It's too loud, to put on the desk next to the phone, but otherwise the Xerox Phaser 6140 is a fast, capable, and - especially with the optional duplex unit - convenient color laser printer, a significant improvement on the model of the 6130 it replaces. At $ 399, it's just like ... But Xerox is buy a little difficult, at least until next year. You see, as we've written before, Xerox has a habit of discounting older, full featured printer until they collide with newer models with lower prices. This is now with the new Phaser 6140 and Phaser has happened to the 6280, introduced in February: The 6140 amounts to $ 399 plus the double-sided printing for $ 149 to $ 548, while a 100-dollar deal from well until 31 December 2009 has reduced the duplexer fitted Phaser 6280/DN to $ 549th
This means that an extra U.S. dollars to buy a printer that is faster (with 26 color and 31 monochrome pages per minute, compared with 19 and 21 ppm, measured), holds more paper (400 versus 250 sheets), has a higher occupancy rate (70,000) compared to 40,000 pages per month, and provides lower cost per page (2.7 versus 3.5 cents for black and 13.9 versus 17 cents for a color page, each of the figures published by Xerox) .
That is a win-the-board for the 6280/DN, even for single-or three-or four-person office, which tend normally would, the 6140 and allow the 6280 to larger workgroups. How much do we want the Phaser 6140 - and we do - we can not recommend buying it until either the discount agreement on its older sibling beefier running on New Year's Eve, or the newer model, get a price its own.
Tall, light and Handsome
The 6140 is a white upright iceberg of a printer, some standing 16.5 cm tall and less than 16 by 18 inches of space on the desk. When you wrestle a 41-pound device from its box, setup is free to draw a dozen bands and streamers of the band, and locking the pre-black, cyan, magenta and yellow toner cartridges into place.
The latter, located behind a door on the right side of the printer that are compact, such as TV remote modules sized to slip into carriers that swivel range in the correct position and lock into place by a plastic latch. It is one of the easiest cartridge handling setups we have seen either laser or inkjet printer in the world.
In the tradition of base printer manufacturers everywhere, Xerox offers 1,000-page starter cartridges instead of one full in the box. Replacement yellow, magenta and cyan cartridges are rated for 2,000 pages and $ 90 per unit price, the black cartridge is rated for 2,600 pages and the price the same. The 6140 operating costs of three and a half cents per black and an average of 17 cents per color page and a little steep, respectively.
The pull-out tray to hold up to 250 letter-or A4-sheet (it is too short for legal paper), it can be coupled to a second 250-sheet input tray for 199th A slot in the front of the drawer, you can feed single sheets or envelopes manually. Printed pages exit face down on top of the printer, supported by a pull-out tray.
A button at the top right to reveal the hinged front of the printer pivot to the pre-imaging unit. The optional duplex unit into place inside the front door in seconds without tools. Interestingly, in contrast to other double-sided set-ups we've seen, treated it leaves in pairs - it prints page 2, remove the foil, pulls prints page 4, the leaf, then there and throws sheet 1 (pages 1 and 2); then Part 2 (pages 3 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and so on - but it worked without any problems or jams in our test.
An Energy Star sticker on the drawer shows the Xerox economical 8-watt power consumption in sleep, by default, kicks in after 30 minutes in standby mode (50 watts) or print (280 watts). Set-up changes such as setting up any other time in idle or turning off the status pages normally printed on power, or to cancel a print job is underway, are pretty much the only reason for using the front mounted LCD menu and buttons; Printing options such as N-up (multiple pages per sheet) will be issued by the included driver PostScript 3 treated. PCL-shops you will find a PCL 6 driver on the installation CD. The 6140 works with Windows 2000 and later, Mac OS 10.3 and higher, SUSE and Red Hat Linux.
Both USB 2.0 and 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces are on the back of the printer found. A WiFi adapter for an expensive $ 219 available, and a 512 upgrade for the Phaser 256 is standard memory for a coronary artery causing $ 719 are available.
Terrific throughput
Xerox provides that the 6140's 600 x 600 dpi with 4-pressure module (4 bits of color per pixel), vivid colors and smoother color transitions and provides a lesser lasers. We consider the four-color pictures-to-be a little less grainy and lifelike than six or more ink jet printer prints, but newsletter or flyer-sized pix looked quite nice.
And everyday text and charts were so small in order, with clear, bold text, such as 4 or 5 points, and smooth-colored surfaces. The Phaser do not think you waiting, either in print: Our one page business letter with spot-color company logo in 15 seconds. Twenty-spaced pages monochrome text has only 1 minutes and 11 seconds, and a 55-page PDF document mixing black text, colorful headlines, and a variety of images in 3 minutes and 7 seconds done.
We are always quickly hung on the tree-saving, office-space-saving advantages of double-sided printing, at least for in-house materials. So we were glad to see that the duplex Xerox does not provide too much pressure slowly, the 20-page Word document in 1 minute and 36 seconds and the 55-page Acrobat in four and a half minutes.
If you do not want duplex, the Phaser 6140 at $ 399 is half a C-note in the discounted Phaser 6280 to $ 449. This is a wider gap than the mere dollars between duplex versions, but we think the 6280 make the higher speed and lower cost per page, the better buy - as we did 6140, the additional speed and PostScript had support under a contest between him and the company pick up entry-level, host-based Phaser 6125 ($ 349). There is, we give the 6140 a thumbs up, but Xerox discount on the 6280 steal the thunder of the new printer.