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Xerox WorkCentre 7665 Review
 
Editor's Review
Xerox WorkCentre 7665 by Mel Meyers 08/31/2010 OVERVIEW: Often multi-function printers are usually gussied scaled-up personal printers, but here is where Xerox’s 50-year origin in business copiers pays off and leaves the other manufacturers behind. For heavy business needs, the free-standing Xerox WorkCentre 7665 is the mid-range of the 7600 series. It not only offers copy, scan, and facsimile features, but color printing that is faster and sharper than any Phaser 7000 model. Out the box the 7665 has a 3,260 sheet paper capacity, with the ability to upgrade to 5,260 sheets. Add the choice of several finishers and high-speed paper feeders, and the WorkCentre 7665 becomes an all-in-one publishing house.
Editor's Pros & Cons
PROS:
The first thing that grabs your attention on the WorkCentre 7665 is the prominently positioned blue control panel. The touchscreen User Interface (UI) gives easy access to popular functions, with additional menus for all of the WorkCentre’s features. A traditional 10-key fax pad is provided along with the buttons most users are used to using with copiers. The WorkCentre 7665 prints at speeds up to a blistering 25 two-sided pages per minute in color (and 50 ppm single-side prints), 65 single-sided pages per minute in black-and-white. Having one of the highest resolutions at 2,400 x 2,400, it gives you professional high-image quality and clarity. The polymerized toner helps enhances definition and sharpness, while giving photo-like glossiness to regular paper.
The duplexing Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) holds can handle the copying, scanning, and faxing of your 2-sided originals, be they in colour or in B&W. With a 250-sheet capacity, it handles about twice the amount of other multi-funcitions with ADFs. The base-model 7665 comes standard with Ethernet. 1GB of memory and an 80GB hard drive enables this WorkCentre to handle any size print request and to securely save jobs to the hard drive. USB is optional. Three optional Finishers can give the 7665 full publishing features including staple, multi-hole punch, Z, C, and V-folding and binding for catalogs and magazines. The fax portion of the 7665 has transmission speeds up to 33.5Kbs for a 4-second/page transmission rate. A maximum resolution of 600 x 600 dpi allows for images in sharp detail. Using the automatic document feeder, up to 250 pages can be scanned on both sides.To save on paper the 7665 comes with junk fax filtering, and incoming multi-page faxes can be printed on double-sided paper. For sensitive information, incoming faxes can be securely saved directly to memory, only being printed with the proper password. 32MB of memory is reserved for the 7665 to hold up to 200 password-protected mailboxes. Network options are available to allow for faxing from your computer station. Color copies up to 13” x 19” can be made directly on the glass platen, or using the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). The duplexing ability of the ADF allows for making copies from 2-sided originals without having to manually flip the papers. Zoom scales from 25% to 400% with a choice of 1% increments, automatic resizing, or in ten jumps. Up to 9,999 copies can be reproduced. Resolution and print speeds are spec’d at 2,400 x 2,400 dpi up to 65 ppm. You can choose if copies are to be collated or stacked into the offset catch tray. Scanned documents can be exported as 600 x 600 PDF files and sent to a network directory, e-mail, or on the internal 80GB hard drive. The 7665 is able to interface with 3rd party peripherals such as magnetic strip readers (for ID cards) and coin machines, to expand its functions beyond the workplace to universities and self-serve copy stores.
CONS: In spite of Xerox’s claims, you don’t want to just plop anybody in front of this unit without some training. As a support engineer, I found the most downtime for machines of this size comes when untrained people start “using” them. Since most buyers of WorkCentres will want to establish passwords and user accounts for auditing and security, the end-user will need to be taught the basics (like what their password is). With a 1-hour training and “lab”, I‘ve been able to get the most technophobic people productive on these office machines. Here’s where an hour of prevention is worth days of non-productivity.
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INK/TONER NEEDS:
The WorkCentre 7665 uses Xerox’s Emulsion Aggregate toner, a resin-like ink for sharper imaging and less color bleeding. Prints that use polymerized toners like EA tend to have a nice glossy look and a waxy feel to them.
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