Xerox Phaser 3250/DN Mono Laser Network Duplex Printer

This printer is simply amazing. Blazingly fast, super crisp, sharp, high resolution text output. I have been a long time user of HP printers. Mainly because everywhere I worked they had HP. Wow talk about guilty of being a lemming! Never again! Xerox makes far superior printers. Some of the reasons I am now a loyal Xerox customer:

1) Cross platform drivers. Xerox actually cares enough to write drivers for Windows, Linux, and OS X. I proudly only buy Apple computers and come from a UNIX background. So to see Xerox put in the effort and cost to write and maintain cross platform driver support tells me they care about the customer regardless of platform.

2) Dollar for dollar the Xerox won out over HP in speed, output resolution, cross platform support and features. This printer has network and automatic duplex support, supports Postscript 3, 1200 dpi, 30 pages per minute, and on top of that one of the fastest processors found in printers in this price range...Read more

I needed a home printer with postscript 3 (DN model). I use it for home and some freelance graphic design work. I like Xerox printers as I have worked with Xerox high end color printers in the workplace. I tried to buy this printer locally (Cincinnati) but I couldn't find one or the printer was on back order. I found it on Amazon it shipped and arrived no problem. I have it connected to my Mac and at some point my husband will want to network it - we have not tried that yet.

This is a speedy, capable printer. It feels sturdy, and is especially quiet compared to the HP printer it replaced. The combo of features and solid build makes it a good value for the price.

Setup on a Windows 2003 server network was painless. DHCP recognized it immediately and driver software loaded without a hitch. If you want to specify a specific IP address, the included SetIP software makes changing to the preferred address easy.

One potential downside is the manual feeder, which only allows loading a single piece of media at a time. If you've got just a handful of envelopes, checks, labels, etc. to print, feeding them one sheet at a time is no biggie, but if you have a bunch to do, this isn't the best choice.

The 5000 page high capacity toner cartridge keeps maintainance to a minumum and makes per page printing costs attractive, about $0.02 per page.

As a small office or personal printer, it rocks and is a good...Read more