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Xerox's state-of-the-art Phaser 6360 is a single-pass color laser printer that offers high-speed performance for SMB customers.
CRN Test Center engineers looked at the Phaser 6360/DN, which offers 1,200 x 600 dpi native resolution and up to 2,400 x 600 dpi enhanced resolution. At $1,599, Xerox touts it as the value model of the line. With standard automatic two-sided printing, it's a step up from the base-model 6360/N at $1,399, but comes with less memory than the 6360/DT, the next model in the family. At the top of the line is the DX, which includes an internal hard drive.
Performance is where the unit really excels. It can produce output at speeds up to 42 pages per minute (ppm) in color and black and white, with the first page out in as little as 9 seconds. A 1GHz processor and 256 Mbytes of memory help it attain those speeds, and its memory can be upgraded to 1 Gbyte if necessary to boost performance. The Phaser 6360's duty cycle is a generous 100,000 pages per month, and it offers true Adobe PostScript 3 printing.
Engineers tested for performance and image quality using a stopwatch and select files from the Spencer & Associates Printer Test Suite, a collection of documents and photos designed to push printers to their limits. In one example, the Phaser 6360/DN printed a photo of a castle in 10.2 seconds, compared to 13 seconds to 90 seconds for previous generations of the product.
In order to achieve such performance, Xerox has reduced image quality in the default print mode. While produced quickly, the printout lacked...