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| Color Laser Printers - Reviews, Ratings & Buyers Guide |
| Xerox Phaser 8200B Review, Rating & Buyers Guide |
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If you are researching a new Color Laser Printer , we hope that our Xerox Phaser 8200B Review, Rating & Buyers Guide will help you.It might seem silly to recommend a printer that costs as much as 10 standard inkjets, but the Xerox Phaser 8200B makes a lot of sense for some users. Granted, at this price, it's certainly not for everyone, especially the casual user. However, with home networks becoming much more common, many households churn out a lot of printed paper every month. When you add up schoolwork, pages printed off of the Web, and a home office's printing needs, it's not uncommon for many homes to go through three or four reams of paper every month. With the cost per printed page averaging between 15 and 20 cents for many inkjet printers, you're probably spending $60 or more a month on printing supplies. The Xerox Phaser 8200B, the latest "solid ink" printer from Xerox, costs a fair amount to buy. However, the printer, which uses blocks of colored ink that are literally melted onto the page, drops per-page printing costs to well under 10 cents a copy, and often even lower. Print quality, at 1,000dpi resolution, is super, easily the equal of most color laser printers. The Phaser 8200B is also fast--very fast. Color and monochrome speeds are the same, 16 pages per minute, and the Phaser 8200B actually prints at that speed. The first page out takes about 9 seconds, once the printer warms up. The Phaser 8200B is left on all of the time--it shifts into power-save mode when you haven't printed on it for a while. Most printers in the Phaser 8200 line have built-in Ethernet capability (the 8200B does not have this feature). There are also parallel and USB interfaces, but you really do need to connect a printer like this to a network to get the most out of it. Different models of the Phaser 8200B offer more memory, a hard drive to store print jobs, and an automatic duplexer to turn the paper over so that you can print on the second side. On the base model, you can still print on both sides of a page, but you need to turn the paper over manually. For many users, a $200 or $300 color inkjet printer will be fine. For those users who want or need more, the Phaser 8200B is a terrific color network printer that will give you economical service for years.
Con: Expensive to buy. |
