Xerox color printers

[Snow White]

I have a Phaser 350 (Techtronix, now Xerox).  This thing gives awesome 
colour and will produce different profiles comparable to different 
printers.  Commercial seems to match up well with a US Sheet Fed Press 
for me.  I and my customers really like the quality and colour accuracy 
of the prints.  Both OS9 and OSX drivers are available and my printer 
is old.  The newer models should be very good as well.

I have some down side - ink is expensive, even with free black ink
		-ask if the printer will print in Black only mode (and make sure its 
not 50% black (K) and 50% cyan (C) as some printers do for true black)
		-ebay is your cheapest source for ink - look for large lots with 
colour sticks (not all black)
		-every time you turn the printer on it uses a gob of ink to ready 
itself - never turn it off uses less ink - and then it prints a 
cleaning page (100% coverage) as well
		-these lasers run warm and it takes time (10-12 minutes) to melt the 
cool ink to a liquid for the first print

Also be aware that OSX wants to run with your router with DHCP so check 
that the printer will function with ethernet connection using DHCP.  
Any other connection plan will require more sweat to connect. Example- 
my 350 does not have DHCP but my router has a printer port (like an IBM 
has) and so doe the printer so it is connected via the Printer Cable as 
an LPR Printer - this was a pain is the ass to figure out and I truly 
wish it had the DHCP option.

As above, take a look at ebay.  There are often printers at very 
reasonable prices to be had.  Just make sure you do your homework about 
the costs of running it.  Don't believe what the company has to say 
about costs and ink usage (5% coverage is a 10 line letter on a page).  
Their stats are definately built to sell you a printer and then ink for 
life.

If you qualify Xerox will give you a printer FREE but you need to 
guarantee you will print XX number of pages per month and set a 
purchase contract in place for the ink at the beginning - ya right - 
good luck on this as a small business.  But I would still look it up 
and ask.

jj


On Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at 07:02 PM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote:

> Xerox color printers
> From: "barry" <sjmug at mac.com>
> Message-ID: <auto-000012408200 at mail.ninewire.com>
>
> 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,