Xerox Phaser 7300/DN Network Color Laser Printer with Duplexer

• 2400 optimized dpi color, 2400 dpi black
• Up to 30 ppm color, 37 ppm black; accepts 12-by-18-inch paper
• 500 MHz processor, 192 MB RAM, expandable to 512 MB
• Heavy duty cycle, up to 83,000 pages per month; automatic 2-sided printing
• Parallel, USB, and Ethernet interfaces; PC and Mac compatible

I purchased this printer new from Xerox seven years ago in 2005. I print everything from single sheets to several thousand pages at a time for my consulting practice, mostly printing business graphics such as process maps. I also produce a tabloid-sized newspaper for a non-profit organization where I am a director.

This printer has never had a breakdown, it prints quickly, and I get consistent compliments about the color and quality of prints.

I also have a second, Xerox solid ink printer for letter-size prints only. While I think the solid ink printer provides slightly better image quality, the solid ink supplies are much, much more expensive. I can go through $300 worth of ink supplies on the solid ink printer in a weekend for one good sized job. It takes me a couple of years to spend that much on ink supplies for this printer, and I use only Xerox authentic toner cartridges purchased new. They seem to last forever. People are very impressed by tabloid-sized color prints, and this printer has allowed me to create them very economically.

While this 7300DN printer is a bit noisy, I like that I can turn it on when I need it and then turn it off again. When it is sitting idle, it does not use power or ink like the solid ink printer does.

A cool feature of this printer is that all operating parts are designed to be replaced after a lengthy service period and are easily replaceable. As a result, the longevity of the printer is renewable by design. As long as Xerox keeps manufacturing supplies and parts, I think it will go on and on.

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Never in my life have I ever experienced a printer such as this, but then maybe I haven''t been around enough printers. This thing couldn''t print "Hello World" without it skipping, jamming, smearing, not fusing, hesitating, whathaveyou. Granted, when this printer does work, it does give out excellent color but this is roughly 10% of the time. The rest of the 90% is trying to get the printer to actually print something. I now have a new fuser and all new toner cards in this printer and it still jams about ever 50 pages. Also once something goes low, all of this is multiplied by 10. That is, successful printing goes down drastically and most of the time or you either reseting the printer or just buying replacement items for the printer. When the fuser goes below 40%, best just to get a new fuser which is literally a ripoff! These fusers are supposed to get 70,000 pages, but in reality they get about 45,000, just a little over half. And nothing is cheap when it comes to these babies. Every item is between $170 to $200 dollars and includes the toner by the way. (well if you get high capacity, but why get anything else?) Bottom line, unless you are printer mechanic by trade and are Xerox Phaser certified, there is absolutely no reason to buy this Phaser, period! I cannot stress this point enough. Do not buy this unless you are know what you are getting into with it. You will be incredibly frustrated by it.

Oh by the way, in typing this, I have cleared 5 jams already, and I type fast too. :(

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I purchased one of these printers brand new some years ago. It has been a flawless performer. The only trouble I had is when I tried some generic toner refills; as long as I use genuine Xerox refills it works great. Printing speed is fast. Registration is so good that I have printed business cards that are indistinguishable from offset printed ones.

We use it for all high volume and high quality printing purposes, from including brochures and full color postcards.

Setup was a breeze. I plugged in the power cord and the Cat-5 cable, and after a few minutes of whirring and clicking, it told me what my network was, what it registered itself as, and was in all respects ready to print. Quite a change from the HP 8500DN it replaced.

I give 4 stars instead of 5 because:

(1) Toner cartridges are expensive. They will last a long time, as long as you recognize that this is a workgroup printer. By that I mean it uses up some toner in "overhead" every time it powers up, so it''s not something you fire off one sheet to every now and then like an inkjet. But when I want to crank out 10 sets of handouts for a presentation my 7300 is a champ.

(2) I get grey ghosting on what should be whitespace, when printing on shiny enamel papers. I''m told this is an outgrowth of exposing the transfer unit to light, and this is consistent with my experience as I''ve replaced transfer units over the years. Apparently light exposure, even though I''m careful to avoid it, leads to a slight static charge which on glossy paper puts a slight grey shadow on the paper. It''s not a serious problem; someone who''s not a professional printer probably wouldn''t notice it.

In summary, it does everything I expect it to, and more, and if I had it to do over I would buy one again.