Phaser 6120 Color Prntr 6PPM 20PPM/B&W 200-SH Tray E-net Pcl

Average customer rating: 4.0

Great printer at reasonable price
Color is nice, but this printer has room for improvement
XEROX 6120 Fine Printer: costly consumables
ghost in machine type of random noises poor printing of heavy stock paper
Great inkjet replacement

Phaser 6120 Color Prntr 6PPM 20PPM/B&W 200-SH Tray E-net Pcl

Manufacturer: Tektronix
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000BW0RPK

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Product Description

Fill your office with brilliant color! The Xerox Phaser 6120N laser printer offers legendary Phaser color, outstanding media flexibility and a smart, compact design. Plus, it's so easy to install and use, it's the bright spot in any small office.

Customer Reviews:

Great printer at reasonable price.......2007-03-26

I purchased the Xerox 6120 to replace a Brother mono laser printer and older HP color inkjet printer. The inkjet was used rarely and the cartridges were always running out. The setup was quick and easy. I an using the Lan connection and that was very easy to setup as well. I was printing within 1/2 hour or unpacking. Color and black is very crisp. Also installed on my wife's Imac via wireless networks, and no issues there. The only compliant I have is it is a little noisy, especially with the 4 pass printing for color. Other than that I am very happy with the printer.

Color is nice, but this printer has room for improvement.......2007-03-10

I purchased this printer to use in our home office. My wife and I both work from home and we are served extremely well by our HP 4050 laser printer. It is wonderful in every way, except that it is not color! Color is nice to have for printing photos, brochure mock-ups, etc. We don't need color often enough to keep the ink cartridges in an inkjet from drying up (and wasting $35 a whack) so I gave this disposably priced printer a try.

At first I moved treekiller (our HP) into the server room (guest room closet) and we tried using this printer as our "primary" office printer. I set up our computers with color and B&W printer settings so we could easily select how we wanted to print (B&W printing is faster) and we used it for a couple weeks. Then we switched back to treekiller and put this printer in the closet, to use on those occasions when we really need color.

The biggest thing we disliked about this printer is speed. We're spoiled by the ability to see something on screen, click print, and have it in our hands in a few seconds. Google maps, web pages, emails, recipes, etc. This printer, even in B&W mode is just plain slow. The time it takes to "warm up" before each print job is highly annoying.

The print quality is fairly decent for photos, but text tends to be much heavier (wider lines, darker characters) than most other laser printers. I find that makes text harder to read, especially when printing out something like a P&L or Balance Sheet. So we use it a lot less than we hoped. We leave it off 99% of the time.

Envelope printing is abysmal. It crinkles the envelopes (std. #10) so any increase in aesthetics you gained from printing in color is lost by the wrinkles it adds to the envelopes. After wasting a dozen envelopes trying to get the printer drivers alignment corrected to put the address in the right spot, I gave up and banished it to the closet.

When we want to print something in color, we start the print job and walk into the other room and flip it on.

XEROX 6120 Fine Printer: costly consumables.......2007-01-26

I love this printer. It produces fine posters and above average photos for the price. The manual is very clear and set up is a snap.

The four supplied toner cartridges are easy to change (lasting 1500 sheets) BUT the cost of the replacement toner cartridges is high. It is cheaper to buy a new 6120 printer which comes with four cartridges. Not an environmentally friendly option.

This product loses one star in my rating for making it a best value only when used as a disposable single-use printer.

ghost in machine type of random noises poor printing of heavy stock paper.......2007-01-12

Good price for printing on normal paper but found that it jams on almost EVERY single heavy stock paper, for example, lots of trouble printing my business cards. Machine randomly rolls the ink cartridges and spooks people who aren't expecting it!! My old HP color laserjet 4550 was a better quality machine: rarely jammed, easy to get to paper routes when it did jam-- cons: most expensive inks, replacement inks in the market... damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Great inkjet replacement.......2006-11-28

After monochrome laserprinters replaced their printing predecessors, color inkjets rose to prominence for those interested in color printing. I find inkjets annoying because I simply don't print often enough to keep the jets clear. I use my laser printer for most printing, and when I turn to the inkjet for a color print, one or another color is inevitably clogged. Luckily, the price of color lasers has taken a nosedive, and I bought a new Phaser 6120 for $199. The economics alone are fascinating, since the printer comes with 4 ink cartridges (black and 3 colors) that on their own sell for significantly more than the cost of the printer. What that means is that when I run out of toner, I'll buy another printer and donate this one to a local charity.

Setup was quick and straightforward, but the printer weighs just over 50 pounds so you may need a hand getting it out of the box. Don't expect to place it on your desk. This is a good sized unit and depending on your setup, may require a separate printer stand. Toner cartridges are already installed, so you simply need to remove a few plastic spacers and some tape, plug in a USB/parallel/ethernet cable, and you're good to go. I'm using it with a Mac under OS X. Software installation took just a minute. Manuals are in pdf form on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Printing uses plenty of power with the 11-amp segment of my ammeter lighting up from time to time but after 15 minutes, the energy saver kicks in and the current draw drops considerably. I wouldn't mind if that timespan could be reduced further, but 15 minutes is the lowest permissible with the provided firmware. Printing speed is quite reasonable; it's slower than its more expensive brethren, but if you're buying this unit, it's not because you need high speed color printing. Standard text output in multiple colors is just a little slower than with a comparably priced monochrome printer. The noise level is a little high, what with all the mechanical clattering taking place within, but that goes away when the printing is complete. Even the fan shuts down when the energy saver kicks in.

Actual printed copy is quite nice. I wouldn't use this for photos routinely (I have a Kodak 1400 for those), but it does a reasonable job for sharing purposes. The real joy of this printer is the speed and quality of output for color letterhead, charts & graphs, and material from the net (e.g. maps, etc.). For standard black text, I compared the output to that of my HP 1320. It was difficult to tell any difference...there may be just a few more jaggies on the 6120 (that is, resolution may be slightly better with the 1320), but there's nothing that anyone would notice when reading a letter or perusing a print. Compared to a like-priced inkjet, there's no comparison. This is a laser printer, and the output is as clean and pristine as you'd expect.

This is a mechanically complex device (with a one year warranty) compared to an inkjet printer. There's no question in my mind that with heavy use, something will eventually break. But in all likelihood, that will take at least 1500-3000 pages to happen (about the duration of the toner cartridges), and as I said, at that point, I'll move on to the next printer.

2/8/07 addendum: Printing multiple identical color pages is very slow, just two pages a minute or so. Also, as it turned out, the first printer we got failed with an Error 14 within a few weeks. It was replaced by a second printer. This printer, too, unless left on, requires multiple cycles to get through a repeating Error 14 message. Looks like we'll get our toner cartridges used up, but will upgrade printers once that happens.

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