Phaser 6100DN Network-Ready Color Laser Printer
- 1,200 optimized dpi, true 600 x 600 dpi resolution
- Up to 5 ppm color, 21 ppm black
- 120 MHz processor, 64 MB RAM
- Convenient paper-saving 2-sided printing
- USB 2.0, parallel, and Ethernet interfaces; PC and Mac compatible
This Laser Printers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Everything I expected!
I have had Tektronics (now Xerox) printers before and got this for my home office based on the good experiences I had with their higher-end models. I couldn't believe the price, so I was skeptical about it. So far so good. Great print quality, reasonably quiet during start-up and printing and speedy enough for my needs. Very simple network configuration and setup.
I have no way to confirm this, but it appears to be identical to the Samsung color laser at about the same price. Feature set is identical and so is physical appearance except for branding. Comes with full toners (not starters), which is different than the Samsung. Lots of replacement parts as printing levels get high, but this is pretty standard on color lasers.
Would buy it again without hesitation.
2. An excellent inexpensive network printer
I got one of these when they were heavily discounted a couple of years ago - I was originally just looking for a basic mono network printer, and was astonished when I saw a duplexing colour laser for about the same price. I've since picked up the 500-sheet second tray unit, again very cheaply.
I've had no real problems with it once I'd figured out the installation. I'm using it on a mixed PC and Mac home network - PC installation is entirely straightforward, but Mac users should check Xerox's web site for installation instructions for OS-X 10.3 and above, the manual instructions are only correct up to 10.2
So far I've needed one change of toners, when the low capacity starter toners ran out, which was expensive (but no more so than any other colour laser) and has given me 18 months of service. While it is a little on the noisy side, and slow to start up, it makes up for that by being built like a tank and extremely reliable - I'd be surprised if I've had more...
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Not even for free!
We have one of these at work. Well...two actually. I refuse to put the second one into service.
We were offered one of these for free if we purchased a WorkCenter 35 Pro (another hunk of junk but don't get me started). Even for free, the Phaser 6100 is awful.
It's terribly slow, the memory is not upgradeable, the footprint is far too big (that's because you need to be able to access it from three sides, which, WTF?), it has three separate consumables not counting the four toner cartridges and the quality is about as good as one of those $99 inkjet units from WalMart.
After we got the first one, I swore never again but the boss had already purchased another WorkCenter 35. We've used the second Phaser just once. That was to print out the config page because Xerox would not give us our rebate (that's how they do a "free" printer) without one. We had to unpack it, put the whole thing together, print out the page, tear it back down and pack it back up...
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