Shopping for Konica Minolta Bizhub C551i Developer Units

The Konica Minolta bizhub C551i is a color A3 multifunction printer built for high‑demand business environments. It delivers printing, copying, scanning, and optionally faxing, at up to 55 pages per minute in both color and black‑and‑white for A4, and about 27 ppm for A3. The first page comes out in roughly 3.3 seconds for mono and 4.3 seconds for color, with a warm‑up time in the 12‑16 second range. It uses polymerised toner and laser imaging, with print resolution up to 1200 × 1200 dpi (with an enhanced mode equivalent to 1800 × 600 dpi). The device includes a large touch panel roughly 10.1 inches in size with a modern tablet‑style user interface, standard memory around 8 GB, and a solid‑state drive (SSD) of 256 GB, optional to upgrade to 1 TB. Paper handling is flexible: standard trays plus bypass handle media from A6 through SRA3, custom sizes, and even banners up to about 1,200 × 297 mm; it supports paper weights up to ~300 g/m² in bypass and ~256 g/m² in regular trays. It holds about 1,150 sheets standard, scalable up to ~6,650 sheets with optional trays, and offers finishing options like stapling, booklet making, folding, punching, etc. Scan speeds are fast (up to ~140 ipm simplex, ~280 ipm duplex), and there are strong security features built in including automatic media detection, secure data storage, network protocol protections, and optional antivirus scanning.