Xerox Phaser 7500

Xerox Phaser 7500 Color Laser Printer

Yes, it's expensive, but it prints on paper up to banner size, at a fast clip and for a low cost. Faster than most color laser printers and able to tackle tabloid-size paper, the Xerox Phaser 7500DN is a supersized unit in its class--and so is its price tag ($3300 at this writing). For those who need tabloid- or banner-sized color printouts, however, it does a beautiful job. The Phaser 7500/DN raced through our performance tests. It printed plain-text pages at a rate of 28.1 pages per minute (ppm) and color pages as fast as 5.1 ppm--short of Xerox's promise of up to 35 ppm, but still significantly faster than other color lasers we've tested. Tabloid-size pages are four times bigger than our letter-size print samples and will likely take even longer per page to print. The print quality was attractive and realistic overall, except for flesh tones, which tended to have an orange cast. This high-volume unit can take paper every which way. A 500-sheet main input tray takes up to 11.7-by-17-inch paper; optional 500-sheet ($600) or 1500-sheet ($1200) feeders handle up to 13-by-18-inch media. The 100-sheet multipurpose tray (MPT) can take up to 12.6-by-47.2-inch, banner-size media.