Tektronix Phaser 850 Printer

Pros: Good for office use, printing charts and so
Cons: Wax technology wastes electricty, photos come out too dark

Solid ink? Wax? What is this?

This printer uses some sort of wax that it boils until it melts. Then it shoots the fluid wax (ink) through injectors on your paper. According to the manufacturer this wax is actually edible (we did never...

Pros: cool inksticks, solid ink technology, fast,
Cons: no tabloid page size, no full bleeds

Looking for a new color printer? Need accuracy? Want quality that will impress the dickens out of your clients? Then the Tektronix Phaser 850 is the printer for you. I ordered mine from FreeColorPrinters.com and am absolutely satisfied.... For the...

Pros: fast printing for graphics
Cons: expensive

Wow this printer produces graphics very fast. The speedy rate is 2.4 pages per minute. This speed is twice as fast for color laser printers on the market. However , it is slower when it does plain text. The rate for text is 6.8 ppm. The average...

Pros: Easy network setup. Best plain-paper output. Fast color. Nice driver features. Free black for life.
Cons: Power button is in hard-to-reach location on back.

I've seen many, and I mean many printer models float into the school system I work for, but none like this! Tektronix (Xerox) has outdone themselves and the competition with this baby. I used the nice posterlike setup page to setup the printer. Setup...

Pros: Decent printing speed for larger projects
Cons: Expensive, wax printing, noise level

I work out of two different offices. One has the Tektronix Phaser 850 and one has the 850DP. They are basically the same printer, but the second has the ability to print duplex (both sides of the sheet). Xerox now owns the Tektronix line and they renamed...

Pros: good clear color, user-friendly, solid ink, doesn't take up much desk space
Cons: limited paper size & weight

I had been drooling over color laser printers for some time but they were entirely out of my budget. I stumbled over a truly wonderful promotional offer involving the Tektronix Phaser 850 laser printer and applied for the program. I was accepted and I...

Pros: Incredible quality and value
Cons: Wax technology makes photocopying difficult

This is some printer. But it's not for the faint of heart or weak of pocketbook. This printer will set you back anywhere from the suggested price reported by epinions ($3,750) to a little more than $4,500 (which my company paid). Don't get this for...

Pros: Very fast, great quality, Ethernet ready,
Cons: If you jab your nail into the paper you can scrape off the ink, but how often are you going to do that.

Well where do I start with the printer. It has so many positive features and extras that I am not quite sure where to start, but I will do my best. This printer works like no other in the world. It uses solid it which looks like wax, and for the...

Pros: Fast, Great color, Easy setup, Intelligent Ready, MUCH easier maintenance, expandability
Cons: Long warmup time, wastes some ink on powerON, no paper stop at end of output tray

Laser printers have always had the sharpest text, but no color. Inkjet has color, (often in near-photo quality), but is s.l..o...w... Color laser printers are a good intermediary if you don't mind heavy maintenance.
Enter the Phaser 850. Using...

Pros: Extremely versatile. Great Ink system and yield capacity. tremedous printer altogether.
Cons: expensive. not to excited about the maintence system costs. jams.

This is your all world laser printer. It is expensive but hey, if you've got $3700 then don't worry about it. You'll definitley get greater ink yield out of the solid ink system and you wont have to spend a ton to get it either.

It handles @...

Pros: solid ink (no fuser crap, etc.), fast, GREAT quality, FREE black ink for life!
Cons: annoying power save feature and slow warm-up, lack of support for larger paper sizes (tabloid).

-- I ORIGINALLY WROTE THIS ALMOST TWO YEARS AGO, BUT FORGOT TO HIT "PUBLISH!" HERE YOU GO NOW --

Have had my Tektronix 850DP for about 6 months now. Love it! Was originally concerned that the wax would easily scratch off of printed items,...

Pros: Fantastic output, real workhorse
Cons: Xerox has truly horrible warranty service

As a printer the Phaser is truly superb. I've got the 850N upgraded to the DP feature set. I cannot say enough good things about this printer.

Paper feeding is flawless.

Networking was a no brainer, and the network support software...

Pros: Beautiful color and photo prints!
Cons: You can't do ANYTHING with what you've printed.

I received this printer FREE of charge from the Xerox free color printer program. As long as you maintain a monthly print capacity (approx. 2500 pages) and buy your ink only from Xerox then the printer is yours.

I'll get to the ink and...

Pros: high quality color + free black ink sticks
Cons: cost of color ink sticks + low speed

We purchased this printer for our office, since we needed to print high quality color handouts. The idea was to make custom brochures for each potential customer, so offset printing was out of the question.

So, we considered getting a color...

Pros: Great colour
Cons: Service Support very poor

I recently purchased a Tektronix 850 from my local dealer after much researching. I wanted a reliable and top quality colour printer for proofing & short run printing. According to all the ads and reviews I read it seemed to fit the bill very well. High...