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Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 solid ink color printers

The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 solid ink color printers designed to print as much as 85,000 pages per month at a rate of 30 pages per minute. These printers can support a max media capacity of 1675 pages, and can print with a resolution of 600 dpi by 600 dpi. For more information on the Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500, read the full article here.

Xerox 8560

Xerox 8560

The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 are solid ink color printers designed to meet them needs of medium sized offices. These printers boast monthly duty cycles of as much as 85,000 pages, making them more than capable of meeting the needs of busy offices. Despite their large monthly duty cycles, these printers are compact enough to fit into an office of any size without making you sacrifice on quality or speed.

For connectivity, the Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 need only high-speed USB cables as well as wired Ethernet connections. These printers are supported by Windows, Apple, Novell, Linux and UNIX based operating systems.

The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 utilize Xerox solid ink sticks for printing in both black and white and full color. These Xerox solid ink sticks provide more even and consistent color that traditional laser toner cartridges, and are more environmentally friendly. These solid ink color sticks are available in black, magenta, cyan, and yellow. TheXerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 can each print as much as 30 pages per minute for black and white and full color prints at a resolution of 600 dpi by 600 dpi. The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 have a first page out time of as little as 5 seconds.

The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 are powered by 600 MHz processors and come with 256MB of RAM. This memory can be upgraded to as much as 1 GB for users that need more memory in their printer. The Xerox 8560, 8550, and 8500 come with max page capacities of 1675 pages, with output trays capable of supporting 300 sheets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Various Printers & Supplies at The Supplies Guys

In this day and age there are hundreds if not thousands of options when shopping for printers & supplies. Hewlett Packard alone has printers for every possible need, their printer lines span from the individual home office user, who needs a simple HP Inkjet printer, to the large business user who requires an extensive HP LaserJet printer. While HP may be one of the more known printer manufacturers in the industry, there are hundreds more manufacturers who have similar products, including; Xerox Printers, Brother Printers, Samsung Printers and Lexmark Printers. It may seem a bit daunting when shopping for your printer supplies, but hopefully this article can help you know what you need next time you’re restocking on your supplies.

In the printer industry there are multiple options of printers you can purchase, most broadly categorized by Laser or inkjet printers, also known by whether they use ink and toner. Inside each category there are even more options, for example; inkjet printers can either have liquid ink or solid ink cartridges. So here is a breakdown of the supplies you would need for the three most popular printer types you may own; a Laser printer, Inkjet Printer or Solid Ink Printer.

Laser Printers: Laser printers are more commonly found throughout businesses, small and large, than houses. If you happen to own a laser printer, you need to know a few things right off the bat, laser toner cartridges seem to most as a more expensive printing consumable option, but in fact, they typically yield a lot more pages than inkjet cartridges. The three main parts that will need regular replacement in laser printers are toner cartridges, drum units (on select printers) and fuser units. Toner cartridges are the main component to a laser printer, in which stores the substance which actually creates the print. Drum units are only on select machines, but would be the second most commonly replaced item which are devices in which place the toner onto the paper. Fuser units are used in machines that do not have drums, which are used to adhere the toner to paper instead of drum units.

Inkjet Printers: Inkjet printers are ideal for home users that do not print that often, and occasionally need higher quality prints. Inkjet printers utilize a set of ink cartridges to print, some printers use as few as one inkjet cartridge where others can use up to 10 ink cartridges. Ink and toner cartridges differ in this, where toner cartridges come in only four colors, ink cartridges come in 10 different colors in some cases. For example, the Canon Pixma Pro9500 uses a total of 10 different ink cartridges to produce the most vibrant of prints.

Solid Ink Printers: Solid ink technology was first created by a company called Tektronix, which later sold its technology to Xerox, most commonly used in the Xerox ColorQube series, or the Xerox Phaser 8560 printer line.  Solid ink cartridges can sometimes be referred to as ink toner and is referred to as such due to its ability to provide ink cartridge quality of prints, with minimal waste, and high yields similar to toner cartridges. Solid ink uses wax ink sticks, and melts the ink to create the colors necessary for print outs.

When looking for a printer supply company, you should look for a company in which offers 100% satisfaction guarantees, and provides extraordinary customer service. The Supplies Guys not only has been rated in the top 1% of online retailers, but offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of your supplies, including the HP, Brother, Xerox and Samsung supplies. On top of that, we offer competitive prices on both OEM or Compatible Toner cartridges, so why not give us a call whether you’re looking for a new printer, or just to purchase some printer supplies.

Categories: Technology

Dell 5100cn Printer Review

With a monthly duty cycle of as much as 90,000 pages per month, the Dell 5100cn is a powerful, high quality color printer that is designed to meet the needs of a medium office. The Dell 5100cn is compatible with Windows based operating systems, including Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The Dell 5100cn is network ready, and needs only a wired Ethernet connection and a high speed USB cable for connectivity.

Dell 5100 Printer

This printer comes with a standard media capacity of 650 sheets, with the option to upgrade the page capacity to as much as 2150 sheets. The average print speed of the Dell 5100cn is 35 pages per minute for black and white and 25 pages per minute for full color prints. The Dell 5100cn prints with a resolution of 600 dpi by 600 dpi, so you can be certain your prints will come out with high quality. For printing in black and white and full color, the Dell 5100cn uses four Dell toner cartridges. These Dell 5100cn toner cartridges come in black, magenta, cyan, and yellow, and are designed to print a high volume of pages with high quality. The black Dell toner cartridge can print as much as 9000 pages, while the magenta, cyan, and yellow Dell toner cartridges can print as much as 8000 pages.

The Dell 5100cn measures only 16.8 inches wide, 22.9 inches deep, and 18.2 inches high, making it a compact print solution. This printer comes with a 400 MHz processor, and 128 MB of memory. The memory in this printer can be upgraded to as much as 640 MB.

Overall specs:

  • Print Speed: 35 ppm monochrome, 25 ppm color
  • Duty cycle: 90,000 pages
  • Memory: 128 MB upgradable to 640 MB
  • Connectivity: High speed USB
  • Measurements (WxDxH): 16.8 in x 22.9 in x 18.2 in
  • Resolution: 600 dpi by 600 dpi

Categories: Technology

HP Toner and HP Printer Supplies

When purchasing a printer, most shoppers check out the printer specifications, qualities such as pages per minute, auto-duplexing, multi-function capabilities, connectivity options come to mind, but one attribute that gets overlooked far too often is the cost of the printer’s supplies. Too many people have fallen victim to buying a printer that is very fairly priced, not to realize that the toner or ink cartridges for that printer are just as expensive as the printer, if not more expensive. When purchasing a printer, it’s best to take into consideration all factors of printing; cost of regular maintenance and upkeep, initial cost of printer and cost of consumables. The best way to do such an analysis is likely to consider all factors, and break it down to a per page basis, if you can get your cost figured out per page, you’d be able to compare all printers on common ground. So next time you buy a printer be sure to take into consideration the cost of the toners, maintenance kits and other specialty supplies some printers require.

Toners can vary in price by manufacturers, and even by printer models, that’s why it is so important to check your usual toner supplier before making any printer purchase. The HP toners seem to be very reasonable as of late, and have really brought the highest yield for the best value, with the most reliability. HP toner can come in both genuine OEM toner, or HP compatible toner, the HP compatible toner offers the same quality as HP OEM toner, and is usually backed by a 100% guarantee, at least at reputable office supply retailers. Reputable office supply retailers such as The Supplies Guys are able to provide their customers with 100% guarantees on their HP compatible toner cartridges due to their belief in the quality of their goods. Also retailers with such great track records as The Supplies Guys have, considering their bizrate circle of excellence awards, there should be no reason to not purchase compatible products.

Hewlett Packard is known as being one of the originators of computers and computer technology which is why HP is recognized as one of the largest printer manufacturers in the world. The HP toner and HP ink in which they create continue their tradition of creating quality machines by creating quality consumables. When purchasing an HP LaserJet Printer or HP InkJet Printer remember you’re not just buying a high quality printer, but in fact you’re making an investment in a high quality printer that uses some of the more innovative toner and inkjet supplies.

Categories: Technology

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