Review The sales ratio of colour to mono laser printers continues to swing towards colour, and not just in the SoHo market. If you want to buy a colour machine for a small business or a reasonably-sized workgroup, say four or five people, then the Xerox Phaser 6280V/DN certainly deserves a look.
Xerox’s Phaser 6280V/DN
Xerox still has a good name in Printing, left over from the days when xerography was the only sensible means of getting a plain paper photocopy. Its laser printers are known for good quality print and robust construction. The Phaser 6280V/DN is a colour laser with both duplex print and network capabilities straight out of the box, though it is a substantial box.
Although the printer is large, it manages to maintain a small footprint by having a vertical design. Pull down the large front cover and you can see the four integrated drum and toner cartridges stacked up, one above the other. These are supplied in situ, although you have to remove each one to pull off its sealing strip, before starting to use the printer. Read the rest of this entry »
Review The more people using a printer, the bigger it has to be, if only to hold extra paper. In fact, workgroup printers seem to have to be big simply to impress more people. Lexmark’s T650DN starts large and is eminently expandable, so will only get larger.
Lexmark’s T650DN: a big printer, but quick and cheap to run
Lexmark may have a reputation for cheap but uninspired inkjet all-in-ones, but its laser printers are generally well regarded, a product of its heritage as IBM’s printer division and something it has never really lost. The T650DN is designed as a duplex workgroup printer with a high throughput and considerable expandability. Read the rest of this entry »
