Well, I'm not going to make any real recommendations but we have the Bizhub 650 with Fiery rip. Let me tell you it's a bit of a disappointment. The machine cannot hold a solid color across the paper especially in lighter color builds. We can have one side go from pink to tan when it's supposed to be all tan. The techs have not fixed this yet and we've had it since January.
There are good things about the machine however. It is faster, handles rich black beautifully, has better registration for double sided than our DocuColor 2045 did. The onboard finishing is nice but a bit lacking. The folder is extremely slow but it works.
Ikon told us the machine would do all these things and then we find out it didn't.
Make sure if you are seriously looking at this machine to have a large number of print samples for them to test out for you. And make sure to clarify click charges on B&W and color. We found out that we have a minimum run before we get charged a click for each month. Turns out it's only for color! Any black and white prints we get charged for the click no matter what.
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