Xerox Printers PHASER 6250DP 26PPM 2400DPI ( 6250/DP )

Rating:
Summary: Waste of time, waste of money
Review: I have nothing but bad things to say about this printer. Out of the box the color was way off...I can accept this but it is very difficult to calibrate. I am very familiar with color management but this was really tough. Instead of using an rgb or cmyk slider, they use a 64 color pallete for each color. Thus, if it is too green, you need to make the magenta slightly more reddish. It is very unintuitive.

In addition, the print quality is not great. The pictures are not sharp.

But, the worst thing is, THE PRINTER DOESN'T COLLATE! That's right, the most basic printing function. We print 200 page pdfs and it will not collate. Customer Service says that it is a software problem so they won't help. Not the software that opens the pdf, the software on the actual machine. They won't service the software they install because it can still print and collating was (in his words) "a luxury"! His solution? Buy the $500 internal hard drive for the machine.

I am selling it in an online auction and getting something else.

Rating:
Summary: Great Multi-Purpose Laser Printer
Review: I needed to print some color materials... high quality... went to the local copy shop and the per page cost (2 sided) was over $2.50. Knowing I needed to print a thousand copies, I decided to look for printers! This printer does an excellent job for everyday printing, business graphics, and photographs. The consumables are about $0.15/page (Xerox says $0.08/page based on 7% coverage). The management tools bult in are top notch, and the power management keeps the machine ready without consuming too much power. The LAN connection makes it a perfect addition to our wireless household network.

Rating:
Summary: Not reliable at all
Review: I've owned this printer for 4 months now and it's broken down twice. The first time when the fuser broke down Xerox provided excellent service and talked me into purchasing the extended warrantee. Now the imaging unit is malfunctioning when it's only 1/2 used up, and it is impossible to get a new one anywhere, under warrantee or not, as they are backordered from the manufacturer until mid January. So I'm stuck with pink dots all up and down the side of every page I print until then. This is ridiculous with an expensive machine like this not to be able to obtain a basic consumable part for months. When it's working this printer does produce nice quality, but it's a pain because every time you want to change to a different paper type or size you have to push buttons on the panel on the printer as well as selecting your choices in the driver. Also the duplexer does not work out of Photoshop, which is what I do all my printing out of. If I had this to do over again I'd go with an HP instead - my old HP color laser which cost 1/4 of what this thing did is much more reliable.