Xerox Phaser 7400 Review

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by Mel Meyers

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

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Xerox Phaser 7400

OVERVIEW:

Nowadays every business talks about consolidation. If you’re looking to “consolidate” several of your printers for a networked printer that can not only handle a high volume of print jobs, but can offer fast color laser printing, oversize prints, and have the expandability to handle in-house publishing, take a look at the Xerox Phaser 7400.

Editor's Pros & Cons

PROS:

The 7400 comes with a 550-sheet cassette tray that supports papers from recycled 17# to 80# cardstock, sizes ranging from 8.5“ x 11” up to 12” x 18”. The side panel hides a 50-sheet multi-purpose flip tray for labels, 4” x 6” post cards, envelopes, paper bond weights up to 100 pounds, transparencies. For more capacity, up to 4 more 550-sheet trays can be attached for 3,000-page capacity.

After the 12 second delay for the first page, the Phaser 7400 prints at speeds up to 40 ppm in black-and-white. Using single-pass color printing, the printer will shoot out pages at its highest resolution at an impressive 36 pages per minute. In 600 x 1,200 dpi Enhanced mode, smaller fonts and fine lines are sharp. Photo mode produces brilliant photographs.

The base-model 7400 comes standard with Ethernet, parallel, and hi-speed USB. 256MB of expandable memory enables the Phaser to handle any size print request from any number of computers or set up on a server.

Understanding the printing needs of today’s businesses in providing support for the major software applications, Xerox has included HP PCL5c and Adobe PostScript3 print emulators to satisfy the most office demands. For color matching in publication, the Phaser 7400 can be set for Apple ColorSync, CIE, PANTONE, and Adobe PostScript color standards.

The Phaser 7400 is available in 4 more models: the 7400DN adds 2-sided printing to the 7400N base model; the 7400DT has those features and a second 550-sheet tray and an additional 256MB of RAM and a 20GB storage drive; the wheeled 7400DX has all the features of its siblings plus a 1,650-sheet high-capacity feeder, and 12” x 36” printing; and finally the 7400DXFoffers full publishing features with a 1,000-sheet finisher that can staple, hole punch, and bind for catalogs and magazines. If you happen to start off with the base model all of the features of the other models are available as add-on options.

Xerox’s Intelligent Ready software is built into all Phaser 7400’s. Just like an automobile’s computer, the software tracks printing patterns for the first 3 weeks of its use to determine the periods it’s not in use. After gathering this data, the printer goes into a power-saving standby during the “down time” and wakes itself up at the times it knows it gets used. (Now if they can only invent something like this to wake us up before the boss stops by.)

The intuitive control panel on the Phaser 7400 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 pretty 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 if you have the Ethernet option).

CONS:

This is one of the more noisier printers, especially when you add all the goodies to make it a complete 7400DXF. To keep printing distractions to a minimum, it’s best to place this Phaser with the company copier or in a room with a closed door.

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INK/TONER NEEDS:

The top of the Phaser lifts up to gain easy access to the toner units. Xerox provides you will full standard-yield toner for all four colors. The each cartridge is good for 9,000 pages (providing you’re not printing full-spread photographic images or graphics). For offices that do color prints that exceed the 5% area coverage used for measuring yield, consider going with the double-capacity high-yield cartridges. Toner combo-packages are available to save on costs.

Other consumables to consider are replacement of the imaging units (drums) and toner waste bottle after every 30,000 pages; the fuser and transfer roller after every 100,000 pages.

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