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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles

Xerox Phaser 7760DN

Xerox Phaser 7760DX

Xerox 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 image 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

complex 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

Ethernet 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:

lThe 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.

lThe 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).

lThe 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.

While this is not the widest range 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 for maintaining color calibration and color match-

ing with this printer family. 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 page printed on an offset press or other

output device on a range of paper types from newsprint

to high-gloss. 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 matching.

The 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 page

Black-and-whitecost per page

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

Yellowtoner $324.99 25,000 $ 0.013 N/A

Imaging unit/4-color $329.99 35,000 $ 0.009 $ 0.009

Waste 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