Konica Minolta bizhub 308e Multifunction Printer

The Konica Minolta bizhub 308e is a floor-standing B&W A3 multifunction printer for workgroups of 15-30 people that need tabloid-size mono output and color scanning, with real headroom on the duty cycle. It runs at 30 ppm B&W on letter (15 ppm on 11x17), posts a 5.4-second first-copy-out and a 25-second warm-up, and is rated for 150,000 pages a month. Standard paper input is two 500-sheet drawers plus a 150-sheet bypass for 1,150 sheets total; max capacity is 6,650 sheets with the LU-302 large-capacity tray and PC-410. Print resolution is 1800 x 600 dpi or true 1200 x 1200 dpi. The 9-inch tablet-style color touchscreen handles complex scan and print workflows with web-browser support for 3rd-party apps; 4GB system memory and a 250GB HDD come standard, so User Box, encrypted PDF, and fax-to-folder work out of the box. Color scanning runs up to 160 ipm via the optional DF-704 single-pass dual-scan ADF (or 80 ipm with the DF-629 reversing ADF), with destinations to email, SMB, FTP, User Box, USB, WebDAV, DPWS, and URL. Mobile printing covers AirPrint, Google Cloud Print, and NFC tap-to-pair. EPEAT Gold certified. The thing buyers regret: 11x17 prints at half the letter speed — heavy tabloid users should size up to the 458e. Predecessor product — buy refurbished or move to the i-Series successors.