Lower Colour Printing Cost by Xerox Phaser 8860

Would you buy a printer if it offers you the same pricing for both colour and black? Of course, as long as the colour printing prices are that of black. It is no dream but a reality, thanks to Xerox Corporation for their Phaser 8860. The cost model is different from other printers; the initial printer cost is doubly expensive in exchange for a low colour printing cost.

The breakthrough pricing is possible due to a Xerox patented technology of solid inks which leaves behind nothing as it gets fully consumed. In layman terms, it works like a crayon. Extracting full ink sticks reduces print costs. It is claimed to reduce ink wastage by 90%.

It is no mug with other features. It prints at a speed 30ppm in colour and black and white. It is integrated with a 750 MHz processor and true Adobe PostScript3. It also encourages green printing with automatic two-sided printing and N-up printing which prints multiple pages onto one.

This solution is aimed at offices that print anywhere between 1000 and 10,000 pages. The basic model of Phaser 8860 is priced at £1250 and the multi-function brother 8860MFP at £2000. Black ink sticks are priced at £108 and can print a whopping 14,000 pages. The three colour sticks RGB are each priced at £36 and each can print 14,000 pages as well.

Xerox will hope to conquer the business market with Phaser 8860. The pricing model is different and brilliant. The printing costs will eventually even out with the high cost printer in a short period of time. Every business should be able to afford colour prints for its employees at no extra cost; great! isn’t it?

via News Release