Kyocera FS-9100DN Memory & Hard Disc Info

We have just purchased a Kyocera FS-9100DN printer for printing 350 copies
of a newsletter that is 12 A4 sides or more exactly 3 duplex A3 sheets.

Kyocera advised this printer with the standard 32 meg RAM and a Hard Drive
as I wanted collated pages. The HDD is £374 including VAT.

We purchased the standard printer without the HDD and with the standard 32
meg RAM. When printing tests of the newsletter I was only getting 6 A3 pages
per minute rather than a figure less than 19 it's top speed but duplexing
will always slow things down. It would stop for some 14 secs between duplex
pages.

Talked to Kyocera after doing the tests and after much pushing to get them
to explain why the HDD would help here they agreed that the HDD would not
help at all and to fit more memory.

Kyocera price, 64 Meg Ram £153 inc VAT and 128 meg £306 inc VAT in the UK.

Went on to the Crucial site and purchased part number 15342466 a 128 Meg
sodimm for £29.36 including VAT. That's less than 10% of the Kyocera price.
It's working great. This is specified for the FS-1900 but will fit all the
current Kyocera printers.

Now printing at 13.6 pages per minute which equates to a 28% slowdown for
duplex which seems about correct. If I do not use the duplex facility, it
prints collated heavy graphic single sided A3 sheets at around 19 pages per
minute.

So if advised by Kyocera to buy an HDD to speed up a printer, buy Crucial
not Kyocera memory instead.

The reproduction of pictures is excellent on this printer.