, and Pigment-based which dry faster that Dry-based inks, but not fast enough to provide the quality necessary for duplex printing. GelSprinter Liquid Gel has virtually none of these limitations. They are thicker, Pigment-based inks that dry instantly on contact with paper.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great printer for photos!, June 1, 2007

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David J. Defoe "david25937" (Saginaw, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ricoh Aficio GX3000 GelSprinter Color Printer (Office Product)

Like most printers this works best in high quality mode. I was recommended this printer for photos. It works great with even low quality photo paper. The images are clear, color is good and the ink does not smear. The salesperson said that you can spill water on the print so I tested it . . . image (on photo paper) did not smear or come off the paper.

Test with card stock did not fare very well. The pictures were not clear. The printer was able to handle the thick stock without any jamming.

In fast mode even the text is a little pixilated and not really clear.

Conclusion: with good paper this makes long lasting crisp clear images in high quality mode. The printer will not print to the edge of the paper so for a photo printer you will need a cutter.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Printer, Bad Toner Pricing, February 19, 2009

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Michael Pietrzak (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ricoh Aficio GX3000 GelSprinter Color Printer (Office Product)

I was very happy with this printer for the first few months that I had it. Like noted, the print quality is good for a laser printer. It is also fairly fast. However, I ran out of yellow toner one day & wouldn't you know it, you can't print a darn thing without all of the cartridges being full (even if I only wanted to print black text). So, I go to buy a new cartridge. Don't bother going to Walmart to find one. It's Office Depot or the internet & you'd better hope they have this rare one in stock. Oh, & if you're used to refill kits or remanufactured cartridges, that won't happen here. It's OEM or nothing, so $40 a pop for the cartridges x 4. Yup, $160 to refill the toner on this for 1000 pages (that's assuming that you use economy mode like two thirds of the time, my experience is actually closer to 300-500 pages before refill). That's $.16 a page. You could go to Kinkos for that much & they'd provide the paper. Now, don't get me wrong, this is a very good printer & does everything it says it will. I only have a gripe about the cost of ownership. I ended up buying another printer for less than the price of refilling the cartridges.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good quality duplexing color at an accessible price, May 7, 2009

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OCDShopper - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ricoh Aficio GX3000 GelSprinter Color Printer (Office Product)

I got this because I wanted a decently fast duplexing color printer. At first I thought that limited me to laser printers or those expensive wax printers until I found the GelSprinters. This is safer and more environmentally friendly than a laser printer, but similar performance and durability.

Pros: good business-quality product, fast, quality ink, duplexing
Cons: long startup time, large footprint, limited ink sources (no cheaper off-brand compatible)
Tip: Wait till this goes on sale. The standard price is much higher than the sale price.

Duplexing was a must for me. I like to have the option to print on both sides without having to put it back through the machine.

Resolution isn't as good as a good photo printer, and there's no borderless printing, so for photos, look elsewhere. This will do fine for general color documents.

As with many printers, performance on high-gloss stock is poor.

Drivers are compatible with older models, like Win98, for those still in the dark ages. (Hey, I remember liking Win98 better than I like Vista.)

Since I use it infrequently and leave it off, my biggest complaint with it is that the startup time can be minutes long, which is annoying. However, if you're using it in an environment where you use it frequently and just leave it on all day, it should do fine.

The starter cartridges do not last long, so go ahead and order ink when you order the printer.