Xerox color printers

[barry]

anyone have any experience with or comments (good/bad/indifferent) about 
Xerox color printers?  i'm looking at the Phaser 8400 or 6250.  my ideal
printer would be a tabloid size laser/LED/solid ink machine with duplexing,
but that's way over budget.

any comparisons between the Xerox color printers and competitors such as Oki,
GCC, HP, and the rest?  anyone read any reviews of the xerox 8400 & 6250?  at
the Xerox website they now have some refurb'd 6250's, which brings the price
down a bit, plus rebates on new printers thru next month.

to get the tabloid size (11-13" x 17-19") capability i'm looking at ink jets
such as the $400 HP model to supplement the (Xerox) laser/LED/solid ink.  the
base price of a tabloid sized laser/LED costs way more than $400 over a
standard size printer!

i want to be able to use a variety of paper sizes (from 3x5 on up) and media
(plain paper, glossy paper, photo paper, card & cover stock, labels,
envelopes.  banner paper to 30-48" would be a nice xtra but not required.)
duplexing a must.  ethernet or firewire 400 preferred.  hard drive optional.
energy star compliant.  ability to use less ink at a lower dpi for
proofreading preferred.  straight paperpath/one pass printing preferred.
fast time to 1st copy out preferred, fast pages/minute not a big concern.
low cost of consumables preferred (ha ha).

to be used on a g4/400 agp, OS 9.0 now, 9.2.2 & X.3.3+ when i finally get
Panther.

thanks,

--barry
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