Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jan 06 '01
Pros: Good for office use, printing charts and so
Cons: Wax technology wastes electricty, photos come out too dark
Summary: Solid ink? Wax? What is this?
This printer uses some sort of wax that it boils until it melts. Then it shoots the fluid wax (ink) through injectors on your paper. According to the manufacturer this wax is actually edible (we did never ... read more
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Dec 16 '02
Pros: Fantastic output, real workhorse
Cons: Xerox has truly horrible warranty service
Summary: As a printer the Phaser is truly superb. I've got the 850N upgraded to the DP feature set. I cannot say enough good things about this printer.
Paper feeding is flawless.
Networking was a no brainer, and the network support software ... read more
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Oct 29 '02
Pros: solid ink (no fuser crap, etc.), fast, GREAT quality, FREE black ink for life!
Cons: annoying power save feature and slow warm-up, lack of support for larger paper sizes (tabloid).
Summary: -- I ORIGINALLY WROTE THIS ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO, BUT FORGOT TO HIT "PUBLISH!" HERE YOU GO NOW --
Have had my Tektronix 850DP for about 6 months now. Love it! Was originally concerned that the wax would easily scratch off of printed items, ... read more
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Apr 23 '02
Pros: Decent printing speed for larger projects
Cons: Expensive, wax printing, noise level
Summary: I work out of two different offices. One has the Tektronix Phaser 850 and one has the 850DP. They are basically the same printer, but the second has the ability to print duplex (both sides of the sheet). Xerox now owns the Tektronix line and they renamed ... read more
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Feb 13 '02
Pros: Beautiful color and photo prints!
Cons: You can't do ANYTHING with what you've printed.
Summary: I received this printer FREE of charge from the Xerox free color printer program. As long as you maintain a monthly print capacity (approx. 2500 pages) and buy your ink only from Xerox then the printer is yours.
I'll get to the ink and ... read more
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Jul 14 '01
Pros: Handy to use
Cons: What liars
Summary: 1) Forget the lie about 14 ppm. Count on 4, for anything and everything.
2) Forget the lie about free ink. Sure it's free, they just charge you $10 a stick to mail it to you.
3) Forget the lie about $0.05/page. We have kept very careful ... read more
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Jun 19 '01
Pros: Extremely versatile. Great Ink system and yield capacity. tremedous printer altogether.
Cons: expensive. not to excited about the maintence system costs. jams.
Summary: This is your all world laser printer. It is expensive but hey, if you've got $3700 then don't worry about it. You'll definitley get greater ink yield out of the solid ink system and you wont have to spend a ton to get it either.
It handles @ ... read more
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May 21 '01
Pros: fast printing for graphics
Cons: expensive
Summary: Wow this printer produces graphics very fast. The speedy rate is 2.4 pages per minute. This speed is twice as fast for color laser printers on the market. However , it is slower when it does plain text. The rate for text is 6.8 ppm. The average ... read more
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Apr 24 '01
Pros: Low cost per page
Fastest color printer I have seen
Free black ink
Cons: Slow warm-up time
Wastes ink on power up
Doesn't support NDPS at this time
Summary: When I first laid eyes on the Phaser color printers I knew that I wanted one. However been and employee of a small public school I didn't think my wish would ever come true until I found I XEROX program that was giving them away. Anyhow I will now tell ... read more
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Apr 18 '01
Pros: Great quality, offered for free to businesses
Cons: The shipping cost for ink purchases is expensive (starting at about $15.)
Summary: I love this printer, and I got it for FREE from Xerox in 2000. I just have to buy my ink and maintenance kits from them for 3 years. Xerox services the printer free for the 3-year term. The ink is expensive, but no more expensive than they sell it to ... read more
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Mar 03 '01
Pros: Easy network setup. Best plain-paper output. Fast color. Nice driver features. Free black for life.
Cons: Power button is in hard-to-reach location on back.
Summary: I've seen many, and I mean many printer models float into the school system I work for, but none like this! Tektronix (Xerox) has outdone themselves and the competition with this baby. I used the nice posterlike setup page to setup the printer. Setup ... read more
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Jan 08 '01
Pros: Incredible quality and value
Cons: Wax technology makes photocopying difficult
Summary: This is some printer. But it's not for the faint of heart or weak of pocketbook. This printer will set you back anywhere from the suggested price reported by epinions ($3,750) to a little more than $4,500 (which my company paid). Don't get this for ... read more
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Jan 05 '01
Pros: Great colour
Cons: Service Support very poor
Summary: I recently purchased a Tektronix 850 from my local dealer after much researching. I wanted a reliable and top quality colour printer for proofing & short run printing. According to all the ads and reviews I read it seemed to fit the bill very well. High ... read more
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Jan 02 '01
Pros: Fast, Great color, Easy setup, Intelligent Ready, MUCH easier maintenance, expandability
Cons: Long warmup time, wastes some ink on powerON, no paper stop at end of output tray
Summary: Laser printers have always had the sharpest text, but no color. Inkjet has color, (often in near-photo quality), but is s.l..o...w... Color laser printers are a good intermediary if you don't mind heavy maintenance.
Enter the Phaser 850. Using ... read more
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Dec 07 '00
Pros: good clear color, user-friendly, solid ink, doesn't take up much desk space
Cons: limited paper size & weight
Summary: I had been drooling over color laser printers for some time but they were entirely out of my budget. I stumbled over a truly wonderful promotional offer involving the Tektronix Phaser 850 laser printer and applied for the program. I was accepted and I ... read more
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