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Xerox Phaser 3120 Reviews

The Xerox Phaser 3120 is a typical, vanilla design laser printer box that better suits the back office. Touted as a personal or small work-group laser, this machine doesn’t boast of cutting edge features. There is only one button on the printer and two indicators for indi-cating paper jam and online/offline. The Phaser 3120 connects to a PC via either USB or parallel inter-face; you have to opt (pay extra) for the network interface. The printer comes with a standard
250-sheet input paper tray and a 150-sheet output tray. An optional paper tray is available to augment the paper capac-ity by another 250 sheets—good enough for a small work group. The manual feed-er has a capacity of 50 sheets, and that’s much better than the sheet feeders most lasers have today. Installation was a breeze; the toner cartridge slides down in position with-out any problems. Driver installation took five minutes; the driver interface is nothing fancy—simple to understand and functional. Auto duplexing doesn’t make it to this printer, but a man-ual option exists. Xerox claims a 22 PPM speed; we got around 18 PPM, which isn’t that bad. The first page takes around 11 seconds to print and that’s what most laser printers in this class deliver. Our combi-document took 22 seconds to print, which isn’t quite up to the mark. In contrast, the photo-target image took 23 seconds to complete despite its complexity. Of course, the combi-document is 35 MB in size and any heavy file will take longer to print on this printer. Prints lack vibrancy and look dull, and the problem seems to be a low density of toner being deposited on the paper. Thus, some banding occured in the greyscale test. The toner cartridge is rated to deliver 3500 pages and costs Rs 6,400, giving us an indicative cost per page of Rs 1.83—expensive. Xerox does provide an option to upgrade to a higher yield cartridge rated to deliver 5000 pages. The Xerox Phaser 3120 has an MRP of Rs 17,000—expensive; we suggest you skip this printer.
Specifications:
22 PPM, 166 MHz processor, buffer memory 32 MB upgradeable to 144 MB, 600 dpi
resolution, USB & parallel interface and 250 sheets output tray...

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