Xerox PHASER 7500DX, Phaser 7500D, Phaser 7500DN, Phaser 7500DT Evaluator Manual
Phaser®
7500
Tabloid-size
Color Printer
Xerox Phaser® 7500
Color Printer
Evaluator Guide
About this Guide
This Evaluator Guide introduces you to the Xerox Phaser® 7500 printer and
explains its key features and performance advantages and provides guidance
throughout your printer evaluation process.
Section 1: Evaluating
Tabloid/A3 Color Printers
3 Overview
4 Productivity
6 Print Quality
8 Deployment, Management
and Ease of Use
12 Sustainability
13 Support and Service
Section 2: Introducing the Xerox
Phaser 7500 Color Printer
14 Product Overview
16 Phaser 7500 Configurations
and Accessories
Section 3: Technical
Specifications, Supplies
and Support Resources
18 Configuration Summary
19 Specifications
20 Supplies
21 Support and Additional
Information Sources
Phaser® 7500 Quick Facts
• Built-in networking
• 35 ppm color/black-and-white
• 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
• Print oversize media –
Tabloid Extra
• 2,100 sheet maximum
paper capacity
2 Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide
35
WxDxH:
(7500DX configuration)
25.2 x 26.2 x 30.3 in.
640 x 665 x 770 mm
Print
12 x 18 in.
ppm
Section 1: Evaluating Tabloid/A3 Color Printers
Overview
A workgroup printer is a resource typically shared by up to 25 networked
users on a regular basis. Because it is common for a network to include multiple
computer platforms, such as any of the various versions of Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS, Unix or Linux, and because a network printer is relied upon by multiple users,
we recommended that the following criteria be used when evaluating which printer
to purchase for your office:
Productivity
Can the printer keep up with your daily
and monthly print volumes?
Print Quality
Does the printer produce consistently highquality output for your workgroup’s office
document demands?
Deployment, Management
and Ease of Use
Is the printer simple for your IT staff to
deploy and manage, and will it be easy
for your employees to use?
Support
Does the manufacturer provide the
resources you need to ensure maximum
uptime and optimal performance?
Sustainability
Does the printer meet the industry’s
recognized environmental sustainability
standards, and will it help your office
reduce consumable usage?
This section examines each of
the evaluation criteria in greater
detail, covering the specific
features and performance
attributes you should look for
in a high-volume color printer.
When the same criteria are used
to evaluate every device under
consideration, you’ll see how
the Phaser® 7500 color printer
excels against other manufacturers’
products.
Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide 3
Section 1: Evaluating Tabloid/A3 Color Printers
Productivity
Productivity is a critical consideration when evaluating department-class color
printers, such as the Phaser
required to support the workload of larger groups of users? Can it be expanded to meet
a workgroup’s evolving needs, and does it offer the media flexibility to support
a variety of jobs?
®
7500. Does the printer deliver the level of performance
How the Phaser 7500 exceeds
the productivity requirement
Printing performance
Whether printing single- or double-sided
documents, the Phaser 7500 printer
maintains its print speed of up to 35 ppm.
For average print jobs of three pages or
less, the most important specification is
first-page-out time, and the Phaser 7500
printer delivers in as few as 7 seconds.
Even the heaviest workloads are
handled with ease by the Phaser 7500
printer. The high-performance 1 GHz
PowerGUICC™ III processor can receive
a steady succession of simple and
complex print jobs, in either color or
black-and-white, while maintaining
optimal productivity.
Expandability
Numerous accessories are available to
help maximize the Phaser 7500 printer’s
productivity. For those users who print
a high volume of large, complex files,
controller memory can be expanded
to a maximum of 2 GB with 256 or
512 MB upgrades.
Plus, the optional Productivity Kit provides
additional security features and the ability
to store forms in the printer for easy
reprinting.
For workgroups of 10 or more users,
consider increasing paper capacity
by including up to three additional
500-sheet trays. The Phaser 7500 can
handle a total paper capacity of 2,100
sheets for optimum, uninterrupted
workgroup productivity.
4 Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide
Media support
Paper capacity and media support offered
®
by the Phaser
7500 printer include:
Standard trays
•
Tray 1 (Multipurpose tray):
100-sheet capacity; custom sizes
from 3.5 x 3.9 in. to 12.6 x 47.2 in. /
89 x 99 mm to 320 x 1200 mm; 18 lb.
bond to 100 lb. cover / 67 – 280 gsm
Phaser 7500 Configurations
•
Tray 2: 500-sheet capacity;
custom sizes from 5.5 x 7.2 in. to
11.7 x 17 in. / 140 x 182 mm to
297 x 432 mm; 18 lb. bond to
90 lb. cover / 67 – 256 gsm
Optional trays
•
Trays 3, 4, 5: 500-sheet capacity
each; custom sizes from 5.5 x 7.2 in.
to 11.7 x 17 in. / 140 x 182 mm to
297 x 432 mm; 18 lb. bond to 90 lb.
cover / 67 – 256 gsm
Phaser 7500D/DN configuration.
Phaser 7500DT configuration.
Phaser 7500DX configuration.
Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide 5
Section 1: Evaluating Tabloid/A3 Color Printers
Print Quality
Many factors determine the quality of the print output delivered by a
color printer. Printhead technology and image resolution, color registration and
accuracy and intuitive, user-friendly color adjustments are all key components of
a printer’s ability to deliver the results you demand to bring your high-end color
print jobs in-house.
Precise Color Registration
The Phaser® 7500 digitally adjusts for
mis-registration. Notice the white edges on the
“G” and "M" produced by the laser device. The
Phaser 7500 automatically makes the necessary adjustments.
Phaser 7500
R G B
C M Y
Comparable Laser
R G B
R G B
C M Y
C M Y
How the Phaser® 7500
printer exceeds the print
quality requirement
Color controls
Our Xerox-exclusive “Color by Words,”
a powerful-yet-intuitive color technology,
takes the guesswork out of optimizing
your color print jobs. With Color By Words*
there is no need to manipulate source
files. Users simply select the desired
color modifications from a drop-down
list—such as “pale green colors a lot
more green” or “red colors a lot
more saturated”—and the image is
automatically adjusted.
Color registration and accuracy
With an ASIC driver to control the light
intensity of the LEDs in each printhead,
HiQ LED offers better dot-to-dot intensity
and timing control, and produces more
precise color registration. HiQ LED handles
mis-registration issues automatically,
simultaneously and continuously, from
LED to LED. In fact, tests show that HiQ
LED technology corrects color
mis-registration even better than
comparable laser printers.
Also, with Pantone®-approved color
tables, the Phaser 7500 prints specified
colors consistently and accurately,
ensuring that the colors you expect are
the colors you get. Plus, true Adobe®
PostScript® 3™ gives you the power to
print visually rich documents reliably.
Plus, text is sharp and readable whether
printed in black on colored backgrounds
or in color on black backgrounds, thanks
to the Phaser 7500 printer’s Black
Trapping feature.
Printhead technology
and image resolution
The Phaser 7500 color printer features
the new Xerox HiQ LED printhead,
which offers major improvements in
image quality.
In the Phaser 7500 there are four
individual printheads. With each LED
array packing 1200 diodes per inch, the
printhead can create many more, and
*English only.
6 Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide
much finer, dots for exceptional resolution,
while also saving space in the system’s
overall design.
The “brain” behind the entire print-head
process is Xerox’s new application specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) driver chip. This
high-performance driver precisely controls
the intensity and timing of the 14,592
dots of light (LEDs) in each printhead to
achieve true 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution—
print quality that’s equivalent to, and
often better than, comparable laser
systems. By continually and automatically
monitoring information about each LED,
the ASIC driver can adjust each diode’s
light intensity and timing. This ensures
uniformity across the entire LED array—
and produces consistently high print
quality without compromising the printer’s
high-speed output. Whether printing
spreadsheets, presentations or customer
collaterals, the Phaser 7500 delivers truly
impressive results.
The Xerox EA Toner Difference
Xerox EA toner.
Color by Words
Conventional toner.
Plus, Xerox EA toner—chemically grown
to produce the market’s smallest, most
uniformly shaped particles—delivers
sharper clarity, excellent shadowing and
outstanding fine-line detail.
Before Color by Words
Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide 7
After Color by Words
Section 1: Evaluating Tabloid/A3 Color Printers
Deployment, Management and Ease of Use
Installing printers can be challenging, whether in a large organization or
small office. The process includes integrating the devices into your existing network
infrastructure and deploying print drivers to users’ computers. Evaluate whether the
driver installation process can be automated. Also, evaluate the management tools
delivered with the printer, and whether they will ease the task of managing the device.
Lastly, think about ease of use. Is the device simple to operate, and will users quickly
feel comfortable using it? Are the user interfaces, both the front panel and print driver,
well designed and easy to navigate?
With CentreWare® IS, remote management of
the Phaser 750 0 is easily handled using any
web browser.
How the Phaser® 7500
printer exceeds the
deployment requirement:
Installation
The Phaser 7500 printer is designed to
be set up and installed by non-technical
users. Supplies come pre-loaded, and the
included quick install guide helps install
optional accessories, connect the printer
to your network and a power source,
and power-up the device. The printer will
automatically be assigned an IP address
and join the network via DHCP (other
networking protocols can be set at the
front panel). Device settings, such as
language selection and feature setup,
are completed either at the front panel or
via remote management software like
CentreWare Web or CentreWare Internet
Services (CentreWare IS). Simply enter the
Phaser 7500 printer's IP address into your
web browser to access CentreWare IS.
For IT administrators in Mac
environments, peace of mind comes
from knowing that Xerox printers and
MFPs are the devices of choice for more
Mac users than any other brand of
office equipment. The Phaser 7500 is
no exception, providing full compatibility
with the latest Mac operating system,
OSX 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”).
Driver deployment
With the Phaser 7500 printer, print
drivers can be deployed centrally, thereby
eliminating the need for IT staff to
perform desk-to-desk manual installation
of the driver software.
8 Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Printer Evaluator Guide
Loading...