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There are now more affordable color laser printers than ever, ranging from discounted old printers to newer and smaller models. Every small office or working group can now use a high-volume laser printer instead of an ink jet printer. Many different vendors now offer color laser printers that are so inexpensive that even individual users can afford them. The Phaser 8400 printer uses not laser but solid-ink technology to deliver gorgeous, smooth color at superior speed, plus PostScript compatibility and color-tweaking you can't get from an entry-level color laser. It's something of a compromise. No match for a laser for cranking out lots of black and white pages, and not quite up to an inkjet for photo-quality images, but it's a very cool one. As a Phaser 8400 solid ink also known as wax-jet or phase-change printer, the Phaser 8400 ink works something like an offset printing press, or a cross between an ink-jet and a laser. It's yellow, cyan, magenta, and black ink come not in liquid or powdered form, but in waxy chunks or small cubes. Actually, not cubes but four slightly different, drop-in shapes, and carved toddler-toy-fashion to fit into the proper slots underneath the hood of the printer. Accustomed to conventional ink and toner cartridges, it was slightly unnerved that the Phaser's front-panel LCD and software driver don't offer an ink-remaining gauge though the former does display a low-ink warning; instead, you simply lift the hood and look. You can top off or add ink anytime, such as before starting a big print job, with no more wondering whether an installed cartridge will go the distance. Unlike the hassles of disposing of or trying to recycle an ink cartridge or waste tank, the Phaser 8400 ink pack is friendly to the earth - requiring you to replace a single tiny kit or image drum lubrication package every ten or thirty thousand pages. There's also a wastes tray you have to keep empty and replace now and then. The crayons are melted within the printer. It draws up to 1500 watts. The Phaser 8400 however, claims that the printer averages less than a fifth of that into an ink reservoir. There is a rotating drum inside which gets heated. The print head, which is a 1,236-nozzle, 600 by 600 dpi, sprays the ink onto the heated drum. Where low-priced color lasers print the matter in four passes, this requires just one pass to print the same matter. The ink sets within seconds on the page, unlike the seeping or blotting that happens when you use an inkjet. You can get the ink off only by scratching with a fingernail as it does not even smudge if you run a damp finger over it. The end result, though dry, still looks almost damp. Color printouts appear with a definite banding in an inkjet printer and a laser printer too has a mild banding effect, but here, even solid-color areas look glossy enough to believe they were painted.
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Phaser 8400 ink doesn't utilize laser technology. It utilizes ink to make stunning color copies very rapidly. It is also compatible with PostScript, and you can adjust color settings in a way that's not possible with a low level laser printer. The Phaser 8400 is a solid ink printer. Instead of using liquid or powdered inks, the Phaser 8400 solid ink printer utilizes small solid blocks of yellow, cyan, magenta, and black ink that are specially shaped to be held and used by the printer. The Xerox Phaser 8400 is revolutionary.
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