Toshiba e-Studio 350 Review

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by Mel Meyers

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Editor's Review
by Mel Meyers 08/31/2010

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Toshiba e-Studio 350

OVERVIEW:

Back before catalytic converters and fuel injection, teens wanted their first car to be something that they could customize. From the engine to the pipes, these legendary hot rods were customized to the whims of their owner-mechanics. For the medium-size office that wants to only have the features they need, Toshiba offers the e-Studio 350 for 2-sided B&W copying, with options to add printing, scanning, facsimile, high paper capacity, and publishing.

Editor's Pros & Cons

PROS:

The e-Studio’s basic model gives you a lot of opportunities to customize it to your company’s exact needs. As two-sided copier, the 350 comes with two 550-sheet paper trays. The e-Studio has a tilt control panel with a touch panel display that switches from function menu to a QWERTY keyboard. Monochrome copies up to 12” x 18” can be made directly on the glass platen, or using the optional duplex Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). Zoom scales from 25% to 400% and up to 999 copies can be reproduced. By storing the image in memory, copies can be reproduced at 600 x 600 dpi at 35 ppm in B&W.

One of the nice features of this multifunction is it can multitask. If the options are purchased, a person can scan or copy directly on the E-Studio while faxing and printing is being done via the network and phone lines. In less than 20 seconds, the e-Studio is ready to copy.

The E-Studio 350 copies at impressive B&W speeds up to 35 pages per minute. Duplex printing and Toner Save allows for savings on paper and in toner. Monochrome print resolutions are enhanced to 2,400 x 600 dpi.

The optional duplexing Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) can handle 2-sided copying of up to 100 originals.
The 350 comes with two 550-sheet cassette trays that support papers from 8.5“ x 11” up to 12” x 18”. A 100-sheet multi-purpose bypass tray handles various paper weights from 17 to 55 pounds and sizes up to 12” x 18”. Additional high-volume paper trays are available to provide up to 2,500 additional pages.

The printer option comes with USB and Ethernet. The stock 256GB of memory and a 60GB hard drive enables this e-Studio to handle most print requests and to encrypt saved jobs to the hard drive. Toshiba has included HP PCL5c, PCL6, and Adobe PostScript3 print emulators to satisfy the most office demands.

Three optional Finishers can give the 350 full publishing features from stapling, multi-hole punch, to saddle-stitch binding for catalogs and magazines.

Data facsimile via a 33.5Kbps modem or via IP is available as a separate option, allowing faxes to be transmitted or received in resolutions up to 600 x 600 dpi.

Scanned documents using the optional scan kit can be exported as 600 x 600 PDF, JPEG, or TIFF files and sent to e-mail, or to it’s the internal electronic filing system. Toshiba allows for public and password-protected folders to be stored on the e-Studio’s 60GB hard for saving scans, copies, prints, and faxes.

CONS:

Because the 350 is configured for customization by the buyer, the buyer should beware that the “stock model” is simply a copier. (Ask anybody who owns a Harley motorcycle: nobody owns a “stock” Harley without putting some add-ons to it.) If you don’t have a technical person in your business, I suggest to most businesses to get the automatic document feeder, and extra paper capacity to make it a more useful copier.

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INK/TONER NEEDS:

The black toner provides 5% coverage on 18,000 pages. Just remember that if you’re doing full- spread layouts and photograph prints, the actual toner usage per page is going to be at least 10 times more, reducing the number of pages you can get out of a cartridge.

Other consumables to consider are replacement of the imaging unit (drum), the fuser and transfer roller, and the waste toner bottle.

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