Xerox Phaser 6360 Review

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by Mel Meyers

(3.00/5)

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Editor's Review
by Mel Meyers 08/31/2010

(3.00/5)

Xerox Phaser 6360

OVERVIEW:

With speeds that surpass many monochrome lasers, the HYPERLINK Xerox Phaser 6360 has color speeds up to 42 ppm, and can produce photo-quality prints at 2,400 x 600 dpi. If that isn’t enough, you can add options to the base model to increase it’s usefulness for any medium size business or small publishing office.

Editor's Pros & Cons

PROS:

Xerox likes to up the ante when it comes to the speed of their color printers and the Phaser 6360 is no bluff. Normally color printers have two speed specifications: one for B&W printing (always faster) and one for color printing (usually slower), and usually the B&W printing is not as fast on a color laser printer as with a monochrome-only laser. Not when it comes to the 6360. Be it B&W or color, it’s single-pass design allows it to print up to 42 pages per minute. And with resolutions as high as 2,400 x 600, text and colors are sharp and vibrant.

The 6360 comes with a 550-sheet cassette tray that supports up to legal-size (8.5” x 14”) paper. A front panel hides a 150-sheet multi-purpose flip tray for labels, post cards, envelopes, 3” x 5” postcards, paper bond weights up to 60 lb, and transparencies (Note: There is a difference in transparency film that’s used for color lasers versus monochrome lasers.) . For more capacity, a second 550-sheet tray can be attached. For two-sided printing, a duplex unit option can be added to the 6360 (standard with the 6360DN model).

Having built-in Ethernet network support, and hi-speed USB, this printer will be right at home either in the middle of an office floor or directly connected to a secretary’s computer. The built-in 256MB of printer memory can be expanded up to over 1GB for handling larger and more print jobs.

Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses in providing support for the major software applications, Xerox has included the popular HP PCL6 and Adobe PostScript3 print emulators to satisfy the most diverse office demands. For color matching in publication, the Phaser 6360 can be set for Apple ColorSync, CIE, PANTONE, and Adobe PostScript color standards.

The intuitive control panel on the Phaser 6360 has a 6-line animated LCD Display that defaults to show toner levels and information. The buttons are set up to make understanding what each one does intuitive. The control panel, toner levels, printer information, configuration, errors, and network settings can be performed directly through the control panel or using Xerox’s CentreWare IS web application.

The Phaser 6360 is available in 3 more models: the 6360DN offers 2-sided printing, the 6360DT which comes standard with duplexing, a second 550-sheet tray and an additional 256MB of RAM, and the 6360DX which has all the features of its siblings plus a 1,100-sheet wheeled paper tray platform, and a 20GB hard drive. All of the extra features are also available for this base model as options.

CONS:

The printer produces up to 58dB of sound printing, and idles at 34dB. To give you an idea of what that means: 60 decibels is the level of normal conversations and 30 decibels is the level of a quiet room. It’s a little loud to be sitting next to your desk, but will blend in with surrounding background noises if put in the middle of an office or copy room.

The included software and a 3rd party desktop app make this printer perfect for low-volume publishing of newsletters or catalogs. While 5.5” x 8.5” booklets are possible, it would be nice if the Phaser had an option for double-side printing of 11” x 17” ledger-sized paper for desktop publishing of 8.5“ x 11” booklets or catalogs.

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INK/TONER NEEDS:

Xerox provides you will full standard-yield toner for all four colors. The black cartridge is good for 3,000 pages, the cyan, magenta, and yellow good for 2,000 pages (providing you’re not printing full-spread photographic images or graphics). High-yield cartridges are available with up to three-times the capacity. Toner combo-packages are available to save on costs.

Other consumables to consider are replacement of the imaging unit (drum) and transfer roller after every 35,000 pages, and the fuser after every 100,000 pages

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