Xerox Phaser 6250/DP Network Color Laser Printer with Duplexer

Xerox Phaser 6250/DP Network Color Laser Printer with Duplexer
Manufacturer: Xerox
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Xerox invented laser printing and continues to build on that award-winning heritage. Xerox has the most experience with single pass printers in the industry. With a 700 MHz processor, the highest in the industry, the Phaser 6250 can handle even the most demanding offices and complex documents The Phaser 6250 combines the widest array of features specifically designed to simplify printing.

Average customer rating:

Worst Printer Ever
If I had to eat a turd, I guess I'd choose the one that stinks the least.
This is probably our last Xerox printer
Our favorite workgroup printer
Not reliable at all

Xerox Phaser 6250/DP Network Color Laser Printer with Duplexer

Manufacturer: Xerox
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

2,400 x 600 enhanced dpi, 600 x 600 dpi draft and Photo mode
Up to 26 ppm color, 26 ppm black
700 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM for complex documents
Convenient paper-saving 2-sided printing
USB 2.0, parallel, and Ethernet interface; PC and Mac compatible

ASIN: B0000CNZJJ

Product Description

Xerox invented laser printing and continues to build on that award-winning heritage. Xerox has the most experience with single pass printers in the industry. With a 700 MHz processor, the highest in the industry, the Phaser 6250 can handle even the most demanding offices and complex documents The Phaser 6250 combines the widest array of features specifically designed to simplify printing.

Customer Reviews:

Worst Printer Ever.......2007-05-24

This is the worst printer I've ever owned and will NEVER buy another Xerox. As a professional graphic designer, I've owned about 7 different printers. I've had this printer for almost 2 years and I have had more trouble with this Xerox than with all the others combined. It started from day one when the first page would jam on start up and the unit would emit a high decibel, high pitched squeal. Finally the reps sent a message to the printer telling it basically to send more juice to the engine on start up, but it still jams (and squeals) frequently. The fuser had to be replaced at just 20K pages (at a cost of $250). I get a jam every 6 or 7 pages now at the fuser and Xerox can't/won't help find the problem.

The color quality is poor and printing any color image results in "ghosting" all down the page. Paper handling is very poor and anything heavier than 20# gets permanently curled. I can't use any output from this printer for anything other than basic proofs - the quality just isn't acceptable for anything else.

I am now going back to my reliable HP and Lexmark models. I do not have time to deal with the problems that this unit has. I cannot believe how awful this printer is for a price of over $2k. I could have gotten the same problems with other machines and saved a ton! Save yourself the aspirin and buy anything else!

If I had to eat a turd, I guess I'd choose the one that stinks the least........2006-04-19

I support two Phaser 6250s, networked, in use by 75 users. I've amazingly never really had a problem with either of them.

With all the advances in computers, graphics, software, and hardware... why can't anyone make a printer that works, is easy to use, and won't need every part replaced after a year? And could someone please explain why EVERY printer requires it's own type of toner? Is the 6350 really that much different than the 6250? Why can't I just buy another reliable 6250 instead of chancing a 6350 and having to buy different toner?

My belief is that printer technology has not changed in over 20 years, the market is moved by who can create a new toner cartridge that won't fit in anyone else's printer.

This is probably our last Xerox printer.......2006-02-27

We used Tektronix Phaser printers in the '90s, and when we needed a replacement Postscript printer two years ago, we bought a Phaser 6250DP. It worked well for about six months and then we started having various minor problems. At ten months and about 23K pages, we had to get a service rep out to fix a failing imaging unit. They had our machine apart for two days and basically replaced every major assembly in the printer. After that it worked well for about two months. Now nine months later and out of warranty, the machine doesn't print 20 pages without a jam (especially at startup). I've concluded the Phaser brand really doesn't mean anything anymore. As soon as the carts in this beast are empty, we're looking for another machine, and it won't be from Xerox!

Our favorite workgroup printer.......2005-04-25

I work in an area with a team of about 20 engineers, and our group 6250DP has been flawless for almost two years now. It's a mixed environment of Windows and Mac OSX. We print about 5000 pages/month consisting of spot-color documentation, presentations, LOTS of vugraphs, and photographs.The average cost has been around 5 cents a page for consumables. Reliability: perfect. Installation: effortless. In fact, on my floor, there are now no less than eight of these machines, and again, no trouble. I have no idea why the other reviewers have had such difficulties. We do feed our printer only top-quality paper and Xerox transparency materials; I'm sure that helps a little in avoiding paper path troubles. The fundamental design is quite clever, especially compared with its HP competition. And here's my final opinion: After so many years suffering with inkjets at home, I just went out and bought a 6250DP for my wife, who's a technical illustrator. Installation with Mac OS9 and X was quick and easy, and the $600 rebate sure helped... Tip: if you visit the Xerox website and run the little flash animated printer tour, you can get another $50 rebate. Cool.

Not reliable at all.......2004-11-28

I've owned this printer for 4 months now and it's broken down twice. The first time when the fuser broke down Xerox provided excellent service and talked me into purchasing the extended warrantee. Now the imaging unit is malfunctioning when it's only 1/2 used up, and it is impossible to get a new one anywhere, under warrantee or not, as they are backordered from the manufacturer until mid January. So I'm stuck with pink dots all up and down the side of every page I print until then. This is ridiculous with an expensive machine like this not to be able to obtain a basic consumable part for months. When it's working this printer does produce nice quality, but it's a pain because every time you want to change to a different paper type or size you have to push buttons on the panel on the printer as well as selecting your choices in the driver. Also the duplexer does not work out of Photoshop, which is what I do all my printing out of. If I had this to do over again I'd go with an HP instead - my old HP color laser which cost 1/4 of what this thing did is much more reliable.

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