Epson Aculaser M1200

An A4 Black and White laser printer with a very small footprint and a low purchase cost. The Aculaser M1200 is aimed at the small office market where it sells against inkjet designs which would offer colour. This printer will usually prove faster at 20 page per minute and its running cost will usually be lower equivalent inkjet printers.

One advantage with the M1200 is large cartridges, a standard size of 1,800 pages and a high-capacity model at 3,200 pages. The machine uses two separate components - a toner/developer and a photoconductor drum.

The M1200 was launched in the UK on 1st November and is on the market in early 2010 at extraordinarily low prices around 60. It is aimed at home and small office users - and people who want a second printer.

The printer appears in very similar form as the EPL-6200L. Both printers are "light" versions of the EPL-6200 which has - a higher resolution at 1200 dpi: -

  • a tray for up to 250 sheet of paper
  • larger standard RAM of 8 or 16MB with expansion ability
  • a network port on the EPL-6200N

Model C11CA71001 Product Code C13S050521

The engine is actually a Minolta design and appears as the PagePro 1100 and 1200, the Konica Minolta Fax 2900, Konica 7416 and as the Lexmark Optra E and as the Epson EPL-5500 and EPL 6200. There are varying degrees of resemblance between the formatters and the cartridges can be rather different.

Comparable products are the Brother HL-2035, Samsung ML-1910 and the HP Laserjet P1505.

Control:

The Aculaser M1200 just has a blue "Ready" light and an orange error light. As usual the lights flash to indicate error conditions. Otherwise control is via the printer drivers.

Duty Cycle:

Maximum monthly volume 15,000 pages/month. This is unusually robust for a low cost printer but probably justified - the engine design was originally aimed at office use.

20 ppm Rated Speed

First page out time 10.2 sec

600 dpi. The EPL 6200 has 1200dpi resolution so the comparatively low resolution of the M1200 might be dissapointing. However people don't buy a mono printer for photographs any more and 600dpi is more than adequate for text.

Paper Handling:

150 sheets (Multi-Purpose tray)

Paper size: A4, A5, B5, ISO-B5, LT, HLT, LGL, GLT, GLG, EXE, F4, MON, C10, DL, C5, C6, Transparencies, Label, customised size: W: 76~216 mm; L: 127~356 mm

Paper weight: 60~163 g/m2

Tray 1:

The printer is a "light" version and just has the 150 page multipurpose tray.

Face Down:

Output 100 sheets (face down)

Duplex:

No auto-duplex option is provided.

Processor:

48 MHz

Memory:

2 MB

Interface:

Both USB and Parallel as standard interfaces

Parallel interface. Use only an IEEE 1284-B compliant parallel connector.

USB 2.0 compliant

Host based print control language

System Compatability:

PC: IBM PC/AT compatible machine with a CPU: Pentium 233MHz or more

Windows support Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / XP 64-bit / Vista 64-bit / Windows 7(*4)

Mac support: - Mac: OSX 10.3.9 ~ OSX 10.5.x

Other support: For compatibility details relating to Linux, Unix, Novell, SAP, etc. please refer to http://www.business-solutions.epson.co.uk/Compatible.htm

Printer Driver (incl. Status Monitor)

Power:

Rated voltage / frequency / current 220~240V 10% / 50~60Hz 3Hz / 4.5A

Power Consumption:

Average printing: 347W, Standby: 41W, Sleep: 8W, Power Off: 0W

Dimensions:

385x279x261 mm

Weight:

6 kg

Acoustic Noise:

Printing: 54 dB(A)

Standby: 39 dB(A)

Sleep: background noise

Consumables:

Consumables for the printer are in two parts giving low running costs. The two elements are

  • - the developer (most people would call this a toner cartridge or toner / developer)
  • - the photoconductor unit

The printer can take standard capacity cartridges with a life of 1,800 pages or high capacity 3,200 page versions. Epson also provide a "return" version where the user is supposed to send the cartridge back to them for recycling and an ordinary cartridge where the cartridge can be recycled any way the user likes.

0521 High Capacity Developer Cartridge: 3,200 pages C13S050521

Return High Capacity Developer Cartridge: 3,200 pages C13S050523

0520 Standard Capacity Developer Cartridge: 1,800 pages C13S050520

Return Standard Capacity Developer Cartridge: 1,800 pages C13S050522

Initial Capacity Developer Cartridge: 900 pages

S051099 Photoconductor unit: 20,000 pages C13S051099

RETURN AND RECYCLE INCENTIVE*6

Return toner cartridges provide customers with a lower priced toner cartridge on the agreement that the empty cartridge will be returned via Epsons free toner collection programme. Toner cartridge return is available only in countries where Epson collection is available.

Warranty:

Standard: 1 year Return To Epson

Optional: 3 years Return to Epson (ECPGRP10)

Optional: 3 years On Site (ECPGRP15)

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