KIP Copiers in New Jersey: Lease Terms, Service Costs and What to Check Before You Renew

Where the money actually goes on a KIP

KIP’s current G Series monochrome engines are LED electrophotography on an organic photoconductor with what KIP calls a closed toner system, and KIP’s own literature states the G Series is 100 percent toner efficient and uses no carrier or developer. Structurally that means no separate developer material, no waste toner — KIP’s user guide says the technology generates none — and no consumable print head, since KIP describes the heads as permanent and not thrown away. Toner arrives as replaceable toner cartridges. So the recurring supply line on a KIP is narrow, and the lines worth reading closely are the ones sitting outside it: roll media, and the folder, stacker and scanner attachments, each of which KIP lists as a separate option. Ask whether each of those sits inside the service coverage or outside it, and get in writing which of them the area rate actually covers.

What to check on a KIP agreement

The first thing I would reconcile on a KIP quote is the meter unit. KIP’s System K accounting software reports print volume two ways — total number of prints, and total square feet or square meters — while wide-format agreements get written per square foot and per linear foot both, and the same D-size drawing is two to three times more square feet than linear feet depending on roll width. Ask which unit the rate is written in, and which reading on the machine the dealer will bill from. Second is licensing: in KIP’s own System K software lineup, PDF and PostScript printing is a per-printer option, and so are accounting, cost center and access control — the project, department and cost-recovery reporting a firm needs in order to bill drawings back to jobs sits in that optional bundle rather than in the base system. Third is the room, and the electrical spec is not uniform across the line: KIP’s own installation sheets put the 71 G Series on a dedicated 120V circuit with a standard NEMA 5-15R receptacle, while the 75 G and 79 G Series call for a dedicated 220-240V circuit on a NEMA 6-20R, and the 700 C Series is specified at 208-240V. Confirm which family is on the quote before assuming the outlet already in the room will do, because the electrician is not on the equipment quote.

What this line suits

An architecture, engineering, construction or municipal-engineering operation that prints and copies drawing sets in volume and needs output that survives leaving the office — KIP rates the toner output as instantly dry, waterproof, smear-proof and highlighter-safe, which is the difference between a sheet that reads on a job site and one that does not. It is a weaker fit for occasional wide-format work: on the monochrome G Series the published roll media is bond, vellum and film, the systems want floor space measured in feet plus clearance for stacking or folding, and a buyer whose drawing work is intermittent should look hard at whether the one- or two-roll 71 G configuration fits before being walked up to a four-roll production system. A buyer who mainly needs graphics output should be asking about the color series and its media guide instead.

Model families you are likely to see quoted:

• KIP 71 G Series
• KIP 75 G Series
• KIP 79 G Series
• KIP 700 C Series

Worth knowing about KIP right now

KIP’s manufacturer, Katsuragawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange code 6416), went private through a management buyout by Lemon Co., Ltd.; the tender offer closed on September 24, 2025 and the Tokyo Stock Exchange published its delisting decision on October 3, 2025. KIP-branded systems are still listed and shipping, but the manufacturer no longer reports as a listed company, so the ordinary way of checking a maker’s financial staying power across a sixty-month term is no longer available. Separately, the same hardware reaches New Jersey buyers under more than one badge — Kyocera Document Solutions America sells KIP-branded wide format directly — so two quotes from two sources can be the same engine with different service paperwork behind it.

Send me the agreement and I’ll tell you which of this actually applies to your machine and what the numbers should be. That’s free, and it doesn’t depend on whether you end up buying anything from me.

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