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Ugh...Phasers SUCK. I worked at an advertising company, and here's what Xerox (and everyone else) doesn't tell you.
They use a HALOGEN LAMP and various heaters to keep the ENTIRE DRUM, THE INK RESERVES, AND PRINT HEAD AT OVER 200 DEGREES. Which makes it a space heater and sucks shitloads of power. If it goes into standby, you're not getting shit out of it for a good 5 minutes. Shut it down for the night? Haha, enjoy waiting 15 minutes. On the plus side, once warmed up, it can be pretty fast since it is one pass- they make a HP 4500 look like a snail (one it's going.)
Want to move it around? Too bad, because it's full of hot wax, and if moved while the wax is melted, it'll fuck up the entire machine something fierce (as in, disassembly by trained tech. And with a Xerox, if you don't have a support contract...hoooo boy, $$$.) You have to initiate a "special" shutdown which turns all the fans on to high mode to cool everything and re-solidify the wax, and the printer tells you when it's safe to move it.
The head clogs, requiring cleaning pages to be generated (where it basically just purges a shitload of melted wax through it onto the paper.)
Resolution is quite poor. Well under 300DPI. WELL under. Even text looks like hell. What do you expect from a machine which is basically squirting hot wax at a piece of paper?
The prints are fragile; you can scrape the wax right off the paper with your fingernail like it's candle wax. The wax transfers over time to stuff it's pressed against if it gets even slightly warm (ie, sunlight.) It also fades so badly that prints will be very washed out within 12 months or less.
The wax for older phaser printers is identical in composition to the wax for newer ones. Except...THEY SHAPE THE BARS OF WAX DIFFERENTLY FOR EACH MODEL!
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