Lexmark 720 Oki Data C9000 Supplies and Accessories, Supplies List Price, Accessories List Price

		2135, with an estimated yield of 7,500 pages, are
Oki Data C9000: Supplies and Accessories		available for $189. Standard capacity black cartridges,
Supplies	List Price	which also yield 7,500 pages, are available for $69.F
Color Toner (cyan, magenta, or yellow)	$119	On February 28, 2001, Xerox Corporation
Black Toner (15,000 pages)
(15,000 pages)	$275 each	(Stamford, CT) introduced the DocuColor 12 Laser
Imaging Drum, Black (39,000 pages)	$150	Printer, a printer-only version of its DocuColor 12 copier/
Imaging Drum (cyan, magenta, or yellow)		printer, first introduced in August 1999 (see Color
(39,000 pages)	$199 each	Business Report, September 1999). Like the DocuColor
Fuser (60,000 pages)	$150	12, the DocuColor 12 Laser Printer can print 12.5 ppm
Transfer Belt (50,000 pages)	$225	in color and 50 ppm in monochrome, and can
Accessories	List Price	accommodate paper sizes up to 12.6" by 18". However,
Auto-Duplex Unit	$425	the printer-only version of the DocuColor 12 carries a
Internal Hard Disk (5 GB)	$595	significantly lower list price of $18,995, compared to
Second and Third 550-sheet		the copier/printerís $31,495 price tag. This lower cost
Paper Tray Mechanism	$495	may give it a broader appeal, especially in graphics
High-capacity Feeder (1,650 sheets)	$1,299	shops that donít need copy functionality. ìWe found that
Internal Ethernet Print Server Card	$699	with the DocuColor 12, a lot of our graphic arts
64 MB Memory Expansion DIMM	$545	customers didnít really need the copy function,î said
128 MB Memory Expansion DIMM	$990	Jon Renault, Product Manager at Xerox. ìTheir
256 MB Memory Expansion DIMM	$1,664	workflows were digital, for the most part, so we
		developed the DocuColor 12 LP.î
Source: Oki Data Americas, Inc.		Given that the DocuColor 12 Laser Printer is not a
		copier, one would expect it to be sold through distribution
C9000 series printers will be available in April 2001.
		by Xeroxís Office Printing Business Unit; however, the
Four different configurations will be offered, ranging in		unit will be sold through Xeroxís direct sales force
list price from $5,999 for the C9200 base model to $9,599		instead. ìWe want to leverage the training we have
for the top-of-the-line C9400dxn.F		invested in our salespeople,î said John Renault. ìAlso,
On March 20, 2001, Xerox Corporationís Office		the distribution channel for the OPB is attracted to a
		certain price point, in the $10,000 range. Although they
Printing Business Unit (Wilsonville, OR) introduced the		do carry some graphics products, their focus is
Phaser 2135, a color LED printer capable of printing		networked office printers. In our sales force, we have
on 12" by 18" paper. Designed for office and graphic arts		color specialists with specialized knowledge that will
users, the Phaser 2135 is Xeroxís version of the Oki Data		give them an edge when selling to the higher-end
C9000 single-pass color printer. Like the Oki, the Phaser		graphics market.î
2135 prints 21 ppm in color and 26 ppm in monochrome,		Initially, the DocuColor 12 Laser Printer will driven
and print resolution is 600- by 1200-dpi. Designed to		by EFI external controllers: the Fiery X12, available
support high-volume printing, the printer has a rated		for a list price of $8,995, or the Fiery XP12, available
duty cycle of 83,000 pages per month. Xerox has given		for $19,500. Future controller options will include the
the Phaser 2135 a fair amount of processing muscleó		Imation Matchprint Professional Server, and Splash G-
its 500-MHz Pentium processor and 128 MB of RAM		series controllers. The DocuColor 12 Laser Printer will
give it a first-page-out time of 17 seconds in color and		be available in April 2001.F
13 seconds in monochrome. Network connectivity via
10/100Base-T Ethernet is standard, even on the Phaser		On March 20, 2001, Xerox Corporationís Office
2135N base model.		Printing Business Unit (Wilsonville, OR) introduced the
Standard paper inputs on the Phaser 2135 include		DocuColor 2006, a version of the Phaser 790 with
a 550-sheet paper tray and a 100-sheet manual feed.		copying functionality. Like the Phaser 790, the
The Phaser 2135N is available for a retail price of		DocuColor 2006 can print 6 ppm in color and 26 ppm in
$5,999. The Phaser 2135DT, which includes a second		monochrome, and can accommodate paper as large as
550-sheet paper tray, 192 MB of RAM, a 5 GB internal		13" by 18". The DocuColor 2006, which gets its copy
hard disk, and an automatic duplexing unit, is available		functionality from a Fuji Xerox 600-dpi flatbed scanner,
for $7,299. The Phaser 2135DX includes all the features		is driven by an embedded EFI x2e controller with a 266-
of the DT model, but also includes a 1,650-sheet paper		MHz processor and ships with 64 MB of RAM
tray and 256 MB of RAM. It is available for $8,399.		(expandable to 512 MB). The DocuColor 2006 also
Standard-capacity color toner cartridges for the Phaser		(continued on page 8)
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