Konica Minolta bizhub 300i, Secondhand in Sydney

What is the bizhub 300i?

Konica Minolta slots the bizhub 300i into its bizhub 300i to 750i range as the 30 pages per minute option. The other speeds in the series are the bizhub 360i (36), bizhub 450i (45), bizhub 550i (55) and bizhub 650i (65), in pages per minute. From the maker's sheet, it needs the optional single pass document feeder to reach 100 scanned images a minute, loads 1,150 sheets as standard and 6,650 fully optioned and feeds card up to 300 gsm. Konica Minolta has replaced it with the bizhub 301i.

How many people can share it?

Sized for somewhere between five and fifteen people, going by its speed. Keep it to 25,000 pages a month or fewer, on Konica Minolta's recommendation. Busier than that, step up to the bizhub 360i, 36 pages per minute.

What does secondhand get you?

The grade sets the outlay and the page count tells you the wear, and you get both in writing. A rental or lease can run up to 60 months, limited by the machine's age, and delivery, network connection, scanning set up and a hands on run through for staff are included.

Whatever we sell, we service, and this bizhub 300i is no exception. On a service agreement, one that fails is swapped for a working machine during the term. Rental on selected machines is priced from $15 a week plus GST, once finance is approved.

Four checks before buying secondhand

• The meter reading. Pages printed so far, in writing. That number beats the build year as a guide to wear.
• What comes with it. Extra trays, a finisher, a big paper deck: each one alters the work it can take and the figure on the quote.
• Who looks after it. We do not sell a machine we cannot service, because a copier nobody can fix is no bargain.
• Running cost. Get the mono and colour rates per page in writing, plus what each rate covers.