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I hate printers

Printers are the bane of my existence, I despise them and wish we could get around to that paperless office crap I’ve heard about for years. 

With that said, I just installed a Xerox Phaser 8860 that may just be the best printer I’ve ever used.  It prints in color on both sides of the page faster than any black and white printer we have will print on one side with the exception of our behemoth HP LaserJet 9050 in accounting.  Perhaps the coolest thing about it is that it doesn’t use toner cartridges, it uses a block of solid ink.  I can store packages of all four colors of ink in the same space I store a single toner cartridge.  You don’t change them as you do toners, you just replenish them and there’s virtually no waste aside from the box the ink stick comes in.  Did I mention that a package of six ink sticks costs $70 and is rated for 4000 pages more than a $250 toner? 

The administration through the embedded web server is way more impressive than anything I’ve ever seen in an HP too. 

If this thing holds up I can’t imagine ever buying another HP color laser and I’m certainly going to be looking at Xerox for my B&W printing needs too. 

Comments

Hope your Tektronix (whom Xerox acquired to gain the Phaser line) holds up better than they used to. My $DAYJOB had a Tektronix Phaser color and it basically fell apart after about 3 years of daily use (~20,000 pages per year).

We moved to HP and never looked back. We have a HP 9040 and it runs like a champ.

I’ve also worked for places that used Xerox B&W;laser printers. Save your sanity and stick with HP. We had a real problem with gears stripping out on the Xerox lasers.

Well, if we have a problem they’re going to come fix it, they gave us a warranty to extend on-site repairs out to four years for a little bit of nothing, so maybe they’re having better luck with this new line.

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