J. A. Henckels 5100CN Advantages, More informative front panel interface, Better ease of use

Phaser® 6300

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Competitive Comparison

Xerox Phaser® 6300 Ease of Use

Advantages

More informative front panel interface

•The Phaser 6300’s 6-line display is large enough to give visual instructions and animations on how to perform tasks as well as has an intuitive and robust menu structure for making changes to the printer settings. The Phaser 6300 shows users graphical animation on how to replace consumables or load trays – all at the front panel!

•The Dell unit has only a 2-line display with no visual animations and a limited and unintuitive menu layout.

Better ease of use

•The Phaser 6300 printer's consumables are easy to find due to its convenient transparent cover and front panel graphics.

•Paper trays are also easy to reach and allow paper type and size to be easily set with an automatic prompt for paper settings.

•The Phaser 6300 has a configurable multi-purpose tray that can be adjusted to automatically be the paper source when media is inserted into it, or left at the default to feed media of a user-defined type and size.

•The Dell 5100cn looks like a Dell computer, but its looks make it harder to use.

•Toner compartment is not labeled and is opaque so users must guess where it is located.

•Paper tray is tucked under the device, so it can be hard to reach.

•There are no labels on the outside of the printer, so users must guess at what a button or level does.

•Directions to clear paper jams are in difficult-to-read places.

•Multipurpose tray is not configurable

More intelligent features, drivers, and support

Phaser 6300	Dell 5100cn
Driver design is intuitive and easy to navigate.	Driver design can be confusing and unintuitive.
Intelligent driver complete with smart trays, consumables gauges,	The Dell driver has no bi-directional or real-time functionality and thus
and mimics. Plus, the Phaser driver automatically picks up the correct	cannot show tray or consumable status.
paper size from Microsoft applications.
CentreWare® IS embedded web server is robust, has an intuitive visual	Dell’s embedded web server does not have all the features and ease
design, and is fully featured.	of CentreWare IS.
• Job Accounting not only shows the types and numbers of	• Job Accounting is very basic and does not show the
documents printed and by whom, but also the impact each	consumables impact of jobs.
document had on the consumables.
PrintingScout on screen alerts instantly tell the user if there is a problem	Dell Status Monitor has a simple task bar link to the printer’s
with their print job and provides graphical instructions on how to fix it.	embedded web page.
PhaserSMART online help provides an easy link to the Xerox Knowledge	Dell’s online knowledge base is sparsely populated without the depth
Base, which is fully populated, rich in content, and uses decision trees	of detail and ease of Xerox’s.
for simple navigation.
Email, phone, and onsite support are seasoned professionals with	Dell phone reps admit to having little training. Plus, their service is
excellent response time and service.	outsourced to companies that don’t specialize in printers.
CentreWare Web fleet management utility is able to manage not only	Dell offers no such software utility.
Xerox printers and multifunction devices, but competitive units as well.

Proven quality and performance

Over 20 years of printing experience is built into the Phaser 6300 – creating a printer that everyone loves to use. The 5100cn is Dell’s first color laser printer…and it shows.

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