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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.