Advice on A3 office/graphics grade printers/copiers

I work for an architects firm and we've had quite a bad experience with A3 copiers/printers.
One of our main problems is that we share our machine with a Quantity Surveyor; they need fast warm-up/fast print/black and white. And we need colour. These two aspects seem to be mutually exclusive.
We originally had a Canon iR2200 which suited the QS fine but we needed colour so we went for the Canon CLC 3220, but it can take 6 minutes to warm up after being left for a while, and the feeder is hugely inferior to the iR2200 which has caused us no end of problems. (we're thinking about upgrading to the CLC 4040 or CLC 5151, which have the more reliable feeder, but they still take a long time to warm up). In the process we've also been offered a Xerox 7335 which seems pretty good with regard to drivers, warm up time and ppm, but I'm not sure about colour quality.
So, unless someone can advise on a machine that can marry these conflicting needs we were thinking of going back to having a black and white copier and a separate colour printer. Has anyone got any perls of wisdom? And can anyone recommend a good (mac-optimised) A3 colour laser printer?

I am posting here because I am hoping someone else will respond re: a Xerox 7335. We recently got one at the office and are very pleased with its print quality, but I have had problems getting it to work correctly with Leopard. Has anyone set this up successfully? In particular I need to be able to attach account numbers (user ID numbers) to print jobs.
Thanks.

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Currently we lease a Canon iR2200 (which is black & white) via IKON in the UK:
http://www.canon-europe.com/ForWork/Products/Office_Print_Copy_Solutions/Digital_IRSeries/iR2200/index.asp?ComponentID=25508&SourcePageID=26027
http://www.uk.ikon.com/
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The thing is IKON only supply Canon and Ricoh machines, and they warned me off Xerox, I can't remember his reasons. In any case I'm wondering if there's a printer/copier of this sort of grade with better support for Mac OS X? For instance, the DocuColor 240/250 has a fully Mac OS X version of the EFI Fiery Printer Controller (but is probably out of our price range):
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I am trying to put the finishing touches on a conversion to mac and have been looking at buying a Power Backup in part for the power part (no crashes and safe shutdown) but also for surge protection.
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Hi Jon,
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