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The $1549 (as of 11/07/2012) Xerox Phaser 6700/DN produces some of the smoothest photos you’ll see from a workgroup color laser printer, albeit a little orangey until
you tweak the palette. It’s also fast, and it offers lots of paper capacity. The price of supplies is very inexpensive, with the price per four-color page
as low as 8.6 cents (with high-yield supplies).
At 93 pounds, the Phaser 6700/DN is a hefty, solidly constructed printer with a high monthly duty cycle of 120,000 pages. Paper handling features include
automatic duplexing; a 550-sheet, bottom-mounted main tray, and a 150-sheet multi-purpose tray that folds out from the side. You can add more capacity with
auxiliary 550-sheet ($399) or 1,100-sheet ($799) trays. There’s also a stacking/stapling finisher available ($899).
The Phaser 6700/DN is one of several related configurations: the $1349 Phaser 6700/N without duplexing, the $1899 Phaser 6700/DT with the 1,100 sheet tray
standard, and the $2899 Phaser 6700/DX with maximum paper capacity (three trays) standard. (A $200 rebate in effect with all Phaser 6700 models through the
end of 2012 is not reflected in the prices above.) One year of onsite service and warranty is included in the price, but it seems a bit skimpy for a
product this expensive. Xerox offers a wide variety of onsite service plans for up to four years.
Supply costs for the Phaser 6700/DN are much cheaper than average. The 5,000-page, $180 standard cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges work out to about 3.6
cents per page (cpp) per color. The standard black cartridge is $140 and lasts for 7,100 pages, or 2 cpp. The $295, 12,000-page, high-capacity colors drop
the per-page cost slightly to 2.5 cents per color, while the $216, 18,000-page black cartridge works out to 1.2 cpp. All told, you’re paying about 8.6
cents per four-color page with the high-capacity supplies, and a hair under 13 cents with the less capacious cartridges. Other supplies include 50,000-page
imaging units that cost $100 for each color and $80 for the black. A 25,000-page waste catch costs $30. All these combine to add about 0.9 cents total to
every page (after the original consumables are exhausted).
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