New ledger-size color printer from Xerox
June 3, 2009 by Steve HannafordPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Printer Reviews, Product miniReviews
Need a printer that can handle large paper sizes and heavy workloads?
The Xerox Phaser 7500 series is made up of departmental or large-workgroup color printers that can handle pages up to ledger size. They run at 35ppm in both color and black-and-white. Xerox rates it for a 150,000 page per month duty cycle, and a more realistic volume for sustained use might be somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 pages, using our rough rule of thumb. That’s a pretty heavy workload in an office environment.
This model family ranges in price from $3,999 to $4,999, with the higher-end models adding automatic duplexing and extra standard paper capacity.
The paper handling is adequate. It can handle ledger-size paper (and a little bigger), if that’s your requirement, along with legal- and letter-size pages. The maximum capacity is 2,100-sheets of input.
The main trays handle paper up to 11.7″ x 17″, while the bypass can hold paper 12.6″ wide and can accept banner paper up to 47.2″ long.
Output capacity, however, is a bit disappointing. There are only 400 sheets of output and there’s no finisher available.
These are solid printers at reasonable prices given the paper size they can handle. For those who handle a mix of standard color pages and ledger-size ones (for signage or proofs, for example) is a strong performer.
For larger version of this review, see the 2009 Better Buys for Business Color Printer Guide, due out later this year.
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June 10th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Having used the phaser series of printers for many years now, I would be quick to recommend this printer to anyone in the graphics field. The color is better than expected for a laser printer especially in this price range.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I could not agree more Xerox is certainly leading when it comes to graphics , however we are now using Okidata machines which are equallly as good and based on the same printer engines.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Okidata and xerox are using the same printer engines and Okidata is certainly the cheaper option.