RE: Color tabloid size printer recommendation

Jeff,

Be prepared to pay quite a bit for the tabloid feature. That said, if money is 
no object, look at a Xerox 775O.  It goes beyond tabloid and does tabloid extra.

Color laser printers are a whole lot more problematic than black and whites.  
I've supported color laser printers here for the last six years,  everything 
from a HP 5M that did 5 ppm, to an HP 8550GN, to our Xerox that does 35 ppm and 
they've all been headaches except for the Xerox.

What sold us on the initial purchase was the print quality.  We had samples 
done on a Xerox and an HP printer and from a distance, you could see that the 
Xerox sample stood out.  Very glossy looking on plain paper, as if was printed 
on glossy stock.

The Xerox isn't attached to our i5 as it's used by Marketing, but I don't think 
there would be issues attaching it.

The printer's about $6,000.


Bryan


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:42 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Color tabloid size printer recommendation


All,

Due to the untimely death of our HP2800dtn printer (bought 9/2005, already
replaced once under warranty), I'm looking for replacement printer
recommendations.  I'm taking this "opportunity" to upgrade all our printing
in general.

I need the following capabilities (note that this is an upgrade to what the
2800dtn could do):

Color laser
Up to tabloid size paper
Duplex
Multiple drawers
PCL5e (or PCL5C AND include the full set of scalable PCL fonts)
PJL
25+ pages/minute color
Ethernet attached to i5 as a print device (not remote writer)
A workhorse printer, as it could become THE printer for our needs.

Thanks.