COPYSTAR CS-5050 TONER CARTRIDGE

Copystar CS-5050 Review

Overview:

The Copystar CS-5050 is one of the most powerful copiers around today. It’s perfect for a large office that not only want a fast copier, but also a copier capable of copying in black and white as well as color. With upgradeable accessories it really is fantastic copier.

Pros:

Probably the most important part of a copier is how quickly it can print out pages every minute. The CS-5050 can produce a massive 50 pages every single minute. This is one of the fastest copiers around in its league. This means it can also produce around 200,000 pages per month. This is a lot of pages, and would suit big company’s that need a massive bulk of copying done every single day. To handle all of these pages are two universal paper drawers holding 500 sheets, as well as a 200 sheet multipurpose tray. These trays can be upgraded to a 3000 sheet letter size tray. Loading paper into the machine is very simple. The paper trays contain paper guides for you to follow, so you know which is the correct way to load it in. Another brilliant feature is the ability to load more paper into the copier as it is running. This helps if you see that the device is running low on paper, and you have a lot of paper to print out.

Although not the best resolution available, it offers a standard 600 dpi resolution, which is what you would expect from a copier in this price range. Paper handling can be a big factor for a business, especially if they are outputting documents that need to be grouped together in some way. The ability to create a booklet with the staple finisher is an excellent addition. It can accommodate up to 16 pages at a time, which is more than most competing units.

Maintaining the copier can be a hard task to do, especially if you don’t know anything about copiers. However, looking after the CS-5050 is very easy. Paper jams can be easily removed, as well as replacing toners. In fact, it is very rare that this copier will get a paper jam but if it does, the screen tells you exactly where it is so you can fix the problem in a matter of seconds.

Using color is a very expensive way of working. Sometimes it can be essential, whilst other times aren’t. If you are looking for a copier that is capable of doing both and try’s to be as cost efficient as possible, then you should look at this copier. Color is only an option that can be used if and when you like, saving you money if it isn’t essential to use. Copystar have added a single pass color unit on top of its color scanner as well as keeping its monochrome marking engine, being as cost efficient as possible.

It comes with a hard drive already built in with the machine (you don’t have to pay extra). It also features long document scanning which allows scanning of documents longer than 17 inches, a feature many document feeds don’t have.

Cons:

There aren’t many disadvantages with this copier. It can do most things such as copy in color, and at a very high rate. However, it is very expensive to buy so unless the office is very big in size, or uses a copier a lot, you should shop around in cheaper markets.

Although two 500 sheet paper drawers are quite large, they could be bigger. This would allow a faster workflow with less time needed to fill up the paper supply. Copystar should have also added an option to see when the paper is running low by adding a paper level indicator to the tray.


Overall the Copystar CS-5050 is a very well built machine. With many features, and the ability to add on to these features makes it a very flexible copier. It is best suited for larger offices as it produces at a very high rate per minute, and per month.