Xerox 7400 User Manual 2
Xerox Phaser®7400
Evaluator
Guide
color printer
Phaser®7400
CONTENTS
Section 1
Product Overview
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Configurations
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Section 2 – Evaluating Tabloid Color Laser Printers
Suggests specific features to look for in a printer of this class, how to evaluate
that feature, and how the Phaser 7400 measures up
Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Versatility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ease of Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Section 3
Competitive Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configuration Summary & Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Total Satisfaction Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Consumables and Maintenance Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Media Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Print Quality Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
TekColor Corrections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This guide will introduce you to the Xerox Phaser 7400 Color Laser Printer and help you in your printer evaluation process.
PHASER 7400 EVALUATOR GUIDE
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PHASER 7400 EVALUATOR GUIDE
SECTION 1
Product Overview
The Xerox Phaser®7400 Color Laser Printer combines superior speed with great value and
flexibility to set a new standard for business color and monochrome printing capability.
Superior Speed
The Phaser 7400 color printer is one of the fastest in its class, with color print speed up to
36 ppm and black & white print speed up to 40 ppm. But speed is more than a fast print
engine. 256 MB of standard memory allows the Phaser 7400 to RIP and pipeline multiple jobs
without creating a bottleneck. Workgroup efficiency is further enhanced with a first page out
time as fast as 12 seconds in color and 11 seconds in black and white. The 800MHz processor
provides fast RIP processing for all standard office applications. True Adobe
®
Postscript®3™and
a strong image processor provide excellent system throughput. And finally, Intelligent Features
like automatic tray selection, automatic tray switching and an automatic thickness sensor
assure that the job is done right the first time – avoiding costly delays and reprints.
Outstanding Value
The Phaser 7400 color printer is our most feature packed tabloid color printer ever, offered
at the lowest price ever. The low purchase price combined with low cost per page makes
the Phaser 7400 an attractive alternative to a high-end black and white only printer, or to a
low-end color copier. And by bringing print jobs in-house you can save more than enough
to pay for the printer. That’s economics that really add up.
Versatility
The Phaser 7400 color printer extends tabloid color printing in the office to new levels.
All trays handle media sizes from 4 x 6 inches up to 12 x 18 inches. Tray 1 can even print
banners up to 12 x 48 inches. And all trays can take media up to 80 lb Cover (216 gsm)
and Tray 1 up to 100 lb. Cover (270 gsm). And the 7400DXF boasts a total capacity of 3000-
sheets, from 6 different trays, for maximum flexibility and uninterrupted printing.
High volume applications will appreciate the finishing features available
with the Phaser 7400. From job offset, to multiple hole punch and
stapling options, all the way to V-fold booklet printing with saddle
stitch stapling.
And you can be sure that output is correct with the color confidence
provided by the leader in office color printing technologies. (TekColor
Dynamic Color Correction, ColorSync, Adobe
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PostScript®Level 3™,
PANTONE
©
certification, sRGB color matching, and ICC/ICM support)
Phaser 7400DXF
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PHASER 7400N FEATURE SET
The Phaser 7400N comes with standard features not
even available as options on many competitors.
• Up to 36 ppm in color, 40 ppm black and white
• 800 MHz PowerPC image processor
• 256 MB memory, expandable to 1 GB
• True Adobe®PostScript®3
™
• Selectable print resolution; Standard,
Enhanced, Photo
• 800 sheet input capacity
• Up to 12 x 18 inch media size and up to 100 lb Cover
(270 gsm) media weight
• Common Printing Features:
• Intelligent Ready
• TekColor Color Correction
• Watermark printing
• N-up Printing
• Separation Pages
• Cover Sheets
• Automatic Tray Selection
• Extended Printing Features:
• Embedded Web Server
• Remote Printing
• Email alerts
• Enhanced PrintingScout
• Job Accounting
• Billing Meters
• Usage Analysis Tools
• PhaserSMART
• Driver Color Controls
• RAM Collation
• Configuration Card
• USB 2.0 and 10/100BaseT Ethernet connectivity
• 1 year On-Site Warranty
• Xerox Total Satisfaction Guarantee
PHASER 7400DN FEATURE SET
The Phaser 7400DN has all the features and power
of the Phaser 7400N model and adds:
• Automatic two-sided printing
PHASER 7400DT FEATURE SET
The Phaser 7400DT has all the features and power
of the Phaser 7400DN model and adds:
• 256 MB more memory for a total of 512 MB
• 550-sheet lower tray assembly, increasing total
capacity to 1350-sheets
• Custom page size and Banner Printing
up to 12 x 48 in.
• 20 GB Hard Disk providing Advanced Printing
Features:
• Saved Print
• Secure Print
• Proof Print
• Personal Print
• CentreWare Internet Services
• Extended Job Accounting
• Font Storage
• Extended Collation
PHASER 7400DXF FEATURE SET
The Phaser 7400DXF has all the features and power
of the Phaser 7400DX model and adds:
• 550-sheet lower tray assembly for a total capacity
of 3000-sheets
• 1000-sheet Finisher/Stacker with job offset,
hole punch, stapling and booklet making
PHASER 7400DX FEATURE SET
The Phaser 7400DX has all the features and power
of the Phaser 7400DT model and adds:
• Replaces 550-sheet lower tray assembly with a
1650-sheet High Capacity Feeder for a total capacity
of 2450-sheets.
Configurations
SECTION 2
Evaluating Tabloid Color Laser Printers
Tabloid (11 x 17 in.) color printers open up a wide range of possibilities in the office to create
dynamic, attention-grabbing documents. Prints that once were outsourced to a costly service
bureau can now be produced inexpensively, at the touch of a button. But evaluating a tabloid
color printer can be a formidable task.
There are several models on the market boasting numerous features. Based on years of
research and experience with the real-world needs of color printer users, the Xerox Office
Printing Business has identified some key issues for you to consider as you undertake your
own tabloid color printer evaluation.
• Speed
• Value
• Versatility
• Ease of Use
This section of the Evaluator Guide will look at each of these areas, and suggest
ways you can evaluate a printer’s performance against that requirement. Do this for
all printers you are considering and you’ll see how the Phaser 7400 exceeds expectations on all counts.
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HOW THE PHASER 7400 EXCEEDS THE SPEED REQUIREMENT:
High quality color printing cannot come at the expense of productivity — the two must
go together. A color printer must be able to handle a wide variety of documents quickly
and reliably. A color printer must keep up with the performance demands of multiple users
in a shared network environment.
Measure overall performance.
To accurately measure overall performance in a real workgroup environment, send a mix of
black and white and color documents of different length and complexity to the printer over a
standard Ethernet network. This combines the network transmission time, first-page-out time,
and multi-copy engine speed to paint a clear picture of actual overall performance.
Calculate print job throughput.
Print job throughput is the time it takes from clicking the print button on your computer screen
to the final delivery of the color document to the output tray, sometimes called click-to-clunk.
Raw print speed is only a part of the total print time; image-processing speed can be even more
important to maximizing throughput. Test for large multi-page multi-copy jobs such as reports,
proposals and presentations.
Consider color print speed.
Since color printing, rather than black-and-white printing, is the primary use of most color
printers, it makes sense to pay attention to the color print speed. Start with the rated engine
speed, but be sure to investigate the total color and monochrome throughput, including image
processing speed and first page out time.
EVALUATE PRINT SPEED
The Phaser 7400 is the fastest color printer in the office. At 36 ppm it is 33% faster than the HP 5550
in color, and at 40 ppm it is 50% faster in black and white. By combining a 800 MHz image processor
with over 16 years of color printing experience, we have evolved the fastest image processing capabilities
in the industry, giving us a first-page-out time as fast as 12 seconds for letter-size color, and 11 seconds
for black and white.
The resulting productivity means that your print job is finished while competitors are still processing.
And it’s fast enough to replace some copier workload and short run production activities. The Phaser
7400 could even replace multiple printers in the office, both color and black and white.