Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer

Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer
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.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Xerox Phaser 6250N color laser printer offers powerful printing with lots of options for expandability. Featuring up to 26 ppm printing in both black and color, the 6250N offers photo, enhanced 2,400 dpi, and draft 600 dpi modes. Driven by a powerful 700 MHz PowerPC processor and 256 MB memory standard (expandable to 512 MB), the unit requires less than 12 seconds for first page out and can keep up with even large print jobs.

The Phaser 6250N offers versatile connectivity--USB 2.0, parallel, and 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet--and paper handling, with room to grow. Standard are a 500-sheet tray and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray. These can be expanded to include duplexing and a hefty input capacity of up to 2,100 sheets. The Xerox Phaser 6250N is backed by a one-year on-site warranty.

What's in the Box
Xerox Phaser 6250N, power cable, paper trays, paper guides, transfer roller, fuser, imaging unit, set of toner cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet module, driver CD-ROM, user guide, quick reference, warranty information

Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer

Average customer rating:

Start up paper jam is annoying
Good printer, attractive design, flawed paper-handling system
Flawed.
output great, paper handling terrible...
Horrible

Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer

Manufacturer: Xerox
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Accessories:

Acoustic Research Spikemaster SM-BG8 8 Outlet Block, Standard Protection Surge Protector (White)
Netgear FWG114P 802.11g Wireless Firewall with USB Print Server
Netgear USB Mini Print Server (PS121)
APC BE350U 350VA Back-ups Es
Office Depot(R) Extra Bright Multipurpose Paper, 8 1/2 x 11, 20 Lb., 104 Brightness

Product Features:

Up to 26 ppm print speed for black and color
Photo, 2,400 dpi enhanced, and 600 dpi draft modes
700 MHz PowerPC processor, 256 MB standard memory
USB 2.0, parallel, and 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet network connectivity
PC compatible; 1-year on-site warranty

ASIN: B0000CNZ9F

Amazon.com Product Description

The Xerox Phaser 6250N color laser printer offers powerful printing with lots of options for expandability. Featuring up to 26 ppm printing in both black and color, the 6250N offers photo, enhanced 2,400 dpi, and draft 600 dpi modes. Driven by a powerful 700 MHz PowerPC processor and 256 MB memory standard (expandable to 512 MB), the unit requires less than 12 seconds for first page out and can keep up with even large print jobs.

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:

Start up paper jam is annoying.......2007-01-24

I've owned a 6250DP for about a year. As mentioned in other reviews, when the printer comes out of power-saving mode, it often jams on the first printed page. I am currently experimenting with different kinds of paper to see if I can work around this problem. I do worry that with the number of times I've had to open this printer to take out a jammed page I will wear out the front latch.

The print quality is fine, and the cartridges last a surprisingly long time.

Good printer, attractive design, flawed paper-handling system.......2006-06-19

This printer is much more attractive than the hideously blocky or overly bulky HP printers. But thats not why you buy a printer. I've used mine for about 1.5 years now and the print quality is great for documents, graphic arts, and some simple cards, cd-labels, business cards. Its not a photo printer - no laser is to date - specialty inkjet is still the way to go there.

The achilles heal of this printer is the paper handling. The engineering design cut a corner somewhere when they went from the 6200 to the 6250 that impacts the paper feed path. If you use the cheapest copier paper, the thin stuff, there are no issues... though that could just be coincidence. The problem appears to be a motor that is part of the printer, that drives the registration rollers... to replace that part, the entire printer must be disassembled (ie its not a standard replacement part). When comming out of warmup, that motor cannot get the final transfer roll (on the front pivoting door) moving. Either the motor is cheaper (has a dead spot without enough torque) or the gearing has such a spot, or the rollers have issues, but the combination of parts results in that last roller not getting moving when it should - it just sticks. The result, when the sheet gets there it jams. The tech, who was out twice to work the problem over 7 months, indicated it was an issue he has seen a lot with the 6250, but not the 6200. THe two are practically identical printers, design and mechanically.

If the paper handling were not a concern (maybe it only happens if the room is cold - as my instances of problems occur in January-March), then I'd almost give this a 5 star rating - but the annoyance of getting paper jams so often, when there is a problem, are a HUGE issue for a $2000 printer.

I have the N version - network - which is great. I picked up the expanded paper tray - so with 3 full trays you have plenty of paper options (legal, + letter, + heavy-letter). If I needed the hard drive, dropping it in would be easy - but you only need that for coallating. The coallating happens on the printer - so your computer can send the job and get back to do what you need it to do (rather than having to repeatedly send specific pages to the printer). As the Mac guy said, you could do collation on the computer with software - but thats what the low-end sub$1000 printers do and not why one buys this class of printers.

To the startup-page guy - don't turn off the printer. If you power it up, it gives you a page of status - thats what they do. Set the powersave mode to the right level and leave the printer on - it goes to powersave mode when not used - and is not drawing much power. THes are printers not designed to be turned on when you need them.

Too bad Xerox hosed up the paper handling. All that to save a few bucks - or because of a HUGE screwup in testing or design. Someone dropped the ball and it will take Xerox a long time to recover the reputation from this screw up!

Flawed........2005-05-26

I bought this as a "workgroup" printer for work - i.e. it prints about 750 pages per day, every day. Many problems.

1) Reliability. First few months, works fine - no paper jams. But after a few months, the paper handling mechanisms wear out, and are UNREPAIRABLE. "Registration Roller" jams become more and more frequent, and are a pain to clear. Xerox denies that this type of jam is even possible. They sent me a brand new replacement printer.

The new printer is having the SAME EXACT PROBLEMS. Xerox (to their credit) sent techs out 9 times, and promptly, and they replaced every part which COULD be replaced, but the Registration Roller jams continued. Xerox seemed stumped. My only guess is that they didn't TEST this printer for longevity.

2) Print quality is mediocre at best. Text looks awful - different colors bleeding outside each letter, unless you print in "Greyscale" mode, which sort of defeates the purpose of a color printer. Photographs print OK for a laser printer - there's some banding, but I've never seen photos printed from OTHER laser printers, to compare it to.

3) As another reviewer mentioned, it does indeed "not print" sometimes. I have it connected via Ethernet. Often, the print job just never gets through, and the computer displays "communication error".

To be fair, here are some pros:

-Very fast. So fast, in fact, I get paper cuts if other people are printing!

-Very quiet, for a color laser. The toners don't move, which helps.

-Loading toner is easy, and can be done in literally 8 seconds.

-Web-management tools and built-in email server (to send status emails) are useful.

This printer I think is fine for small-quantity printing (maybe 100 sheets per day), but I'd avoid it like the plague for workgroups or mission-critical uses.

-KM

output great, paper handling terrible..........2005-05-16

Pro: this printer is fast, fairly quiet and has GREAT quality output. Colors are rich and solid, text is clear and crisp even at 6 pt on textured paper. Photos are so so, but this isn't supposed to be a photo printer.

Con: Paper curls BIG TIME, even with the front load bypass tray, the appropriate software settings and laser paper!!! If you're using anything higher than regular 20#, forget it. 24# paper, card stock, cover stock, labels, business cards, presentation paper, photo quality or heavy matte paper, etc. come out with a VERY bad curl that does not press out, even after being left under heavy weights overnight...and who's got time for that in a production envionment?

Bottom line: if you need color and clear text in documents printed exclusively on regluar weight paper in a single or networked environment, this printer is the best I've seen. If you print on ANYTHING besides standard paper, you will be VERY disappointed with the results.

Horrible.......2005-04-13

As a side note, I would like to express my extreme disappointment in the Phaser 6250. Problems are almost continuous with this printer and hardly a week goes by that a toner cartridge, transfer roller, imagining unit or fuser doesn't need to be replaced. Xerox's advertising on this product is close to or is false. The rated printing speed is "up to 26ppm". While technically correct, Xerox fails to mention that if you are printing more than 26 pages, printing speed is likely to be considerably slower as you wait for a cleaning cycle to complete. The printer's driver for Mac OS X does NOT support collation, something that is unfathomable. When inquiring to Xerox why it did not collate I was told the printer needed a hard drive to accomplish this, which is simply a lie. If Xerox has engineered the printer to require a hard drive for collation, this is an engineer flaw as a result of either laziness or management's request so as to increase profits by selling more accessories. Even worse is that red toner leaks into the printer itself. The build-up eventually resulted in a red hue on the right margin of all color pages printed. Xerox's response to what is clearly a manufacturing defect was that I should try and clean out the inside of the printer as best as possible. I can not imagine how Xerox expects to retain customers if the Phaser 6250 is indicative of the quality of Xerox's other products. In summary this printer prints in color, but lacks all the benfits of a laser, speed and reliability.

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