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Xerox Phaser 8400N Review

by Dan Littman

- In most ways, Xerox made the Phaser 8400N solid-ink printer a strong candidate for sharing in an office. For $1299, it comes equipped with a generous 128MB of memory and a 100-gigabit ethernet interface, a 525-sheet main feeder and a 100-sheet auxiliary tray. For additional paper capacity you can add one or two more 525-sheet feeders at $399 each. The $499 internal hard drive option supports "walk-up" features such as storing a confidential print job in memory until you go to the printer and enter a PIN, and printing the first copy of a long job so you can proof it before running the whole job. It's easy to use the control panel's special features, thanks to the backlit LCD and the precise prompts in the menus. The printer also has a fair number of tip sheets stored in its memory; for example, while standing at the printer you can print a sheet on how to set up a network connection, how to move the printer, and so on. Xerox also provides a handy reference guide meant to sit in a pouch attached to the printer, and offers extensive on-screen documentation with videos of common tasks.

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Reviewed by: endri1

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Strengths: Good product if you print color text only. Easily to integrate in your network with Xerox CenterWare (can be downloaded from Xerox site). Resolution can be adjusted to suit the job. Compact. Fast.

Weaknesses: Wax cubes are very expensive. Printer will not work if wax is low. Banner and pictures waste a lot of wax. Takes too long to warm up compared to a similar color printer.

Overall Evaluation: Bought 2 of these for my office! On paper things looked good at first, documentation said that each wax cube last for over 3000 pages, but it couldn't go over 900 without adding new wax. Wax is very expensive; $65 for box of three (same color, printer has 4 colors, including black) and these (especially yellow and magenta) go in less than 2 weeks. Printer takes too long to warm up and some people have a problem with the melting wax smell. Overall, not very happy! While I must state that except for being pricey on the wax, everyone is very happy with the printout quality - my only justification for still keeping them, i regret buying these printers. Buy one if color text and graphics is most that you print, stay clear if you print pictures or ppt files with banners and embedded pictures. No other problems
Reviewed by: csambrooks

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Strengths: CheapWaterproof prints.Fast Easy setup

Weaknesses: For small to large businesses. Needs to be printed to to keep head clean, although not as much as previous generations of solid ink. Uses more hydro than lasers to keep the ink melted.

Overall Evaluation: Your review on this printer states that it does about 10 pages per minute. That is its slowest speed. In fast colour resolution it will print a page 24 times in one minute. Tested by myself. Print speeds are rated by engine speed not how long it takes from time sent from the computer. Images and prints can be easy like text or complex images. Xerox rates it at 24 ppm. When the printer starts to print the page to the time the last page comes out. Due to your review some peaple have wanted to return the product claiming Xerox has cheated them. Maybe you should test this again properly!!!

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