Xerox 9201, 9202 Color Costs, Typical office document color distribution, Evaluating Workgroup

Section 1: Evaluating Workgroup

Color Multifunction Printers

Color Costs

Most common office documents viewed on a computer screen contain color—

so why shouldn’t there be color when those documents are transferred onto paper?

Typical office document color distribution

Office color documents can be classified by the amount of color used. According to Xerox research, the following is a breakdown of color documents in a typical office environment*:

10%
Useful
Color
25%	65%
Expressive	Everyday
Color	Color

Useful

Color

Everyday

Color

Expressive

Color

How the ColorQube™ 9201/9202/9203 breaks through the cost-of-color barrier:

The ColorQube 9200 series breaks through the color page price barrier. Only Xerox can deliver on the promise of affordable color for every document, every day, because only Xerox has the patented solid ink technology to make it practical. Now you can lower the cost of color printing for approximately

75 percent of your color pages.

Most cost-per-copy plans consist of one billing rate for black-and-white pages and one rate for color pages. This may be good for full coverage or black-only documents, but this fails to take into account the range of color documents that customers actually print.

With the ColorQube 9200 series, unique metered price plans are based on the actual color used on the page. No more paying expensive full-color page prices for small amounts of color. Pages with useful amounts of color are billed at the same rate as black-and-white pages. The more color pages you print, the more you save. On most color pages, the price

will drop significantly.

The ColorQube 9200 series creates images by printing tiny spots (called pixels) of black and color on the page. The MFP automatically counts how many color pixels are used to produce each printed page. Individual pages are tallied on three separate meters in the machine based on how many color pixels are on a particular page.

The only factor that determines which meter is incremented by a given printed page is the number of color pixels used in printing that page. Therefore, you only pay for the amount of color used on each page, independent of paper size and independent of the print quality mode a user has selected.

*This distribution may vary by customer location and does not include black-only pages.

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