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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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X
erox Phaser 7760DN
Xerox Phaser 7760DX
X
erox Phaser 7760GX
35ppm full color
45ppm black & white
Sum-up: A leader in quality laser color reproduction and a
fast ledger-size printer series to boot.
The new Phaser 7760 is a ledger-size color printer series
that is an upgrade to the Phaser 7750, a powerhouse that
can meet very demanding requirements. It is one of the
fastest office color printers, and can surpass most other
models for speed and image quality. The Phaser 7760
prints at 35ppm in color and 45ppm in black-and-white.
In addition, that speed is combined with excellent
quality.
Overview: The Phaser 7760 family has some nice fea-
tures. It supports printing of up to 12" x 18" paper sizes,
and it has excellent ima
ge quality, lots of memory, and
strong paper handling. The standard models have a Fuji
Xerox engine with a powerful 800MHz processor.
The Phaser 7760 has a standard 40GB hard drive in all
models. The hard drive supports electronic collation of
comple
x multipage documents. In addition, the Phaser
7760 models can accommodate up to 2,150 sheets of
paper capacity, though the different models come with
different standard paper capacities.
All three models have a generous 512MB
. This can be
expanded to 1GB with options. All come with USB and
E
thernet connectivity as standard features and support
PostScript 3. The machines print at 1,200dpi.
The Phaser 7760 also offers a feature that’s now com-
mon on upscale color printers — a Web-based printer
management program that allows you to check printer
status remotely using the browser on your computer. The
Xerox name for this software is CentreWare. Xerox also
touts something called Intelligent Ready software, which
can minimize printer warm-up time.
As with other Xerox products, this family has a one-
year warranty plus Xerox’s Total Satisfaction Guarantee.
There are three models in the Phaser 7760 family:
● The 7760DN is the base model (street price $6,299),
which comes with 650 sheets of input, a hard disk,
standard Ethernet, and standard automatic duplex.
● The 7760GX ($7,399), which has 2,150 sheets of stan-
dard input and adds Xerox’s PhaserMatch color-
matching software standard (available as an option for
the 7760DN).
● The 7760DX ($7,699), identical to the 7760GX,
but
with 3,150 sheets of standard input.
All of these units offer some standard Xerox color fea-
tures, including secure print, job pipelining and compres-
sion, and usage and analysis tools. PostScript 3 and PCL
5c are standard as well.
Output devices: These units all come standard with a
400-sheet offset catch tray. You can also add a 3,500-
sheet-capacity finisher that offers multiposition stapling
of up to 50 sheets and 3-hole punch, or a 2,500-sheet
capacity booklet maker with stapling and 3-hole punch.
W
hile this is not the widest r
ange of output options in the
color printer market, it’s not too bad.
These printers are rated for 150,000 pages per month,
meaning they are designed to be serious workhorses.
Image quality: Xerox provides an impressive array of
tools f
or maintaining color calibr
a
tion and color ma
tc
h-
ing with this printer f
amil
y
. These include such items as
Pantone certification, sRGB color matching, ICC profil-
ing, and their own TekColor Dynamic Color Correction.
The aforementioned PhaserMatch software allows you to
create color proofs that match as closely as possible the
look of
the same pa
g
e printed on an of
fset press or other
output de
vice on a range of paper types from newsprint
to high-g
loss. These capabilities are not very useful for
the typical office user, but they answer a major require-
ment for the design/graphic arts group that needs precise
color ma
tc
hing
.
T
he printer also allows you to print in photographic
mode and produces photo-like quality (though you sacri-
Xerox Phaser 7760
Consumables costs at-a-glance
Price
Yield
Full-color cost per pa
g
e
Blac
k-and-white cost per pa
g
e
Black toner $129.99 32,000 $ 0.004 $ 0.004
Cyan toner $324.99 25,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Magenta toner $324.99 25,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Y
ello
w toner
$324.99 25,000 $ 0.013 N/A
Imaging unit/4-color $329.99 35,000 $ 0.009 $ 0.009
W
aste toner box
$19.99 27,000 $ 0.001 $ 0.001
Fuser kit $199.99 100,000 $ 0.002 $ 0.002
TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS
$ 0.0552 $ 0.0142
5.52 1.42