[_] colour laser printers?
Pete Marshall
pete.marshall at ibltd.com
Wed Nov 15 15:30:32 GMT 2006
Sounds like you must have had yours set up pretty damn good, our was fine for black and white documents, it was an 8400N but as soon as you printed anything in colour it would get streaks down it, so we'd clean the drum and perform all the rest of the other cleaning processes, 50 sheets later we were back to streaks, a couple of engineers came out and gave it a poke in places I would be afraid to poke a phaser 8400N but still the same issue.
The other one was an 8700 which ran on toner (and plenty of it), this wasn't a bad machine but the duplex would never seem to line up quite right and I'm dammed if i could calibrate the colour on it so that it didn't print really dark, but that was more likely down to me to be honest, it did chew through toner though.
We did leave both of ours on 24/7 though as well due to the distress of starting the thing up.
Personally I think the engineer poking it in intimate places made the 8400 never look at us the same again.
Pete Marshall
http://www.designfreedom.co.uk
> 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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The other one was an 8700 which ran on toner (and plenty of it), this wasn't a bad machine but the duplex would never seem to line up quite right and I'm dammed if i could calibrate the colour on it so that it didn't print really dark, but that was more likely down to me to be honest, it did chew through toner though.
We did leave both of ours on 24/7 though as well due to the distress of starting the thing up.
Personally I think the engineer poking it in intimate places made the 8400 never look at us the same again.
Pete Marshall
http://www.designfreedom.co.uk
> 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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