Just a note on the color printers. The Tek/Xerox 850's really are quite
pretty and very precise and I like them a lot (we have several) but:
They have a lifetime about 1/10th that of a
B&W laser and need 10x more maintenance. This
shouldn't be news but it has consequences if
it will be your main printer. This is not
bad for a really nice quality color printer
in this pricerange.
Xerox maintenance, at least around here, is
quite good. You get sent to the website for
user fixes but, after you try those, they
are good about getting technicians out and
ours know what they are doing.
The colors are vibrant but over time, pages
that are bent a lot tend to flake off a bit.
This isn't extreme but you should know it for
any documents that need to be referenced for
a long time.
Some of our graphics people prefer the more
"smoothed out and muted" look of the xerography color
for flesh tones.
Even these aren't quite as vibrant as the old
horrifically expensive and tricky dye sublimation printers
but they are more vibrant than the xerography printers we
have tried.
If you use Appletalk with them, they need rebooting
about once/month.
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David Fetrow
Distributed Computing Services
Applied Physics Lab, Univ. of Washington
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, John Perkins wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 18:03:33 -0700
> Ron Parachoniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have recommendations for a good colour printer that works
> > with the LPRng (ifhp) page accounting?
>
> We've got a Phaser 850 (replaced by newer Phaser models); print quality is great.
>If you're doing more transparencies, consider the "laser-class solid ink" printers
>over the true laser printers; the wax ink gives more vibrant colors on overhead
>projectors.
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