Showing posts with label phaser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phaser. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Xerox Phaser 6180 page count
To see the total page count for a Phaser 6180 printer:
- Press the Menu button
- Scroll down to "Billing Meters"
- Press the OK button
"Total Impressions" will be displayed, followed by the page count.
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- Press the Menu button
- Scroll down to "Billing Meters"
- Press the OK button
"Total Impressions" will be displayed, followed by the page count.
Monday, June 3, 2013
Xerox Phaser 6120
The Xerox Phaser 6120 is a good looking color laser printer from the company’s ever growing inventory of top notch devices for the office. Mainly know for its photocopiers, Xerox has been making inroads on the printer market for a few years now. They are never the cheapest around, but they almost certainly offer the most value for money of any other brand we know.
The usual grey or beige box is nowhere to be seen in the 6120, instead we have a cream box with navy blue panels. It’s surprising how much difference the hint of color is to the overall aesthetics of the machine. While not bulky by any means, the 6120 is a large printer.
Paper is loaded through a 200 sheet paper tray at the bottom and feeds through to the top where it outputs on the top cover. The paper tray can be expanded to 500 sheets for heavier users along with the memory, hard drive and duplexing. This makes the 6120 a very flexible and customizable unit.
On the top right is a small control panel with grayscale LCD. The ring of four buttons surrounds the center one are all easy to use, and easy to select individually without accidentally hitting one of the others. The screen is a bit dim, and can be hard to read, but the functions are intuitive enough to not need much reference.
Lifting the top cover and folding down the front exposes the toners. There are four in total, the black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Once exposed they are pretty easy to swap out and for once, the starter cartridges are already installed!
Print quality overall was excellent. Both solid colors, business graphics and photos were reproduced with surprising accuracy. Photo images are also free of noticeable banding and color is graduated nicely. Even shadow detail is better reproduced than on many other color lasers weve tested, including some much more expensive ones.
The Phaser 6120 averaged print speeds of around 10 pages per minute for black text and just over 2 for color. It takes a little over a minute for internal diagnostics and set up when you switch it on at the start of the day before you see any prints, but once warm, response time is good.
The Phaser 6120 is a good quality printer that would be right at home in a small or home office. The reproduction is of good enough quality for almost any use. The flexibility of being able to upgrade the machine as you go along is also a great selling feature. We would have no compunction about recommending this printer to anyone.
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The usual grey or beige box is nowhere to be seen in the 6120, instead we have a cream box with navy blue panels. It’s surprising how much difference the hint of color is to the overall aesthetics of the machine. While not bulky by any means, the 6120 is a large printer.
Paper is loaded through a 200 sheet paper tray at the bottom and feeds through to the top where it outputs on the top cover. The paper tray can be expanded to 500 sheets for heavier users along with the memory, hard drive and duplexing. This makes the 6120 a very flexible and customizable unit.
On the top right is a small control panel with grayscale LCD. The ring of four buttons surrounds the center one are all easy to use, and easy to select individually without accidentally hitting one of the others. The screen is a bit dim, and can be hard to read, but the functions are intuitive enough to not need much reference.
Lifting the top cover and folding down the front exposes the toners. There are four in total, the black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Once exposed they are pretty easy to swap out and for once, the starter cartridges are already installed!
Print quality overall was excellent. Both solid colors, business graphics and photos were reproduced with surprising accuracy. Photo images are also free of noticeable banding and color is graduated nicely. Even shadow detail is better reproduced than on many other color lasers weve tested, including some much more expensive ones.
The Phaser 6120 averaged print speeds of around 10 pages per minute for black text and just over 2 for color. It takes a little over a minute for internal diagnostics and set up when you switch it on at the start of the day before you see any prints, but once warm, response time is good.
The Phaser 6120 is a good quality printer that would be right at home in a small or home office. The reproduction is of good enough quality for almost any use. The flexibility of being able to upgrade the machine as you go along is also a great selling feature. We would have no compunction about recommending this printer to anyone.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Xerox Phaser 6180
The Xerox Phaser 6180 is a color laser printer that places the company firmly in the printer market. Known mainly for its photocopiers, this foray into printers is a bold move by Xerox. The industry already has some heavy hitters, so attempting to join them is an ambitious thing indeed.
The 6180 is a bulky machine, but not so big that you couldn’t use it as a home worker or telecommuter. It looks remarkably similar to the Dell 3110cn, but maybe that just coincidence. They both have a more vertical construction than many others on the market, so it’s footprint is kept to a minimum.
Paper is handled by a 250 sheet paper tray at the base, and a 150 sheet tray you can use by folding down a flap at the front. There is also an optional 550 sheet drawer you can buy if you’re a heavy user. Under the flap for the manual tray is where the toners can be found. There are four that sit in a row one above the other.
Print speed is average in its class with it producing text at a rate of 23 pages per minute and images at 2 pages per minute. If you want to print in photo mode, on glossy paper then that rate drops to .5 pages per minute.
Print quality is excellent for text, and good for images. Color tended to appear dark until we adjusted it in the control panel. After that it was clear and even from then on. Image quality was pretty good, with only a little evidence of artifacts on our photo sample. Text was very clear, with edges being clear and sharp even down to the smaller point sizes.
The enclosed documentation is excellent. The 6180 has a very clear and well produced user guide and set up instructions. Users of any skill level will be able to have the printer up and running in no time.
The control panel is simple and easy to use. It has a few buttons for features and menu navigation and the screen is mainly there for maintenance. It displays error codes, paper and toner levels, so you have a constant idea of when they might need replacing.
The 6180n is network ready and is straightforward to add to workgroups. There is also a 6180dn which adds a duplexing function to the printer. The basic 6180 has the option of upgrading but it will cost an extra $200 to do so.
Overall the Xerox Phaser 6180 is a good, solid performer. It prints well, reasonably quickly and has the Xerox brand behind it.
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The 6180 is a bulky machine, but not so big that you couldn’t use it as a home worker or telecommuter. It looks remarkably similar to the Dell 3110cn, but maybe that just coincidence. They both have a more vertical construction than many others on the market, so it’s footprint is kept to a minimum.
Paper is handled by a 250 sheet paper tray at the base, and a 150 sheet tray you can use by folding down a flap at the front. There is also an optional 550 sheet drawer you can buy if you’re a heavy user. Under the flap for the manual tray is where the toners can be found. There are four that sit in a row one above the other.
Print speed is average in its class with it producing text at a rate of 23 pages per minute and images at 2 pages per minute. If you want to print in photo mode, on glossy paper then that rate drops to .5 pages per minute.
Print quality is excellent for text, and good for images. Color tended to appear dark until we adjusted it in the control panel. After that it was clear and even from then on. Image quality was pretty good, with only a little evidence of artifacts on our photo sample. Text was very clear, with edges being clear and sharp even down to the smaller point sizes.
The enclosed documentation is excellent. The 6180 has a very clear and well produced user guide and set up instructions. Users of any skill level will be able to have the printer up and running in no time.
The control panel is simple and easy to use. It has a few buttons for features and menu navigation and the screen is mainly there for maintenance. It displays error codes, paper and toner levels, so you have a constant idea of when they might need replacing.
The 6180n is network ready and is straightforward to add to workgroups. There is also a 6180dn which adds a duplexing function to the printer. The basic 6180 has the option of upgrading but it will cost an extra $200 to do so.
Overall the Xerox Phaser 6180 is a good, solid performer. It prints well, reasonably quickly and has the Xerox brand behind it.
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