Toshiba e-STUDIO 4511

Toshiba e-STUDIO 4511Color at Work tmCopyCopy Productivity:Copy productivity on the Toshiba e-STUDIO4511 was higher than its closest conveniencecolor competitor across a wide range of colorand monochrome copying jobs. Longer multisetjobs further extending the productivity gapdue to the Toshiba e-STUDIO 4511’s fastermonochrome and color print engine.This productivity advantage was morepronounced in monochrome copying wherethe 45ppm monochrome engine offered asignificant speed advantage versus theconvenience color competitor’s 32ppmmonochrome engine.However, compared to Toshiba’s own 45ppmmonochrome only copier-printer (which is builton the same e-BRIDGE platform) theToshiba e-STUDIO 4511 was outperformedacross every test by an average of 12%.This is a minor sacrifice that users may behappy to trade-off in return for the color copy,color print and color scanning capabilities thatthe Toshiba e-STUDIO 4511 offers.Productivity dropped slightly when finishingfeatures were added to a document. Singlesided stapling added around 0.6 seconds perset, with double stapling adding around thesame.Booklet making productivity with the saddlestitchfinisher was slower than dedicatedmonochrome 45ppm competitors, with a 20page booklet taking 40 seconds to produceeach set.However, the bookletmaker is one of the maindifferentiating factors between the Toshibae-STUDIO 4511 and its main conveniencecolor competitor which does not offer thefinishing option at all.Copy Image Quality:Toshiba promotes the e-STUDIO 4511 as abusiness color offering - not a graphics colordevice. Output was good for day to daybusiness use.Toshiba uses a fuser oil roller on its e-STUDIO 4511 rather than an oil tank. Thisresults in a matte finish with less sheen. Thisis the preferred output format of most officeusers, who want to be able to write over thetop of the printed page. This can be difficultin highly oiled glossy pages, as produced onsome alternative systems.There are five color output options;Text/Photo (Default mode), Text, Photo,Printed and Map. The default Text/Photomode delivered good image quality across awide range of original types. Photo modeproduced better half-toning and reproductionof photo images. Printed mode produced thebest quality on printed originals, with none ofthe screen clash/moire which we have seenon some competing devices.Greyscale reproduction within a color pagewas also handled well, with little or no colorbeing evident in various greyscale shades, aproblem that some color devices suffer fromas they attempt to create the light grey shadeby mixing the four colors.As expected with a business color system,image quality fell short of graphics qualitydevices. However, fine detail was fairly wellreproduced, as were areas of dark contrast(which are sometimes lost on business colordevices).Overall, the device met, or exceeded mostbusiness color requirements including; basiccolor output ability, text highlighting, coloredcharts and images, plus the occasionalphotograph.Page Number 8www.BERTL.comtel. 732-761-2311fax. 732-761-2312info@BERTL.comCopyright © 2004 BERTL Inc. 19-Feb-04All Rights Reserved. The license under which this document is made available and applicable law prohibit anyreproduction or further transmission of any portion of this document. This document may only be viewed electronicallythrough the BERTL.com website and may not be stored in electronic or hard copy format. Any reproductionof trademarks is strictly prohibited. BERTL accepts no responsibility for any inaccuracies or omissionscontained in this document.