[_] colour laser printers?
Tom Gidden
tom at gidden.net
Wed Nov 15 15:02:14 GMT 2006
On 15 Nov 2006, at 14:15, Pete Marshall wrote:
> Couldn't advise you what to buy but i can tell you I'd stay away
> from xerox phasers, I've used 2 in the past and had an absolute
> nightmare with them particularly the one with wax sticks, We were
> using them pretty hard to be fair, but the very tanned well
> holidayed xerox salesman assured us this wouldn't be a problem. I'd
> hunt him down if I didn't think he was sunning it up in the Costas.
Hmmm.. we had the opposite experience with a Xerox Phaser 8200N. I'm
not discounting your experience, Pete, but I'd like to know what was
wrong with it, because I'd otherwise recommend the Phaser to others.
Apart from the power board going BANG and having to be replaced under
warranty due to a power spike, it worked great. It did have one
strange quirk: that it should always be left on, as each power cycle
expends a few quid worth of wax and stresses it out a bit. So, we
put it on a UPS after the power board went.
Nice repeatable uniform colour. Unlike a laser, going low on a given
colour doesn't result in lighter shades... it works fine until it
runs out, at which point it stops.
We used it for between 20 and 100 pages a day for at least two
years... it was still going strong when I left.
Tom
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Tom Gidden
http://gidden.net/tom/
> Couldn't advise you what to buy but i can tell you I'd stay away
> from xerox phasers, I've used 2 in the past and had an absolute
> nightmare with them particularly the one with wax sticks, We were
> using them pretty hard to be fair, but the very tanned well
> holidayed xerox salesman assured us this wouldn't be a problem. I'd
> hunt him down if I didn't think he was sunning it up in the Costas.
Hmmm.. we had the opposite experience with a Xerox Phaser 8200N. I'm
not discounting your experience, Pete, but I'd like to know what was
wrong with it, because I'd otherwise recommend the Phaser to others.
Apart from the power board going BANG and having to be replaced under
warranty due to a power spike, it worked great. It did have one
strange quirk: that it should always be left on, as each power cycle
expends a few quid worth of wax and stresses it out a bit. So, we
put it on a UPS after the power board went.
Nice repeatable uniform colour. Unlike a laser, going low on a given
colour doesn't result in lighter shades... it works fine until it
runs out, at which point it stops.
We used it for between 20 and 100 pages a day for at least two
years... it was still going strong when I left.
Tom
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Tom Gidden
http://gidden.net/tom/