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Xerox Phaser color printer offer from ADC

updated 09:10 am EDT, Wed April 10, 2002

 
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Xerox FreeColorPrinters.com, in conjunction with the Apple Developer Connection, is offering ADC Premier and Select members the opportunity to receive a free, high-performance Xerox Phaser color printer. The network color printers (with a retail value of US$ 4,500) can print up to 16 color pages a minute. Applicants must fill out an online application on or before April 15 (using the program code, 'AAPL021') and must agree to maintain the monthly print volume estimates in the application, and must buy ink directly from FreeColorPrinters.com.


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    1st POST, BOOH YEAH!!!

    Either you have to buy enough ink and paper at prices high enough to make it worth their while, or this offer/company won't last too long. Anyone remember free PC's?

    -the 'BOOH YEAH' guy

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    04/10, 09:47am | report spam | Reply |

    Duh

    This is color laser. You're going to end up spending a mint on ink and maintainance supplies.

  1. syndicomm

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    FreeColorPrinter

    I joined this program the last time Apple did this promotion a year and a half ago, and I've absolutely loved it. The printer is great, and Xerox's prices on the ink are actually better than I've found anywhere else (although their shipping is a tad high). The black ink is free (aside from shipping).

    The color ink isn't cheap; it runs around $80 to buy a two-pack of each folor of ink, but since each color (cyan, magenta, and yellow) is separate, you don't waste any, and it lasts a pretty long time under normal usage.

    This is a serious workgroup printer. It's fast, does duplex printing out of the box (ie, two-sided printing), has two paper trays (and you can add a third, although they're expensive), and is generally designed to handle a lot of throughput. We can plop an entire ream of paper into the bottom tray, and we keep a half ream of 3-hole punched paper in the smaller upper tray. The output tray can handle a whole ream of paper for when we're printing a book.

    We can print a 1,000 page book on 20# paper, two-sided, in just a couple of hours.

    The printer has USB, parallel, and Ethernet interfaces, and on the ethernet side, it supports EtherTalk, LPR, and even FTP -- you can FTP files to it for printing. The printer will email you when it's low on ink, or out of paper, or is jammed, or when it's time to perform any kind of maintenance.

    The down sides to the printer are very few: it's quite large and heavy -- it comes in a crate that's quite a few feet tall and wide, and you have to keep all that packing material until the three-year contract is up. Also, the printer is fairly loud when it's running (my wife calls it a "truck" but I think it sounds more like a small jet).

    The program doesn't seem to have much of a down side either. If you don't meet your printing quota in a given month, you get charged a fee. We've never missed our quota (which you set yourself, by the way). You have to make the monthly quota every month for three years; after that, the printer is yours to do with as you please. You can quit the program at any time, and you just return the printer (which is why you have to keep all that packing material).

    The printer works like a champ with every machine we've tried it on, including Mac OS 8.1 through 9.2.2, Mac OS X, BeOS, and even our old Apple IIgs using the LaserWriter driver. It also works fine from Windows 95 and Windows 2000.

    From what we can see, this program's main point is to spread word-of-mouth on these printers, to get them into offices that lean heavily toward HP hardware, rather than to make money off the person using the free printer.

    Anyway, thought it would be useful to have some thoughts from somebody that's been using one of these printers, and this program, for a while.

    Oh, just to add: our monthly quota is 288 pages, 75 of whic

  1. syndicomm

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    Whoops

    Just got over that 3000 mark. To finish...

    Our monthly quota is 288 pages, 75 of which must be color. The amount of color doesn't matter; just printing our emails with links in color counts.

    Eric Shepherd
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    Re: Whoops

    Eric,

    Thanks for the very detailed message about your experiences with the free printer deal.

    Just curious--what is your monthly outlay in printing supplies? Do you consider this program affordable?

    Thanks!

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    re: Whoops

    I've paid about $500 for ink and one maintenance kit in the past year and a half.

    Eric Shepherd
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    monthly quota

    The information on Xerox FreeColorPrinters.com mentioned a monthly quota of between 2000 and 4000 copies a month. It sounds like things have changed since Eric joined the program. Another thing to consider is this printer does not print Tabloid .

  1. syndicomm

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    Quota

    Well, the thing is that Apple's sponsorship of this program means you get guaranteed entry into the program, even if the page count you specify when you sign up is outside their normal preferred range.

    If it weren't for the fact that I was an ADC Select member, I wouldn't have been accepted at 288 pages per month.

    Eric Shepherd
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  1. the cubed

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    Re: 1st POST, BOOH YEAH!!

    >>>>>Either you have to buy enough ink and paper at prices high enough to make it worth their while, or this offer/company won't last too long. Anyone remember free PC's? >>>>>

    Well, I think you may be waiting a while as Xerox would have to go out of business....Plus they've been doing it for over 2 years.

    CUBE

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    Re: 1st POST, BOOH YEAH!

    You don't have to buy the paper from Xerox, you only have to buy the ink and maintenance kit.

    I've been in this program for about 1-1/2 years now and it's great.

    My quota is 2500 a month and I surpass it each time. I've had to order ink twice and a maintenance kit once.

    I had to call repair only once and that was when I received it because something came loose during shipping.

    IMO it's worth it.

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