Xerox 8560 User Manual

Phaser®8560

Xerox Phaser®8560

Evaluator

Guide

colour printer

Contents

CONTENTS

Section 1 — Introducing the Xerox Phaser 8560 Solid Ink Colour Printer

Product Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Xerox Phaser 8560 Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Section 2 — Evaluating Workgroup Colour Printers

Evaluate Printing Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Evaluate Print Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Evaluate Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Evaluate Ease of Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Evaluate Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Section 3 — Solid Ink Technology

Inside a Solid Ink Colour Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Section 4 — Configurations, Specifications, Supplies, Support

and Information Sources

Configuration Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Supplies, Options and Extended Service Agreements. . . . . . . . 15

Support and Information Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

This guide will introduce you to the Xerox Phaser 8560 colour printer, and help you in your printer evaluation process.

PHASER 8560 EVALUATOR GUIDE

SECTION 1

Introducing the Xerox Phaser 8560 Solid Ink Colour Printer

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

The Xerox Phaser 8560 solid ink colour printer is a high-performance colour printer based on Xerox-exclusive solid ink technology. It is designed for busy workgroups in both small and large companies. The Phaser 8560 delivers fast print speeds, an affordable purchase price and unique solid-ink ease of use — all in a flexible printer that can expand from a desktop model to a four-tray, floor-standing powerhouse.

No-fuss productivity

A simple, cartridge-free design and a host of helpful features make the Phaser 8560 printer simple to set up, operate and share.

• Replenishing ink is as easy as reloading a stapler — you can top off all the inks when one gets low, minimising interventions

• Cartridge-free design means no empty cartridges to dispose of and no bulky boxes to store

• Streamlined, wizard-based driver installation gets your printer up and running in minutes

• PrintingScout

™

technology alerts you when print jobs are interrupted and suggests appropriate remedies

Outstanding colour print quality

The Phaser 8560 printer gives you precise details and rich, vibrant colours.

• Count on superior output on everything from cover-weight stock to recycled paper

• Confidently handle colour projects in-house and say good-bye to lost time and the extra expense of outside services

• Nothing else on the market delivers more consistent, vivid colour — the last page of a long job looks as good as the first page

A colour printer that meets the challenge

The Phaser 8560 printer delivers fast, attention-grabbing results.

• Prints up to 30 pages per minute (ppm) in black and white and colour, with a first-page-out time as fast as 5 seconds

• Powerful controller adeptly handles complex print jobs with a 600 MHz processor and up to 512 MB of memory

• Automatic two-sided output saves time, reduces paper costs and gives documents a professional look

Phaser 8560DT

PHASER 8560 EVALUATOR GUIDE

PHASER 8560N

The Phaser 8560N comes packed with features to support busy workgroups in small and large office environments.

Print Performance

• Print Speed — Up to 30 ppm colour and black and white

• First-Page-Out Time — As fast as 5 seconds

• Resolution — Up to 2400 FinePoint™

• Page Description Languages — True Adobe®PostScript®3™, PCL®5c emulation

Controller

• Processor — 600 MHz PowerPC

• Memory — 256 MB standard (1 GB maximum)

• Hard Drive — Optional 40 GB

Connectivity

• Network — 10/100Base-TX Ethernet

• Direct Connect — USB 2.0

• Paper Capacity: 625 total sheets, standard (1,675 total sheets, optional)

• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — 100 sheets

• Tray 2 — 525 sheets

• Trays 3 and 4 (optional) — 525 sheets each

Paper Handling

• Supported Sizes —

- Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — Custom sizes from 89 x 127 mm to 216 x 356 mm

- Trays 2–4 — Selectable sizes from 140 x 216 mm to 216 x 356 mm

• Supported Weights —

- Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — 60 to 220 gsm

- Trays 2–4 — 60 to 120 gsm

• Media Types — Transparencies, envelopes, labels, glossy paper, customsize paper

Print Features

• Standard — Custom-size pages, Xerox installer, intelligent ready, booklet printing, Smart Trays, remote printing, job accounting, printer neighbourhood, run black

• Optional (requires hard disk) — Personal/personal saved/secure/proof/saved print, print with, extended font/form storage, collation, hard drive overwrite

Reliability

• Duty Cycle — 85,000 prints per month

• Warranty — One-year on-site warranty

PHASER 8560DT

Includes all capabilities of the Phaser 8560DN, with the following upgrades:

Controller

• Memory — 512 MB standard

Paper Capacity: 1,150 total sheets, standard (1,675 total sheets, optional)

• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — 100 sheets

• Tray 2 — 525 sheets

• Tray 3 — 525 sheets

PHASER 8560DX

Includes all capabilities of the Phaser 8560DT, with the following upgrades:

Controller:

• Hard Drive — Standard 40 GB

Paper Capacity: 1,675 total sheets, standard

• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — 100 sheets

• Tray 2 — 525 sheets

• Tray 3 — 525 sheets

• Tray 4 — 525 sheets

*Print volume uniformly distributed over 30 days.

PHASER 8560DN

Includes all capabilities of the Phaser 8560N, with the following upgrade:

Print Performance

• Automatic two-sided output

XEROX PHASER 8560 CONFIGURATIONS

SECTION 2

Evaluating Workgroup Colour Printers

While the benefits of colour are easy to see, evaluating colour printers for purchase and deployment into your business can be more challenging. Based on years of experience and research into the real-world needs of colour printer users, Xerox has identified some key issues for you to consider as you conduct your colour printer evaluations.

Workgroup printers are typically shared by as many as 25 people on a day-to-day basis; even more people are likely to use it on a sporadic basis. Further, larger workgroups often comprise employees who work off of different platforms and operating systems — such as Microsoft Windows

, Apple Mac®OS or Linux®— so driver support for multiple platforms is another important factor. Further, many small- and medium-size businesses interested in adopting colour printers lack full-time IT staff — so the machines they ultimately deploy must be strong performers with broad interoperability that are simultaneously easy to install, manage and use.

Currently, the single most common use of colour printing technology is print media creation for your company’s customers and partners. Such media includes marketing and sales collaterals, reports, proposals, user guides and the like. As workgroup colour printer utilisation grows more pervasive, traditional black and white documents will be transposed for colour prints, which will improve end user retention and understanding of their content.

Regardless of application or environment, the following areas remain very important factors when customers contemplate purchasing a colour printer.

Evaluate Printing Performance

More than just pages per minute, the overall printing performance of a colour printer indicates whether it can support the workload of your busy employees.

Evaluate Print Quality

Think about the intended audience for the documents this printer will ultimately produce. Is the print quality good enough to enhance your internal documents and dazzle your customers?

Evaluate Installation

The colour printer you choose must be quick and easy to install, whether you have IT staff on hand to assist or not.

Evaluate Ease of Use

Your employees need a printer that’s simple and intuitive to use on a daily basis: Supplies must be easy to replace and issues must be easy to resolve.

Evaluate Management

Examine the tools available for IT administrators in larger organisations to manage printer settings, user access, printer status and more.

Your challenge is to evaluate the colour printers available on the market today and choose the one that most completely meets your company’s needs in each of these areas. This section of the Evaluator Guide will examine each of these areas, suggest ways you can evaluate a prospective product candidate against that requirement, and explain how the Phaser 8560 solid ink colour printer exceeds the expectations of colour printer users on all counts.

PHASER 8560 EVALUATOR GUIDE

OVERALL PRINT PERFORMANCE

The Phaser 8560 is a high-performance colour printer based on Xerox-exclusive solid ink technology. It is designed to handle the daily demands of busy workgroups within both small and large companies. Most importantly, it is designed with user flexibility foremost in mind. Users don’t want to be limited to a single print speed or print mode, since some of their print jobs may demand maximum speed while others require the best image quality possible. The Phaser 8560 colour printer incorporates this need for flexibility by offering four print modes: fast colour, standard, enhanced (default mode), and high-resolution/photo mode.

The Phaser 8560 printer delivers not only options but also performance. With print speeds as fast as 30 ppm, long print jobs can be tackled quickly. The other key performance metric for colour printers is first-page-out time, and the Phaser 8560 delivers here as well, with a fast first-page-out time of as little as 5 seconds. For busy workgroups that regularly print a mix of long and short print jobs, the Phaser 8560 packs the performance needed to process jobs quickly and keep your office productive.

POWERFUL CONTROLLER

The Phaser 8560 controller is based on a 600 MHz PowerPC RISC processor with 256 MB of memory, standard (512 MB of memory, maximum). This enables the Phaser 8560 printer to quickly process complex print jobs and deliver its extremely fast first-page-out time.

BUILT TO BE SHARED

With standard support for 10/100Base-TX Ethernet networking, an 85,000page-per-month duty cycle, and a customisable paper capacity from 625 to 1,675 pages, the Phaser 8560 is truly built to be shared. Network administration tools are provided to help IT departments track printer use, facilitate chargeback billings, and plan for future printer deployment.

HOW THE XEROX PHASER 8560 EXCEEDS THE PRINTING PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT

Workgroup-class colour printers need to deliver a level of performance that can support a heavy daily workload. This includes raw print speed, as well as print job processing speed. Is the print controller powerful enough to support your applications? Is the printer designed to be shared by employees in busy workgroups? Does the printer provide the right media support for

your applications?

EVALUATE PRINTING PERFORMANCE

Phaser 8560DX

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