Happy with my choice
Written: Apr 11 '01
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Pros: Quiet, quality, memory easily upgraded
Cons: If the paper feeder is low it will feed several pages at once.
The Bottom Line: Recommend it if you want 600 dpi quality and the ability to easily upgrade the memory if required.
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| hazza's Full Review: Xerox DocuPrintâ„¢ P8EX Laser Printer |
This printer is used in my home office to print out invoices and flyers. I went looking for a laser printer and was limited to a choice of two, a Canon LP800 and this one.
I choose the Xerox due to it coming with 4M of memory standard and the ability to upgrade the memory with standard 72 pin SIMM. Mine now has 12M courtesy of an old pentium laying around. The Canon has 500K of memory and no ability to upgrade.
The text is crisp and clear and the graphics are good. Although I didn't try graphics before the memory upgrade. The grey scale is fine for everything that I need it to do.
The memory upgrade is a simple process and well documented in the manual. Simply unscrew two screws on the I/O card, slide out the card, clip in the memory, slide the card back in and replace the two screws.
I have the printer connected to my workstation at this time via a parallel cable (the store didn't have a USB cable), in the future I plan to connect it to my linux server and share it via SAMBA.
It is a quiet little printer that goes into power save mode that makes it even quieter (my PC is louder when it does). It uses less desk space than my old bubblejet due to it having the output tray on top of the printer, the bubblejet needed space in front of it for the exiting paper.
The only problems I have had with the printer is the paper feeding. If there isn't much paper left in the feeder it tends to pick up 2-4 pages at a time. To workaround this I keep the feeder rather full and it hasn't happened again. I have had no jams inside the printer even when it grabbed 6 pages. My Canon-265 was the opposite, it would pick up several pieces of paper if the feeder was full.
Another feature I like is that when you print with the manual feed as the paper source it will accept the print job and then flash the orange light waiting for you to hit the go button, even if you have already placed the paper in the manual feeder.
It comes with the drivers and two utilities. One is the Remote Control panel which is used set Jam recovery, power save setting etc. The other utility is the status monitor which tells you if the printer is ready, standby mode etc.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): 300
Operating System: Windows
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