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Xerox

Xerox WorkCentre

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C2424 DN

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2005

Xerox WorkCentre

 

C2424 DP

 

Xerox WorkCentre C2424 DX

Up to 24ppm color/up to 24ppm black & white

Sum-up: Based on Xerox’s strong solid ink technology, these multi- functionals offer excellent color at a very moderate price.

The WorkCentre C2424 family is unique, the only MFPs based on a solid ink engine. That engine is the basis for the excellent color printers in the Xerox Phaser 8400 family. Solid ink machines have little to do with the more common, inexpensive thermal ink jet MFPs for the small- or home- office. Instead, solid ink is a printing technology that competes more with laser and LED machines.

Xerox’s solid ink technology offers what we consider excellent image quality. Even the default lower-res setting seems to produce pretty accurate color renderings, more than good enough for office use.

These machines offer very respectable speeds. The engines are rated for up to 24ppm, both in color and in black-and-white, in printing and in copying.

Numbers don’t tell the complete story here — 24ppm is achieved in the “fast” mode, whose resolution (at 300dpi) isn’t as high as what we’ve described above. The standard mode of 18ppm (at 300 x 450dpi) offers acceptable quality, however, and that’s still reasonably fast for a color printer. You can opt for even finer detail in the

enhanced resolution of 400 x 563dpi (12ppm) or photo mode at 525 x 600dpi (7ppm). These speeds are selected in the print dialog box for print jobs and on the front panel for copies.

These models come with a powerful 500MHz processor, ensuring that they will handle printed pages and copies with ease.

The WorkCentre C2424 multifunc- tionals are tightly integrated and easy to use. For example, when you have to change consumables, you need only open the top cover of the machine and slide in blocks of ink that look and feel like disk-shaped crayons. Set-up is simple, too, since the scanner unit is tightly integrated, requiring no assem- bly.

Xerox WorkCentre C2424 DX – This machine comes with extra software for file management.

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