Kyocera ECOSYS P4060dn Review

Good: Robust finishing options, standard wireless connectivity, 9" color touchscreen panel with customizable home screen.
Bad: Not intended for businesses with low-volume printing needs.
Bottom Line: Ideal for medium and large businesses that don't need color printing features.
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Kyocera
P4060dn
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Medium, Large
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60 ppm
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1.2 GHz
4 GB

Product Overview

The new Kyocera ECOYSYS P4060dn is a black-and-white single-function printer aimed at medium and large offices with high-volume printing needs. It prints at up to 60 ppm and has a first-page-out time of 3.8 seconds. The P4060dn comes with a 9″ color touchscreen display panel that has a customizable home screen. Also included is a 1.2 GHz processor, 4 GB of memory, 8 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) and a 320 GB hard drive.

PCL, PostScript and XPS printing are standard, and USB, Ethernet and wireless connectivity are supported. Users can print from their mobile devices via Mopria print service, Google Cloud Print, Apple AirPrint or Kyocera’s dedicated mobile print app.

More details is in our Features section below.

Features

Paper handling starts with a dual 500-sheet tray and a 150-sheet multipurpose tray. One of the 500-sheet trays support up to legal size, while the other can accommodate up to 12″ x 18″ in paper size. There are three optional paper sources: a dual ledger-sized 500-sheet tray, a dual letter-sized 1,500-sheet tray and a 3,000-sheet letter-sized side deck. The maximum paper capacity is 7,150 sheets. Kyocera also offers an optional banner paper guide and an optional job separator.

There is a standard 500-sheet output tray. There are a few finishing options. First, there’s a 1,000-sheet finisher with 50-sheet multiposition stapling. An optional hole punch kit can be added to the finisher. Then, there’s a 4,000-sheet finisher with 65-sheet multiposition stapling. It supports three additional options: a hole punch kit, a booklet finisher/tri-fold unit and a seven-bin mailbox.

The maximum monthly volume is 300,000 pages. Automatic duplexing is standard.

Other printing features include EcoPrint, private print and job management.

The printers include standard security features, such as local authentication, network authentication and LDAP. Users can purchase additional features, such as a data security kit or a card authentication kit.

  • Automatic Document Feeder?
  • Duplexing?
  • Ethernet Connectivity?
  • Wireless Connectivity?
  • Mobile Printing/Scanning?
  • Finishers?

Shortcomings

The P4060dn printer is not intended for businesses with low-volume printing needs.

About

KYOCERA Document Solutions America, Inc., headquartered in Fairfield, N.J., is a leading provider of computer-connectable document imaging and document management systems, including network-ready digital MFPs/printers, laser printers, color MFPs/printers, digital laser facsimiles, and multifunctional and wide format imaging solutions. KYOCERA Document Solutions America is a group company of KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., a core company of the KYOCERA Corporation, the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of advanced ceramics and associated products, including telecommunications equipment, semiconductor packages and electronic components.

Copystar brand: Kyocera also sells its machines under the Copystar name, which is a brand originally created for its smaller dealers, but now sells a full range of color and black-and-white MFPs and printers. The Copystar models are identical to the equivalent Kyocera ones and sell at the same prices.

Distribution: Kyocera sells its copiers primarily through dealers, though it has recently been expanding its direct organization and now has about 10 branches. It has more dealers than some of its rivals — approximately 420, compared to an industry average of about 350.

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