The Xerox Phaser 8560 and Xerox Phaser 8860 is a Fragile Mailing Experience!

If you speak to a sales rep who sells the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 it will seem like this is the best printer in the history of mankind…  if you are speaking to someone who sells another brand of color printer in Denver, it will be the worst printer in mankind!  I guess this is how perspective works.  We focus on what works for us.  I suppose this is the benefit of being a multi-vendor company.  We can see strengths and weaknesses and not freak out one way or the other.

FYI — The Phaser 8560 and the Phaser 8860 are basically the same printer – just different supplies (bigger wax blocks in the Phaser 8860 and lower costs for the wax making it have a much lower cost per print) 

The Xerox Phaser 8560 is a wax technology.  Think of it this way…  4 different colors of crayons are melted, shot through a printhead and pushed into the paper through some pressure.  Now, the nice part is that even cheap paper looks like glossy paper since it is wax and not a traditional color laser printer.  The disadvantage is this… Mail sorters.  How does a mail sorter work?  Basically seperation and then it goes through a reader.  In order to read correctly it must go through individually.  This requires pressure.  The volume of mail requires speed.  Speed and pressure basically equals heat.  Heat melts wax…  are you starting to see the issue?

Now, other manufacturers will act as if you will have a clean piece of paper and candle wax in an envelope.  It’s not that bad.  There is simply some streaking that can occur.  Before you decide to buy the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 color printer, just have some print samples run.  If you never do mailers, don’t worry.  If you do, it may still be OK, but you will want to test the runs so that you do not purchase a color printer that you’ll want to return.

If you send us files, we’d be happy to print and mail you some samples.  If you hear that the Xerox Phaser 8560 or the Xerox Phaser 8860 is awful, don’t worry, you are probably talking to someone who sells a competitor’s color box.  If you hear no one ever had this problem, you are probably talking to a Xerox employee.