Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer

by Xerox

Product Details

• Item Weight: 99 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 96 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000CNZ9F
• Item model number: 6250/N
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 9, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Xerox Phaser 6250N color laser printer offers powerful printing with lots of options for expandability. Featuring up to 26 ppm printing in both black and color, the 6250N offers photo, enhanced 2,400 dpi, and draft 600 dpi modes. Driven by a powerful 700 MHz PowerPC processor and 256 MB memory standard (expandable to 512 MB), the unit requires less than 12 seconds for first page out and can keep up with even large print jobs.

The Phaser 6250N offers versatile connectivity--USB 2.0, parallel, and 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet--and paper handling, with room to grow. Standard are a 500-sheet tray and a 100-sheet multipurpose tray. These can be expanded to include duplexing and a hefty input capacity of up to 2,100 sheets. The Xerox Phaser 6250N is backed by a one-year on-site warranty.

What's in the Box
Xerox Phaser 6250N, power cable, paper trays, paper guides, transfer roller, fuser, imaging unit, set of toner cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black), 10/100 BaseTX Ethernet module, driver CD-ROM, user guide, quick reference, warranty information

Product Description

An advanced laser printer that can keep up with the nonstop pace of your office - with fast speed, accurate color and efficient tools that make printing easier than ever. Your office will notice the speed and power advantage immediately. Even with heavy network traffic and complex print jobs in the queue, you get your output fast. Your printed output has never looked better. Standout laser quality makes every element on your page communicate with depth and richness. Print up to 26 ppm high-resolution full color and get crisp black and white at the same rapid speed. The performance driven 700 MHz PowerPC processor speeds through more print jobs in less time. Up to 512 MB RAM and an available hard drive add even more productivity. In less than 12 seconds your first page is in the output tray waiting for you. With instant wake-up, the Phaser 6250 comes out of power-saving mode in seconds, ready to print. It does double duty as both a black-and white and color printer. The Phaser 6250 can continue to print in black-and-white when a color toner is empty. Print brilliant, precise 2400 dpi color right "out of the box". Incredibly rich, image-enhancing Photo mode (at 26 ppm) and economical Toner-saving mode give you more print options. True Adobe PostScript 3 and color that is optimized for the most common office uses deliver the results you expect the first time, every time. The fine-tuned single-pass print system improves registration, while automatic calibration keeps color pure and consistent over long print runs

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Man, this rocks in my Panther 10.3.3 Mac office, April 2, 2004

By 

Scott Ohlgren "Scott Ohlgren" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

A few months ago, I got tired of USB color inkjet printers. I was starting to need 100-200 color flyers at a time, maybe 1000 sheets a month, and the USBs were sinking under those kinds of demands. So, I started looking around for my first color laser printer.

Not so easy, given that they world of color laser jets is rapidly changing. Unlike inkjets, where "they're all the same", companies like Xerox, HP, and Canon are wanting to capture the growing market of home-owned CLJs, and are each experimenting with new technologies, ranging from solid wax ink, to new internal engines, etc. It's not an easy choice to navigate.

I basically searched the Net for customer reviews, using Amazon and the other places where end users post their likes and rants. In the end, it was a flip of the coin that made me choose the Xerox Phaser 6250N. I was able to get an open box from some company in Colorado, and paid just under two thousand.

I've now had the 6250N for a full month of usage. I've printed over 1500 copies. Some thoughts:

** The thing rocks. You know those pieces of technology you own that make you want to clap each time you use them? This is how it is with this guy.

** 26 pages per minute. I've timed it. I've actually had friends come over to just watch it churn out that many pages in a minute. This is with ANY page I throw at it, be it strictly text, or a full color flyer that doesn't have a speck of white paper left on it. No more waiting.

** I was afraid of two things: the noise and the smell. Smell: none. Can't smell a thing, and I have a dog's nose regarding anything chemical (I can smell from 4 feet away if a women is using chemical-laden perfumes, vs essential oil). Noise: during printing, it's not bad, it's actually kind of a pleasant noise, churning out each sheet. For awhile after each job, though, it makes an unpleasant ennnngggghhhh noise. Eventually, it turns itself off (10 to 30 minutes), but I haven't figured out how to get it to sleep quicker. I almost think there's some kind of internal heat sensor, just like a Mac: if it's hot, it turns on the ennngggh fan. If it's cool, it goes quiet. My only fix is to walk over and turn it off.

** It's big, not as small or lightweight as the old USB inkjets. It's 25" long, by 17x17". It's also heavy, probably 75 pounds. Not a big deal, but it's a shock the first time you pull it out of the box. No more tucking the thing under a desk.

** It holds 650 sheets. This means you can put an entire ream of paper in it. Holy moly, why didn't someone else think of this before? No more guessing how much it'll hold. Just grab a ream and stuff it in there.

** The ink system is a sight to behold. Located right there on top, under an opaque plastic cover, four round cylinders sit locked in with a 1/4 twist. Once they're empty, you twist in the opposite direction, lift it out, pop in a new cylinder, give it the 1/4 twist, and THAT's IT. No opening a door, no guessing whether you did it right, etc. It's one of the features that get an audible wow from friends. (side note: I have two friends who are really close to dumping their USBs and getting this thing, just by watching it work).

** Ethernet cable connection!!! Ahh, man. I think I would buy this for no other reason than to dump one more USB connection. For a mouse, fine, but my experience with USB is that it's really not that great, at least for the amt of data that a printer needs. When I click a "PRINT" button, I hear the 6250 wind up well under 1 second. That's amazing to me. Even on pretty large posters and flyers (with heavy graphics), the first flyer starts printing within 5-10 seconds. If it's straight text, it'll start printing within 3 seconds. 26 pages per minute.

** Speaking of Ethernet cable: wireless printing, from anywhere in the house. This has been a godsend to my wife, who used to always bug me about printing files from her iBook. Last night, she printed 20 flyers from the kitchen, wirelessly to the 6250 about 60 feet away. Is this a great time to be alive or what.

** About once every 3 days or 20 print jobs, the 6250N doesn't see my print job. I have yet to figure out what the deal is, but I use the idiot's version of tech knowledge: I power down and power up the printer. So far, that always fixes the problem. This may not be a printer thing, but an End User Thing. I may be doing something wrong.

** I haven't figure out how to get it to stop printing its internal Welcome/Startup page every time I turn the printer back on. Not a big deal, but who needs to waste paper and ink. Perhaps its a setting I can turn off.

** Ink prices: the first time you buy a set of 4 high capacity ink cylinders and fork out $650, you have to remind yourself of the "price-per-page" thing. Otherwise, it's a shock. In the Xerox Phaser's case, high capacity says 8,000 pages. Given that that is probably not an accurate number, I'm guessing more like 4,000 pages. That turns out to be about 16¢ a page. That's a number that I can live with.

** Software works seamlessly with Panther 10.3.3.

To wrap this up: I love this thing. I can't say enough good about it. After dealing with inkjets for 8 years, I am glad I bit the Visa bullet and spent the dough.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Significant paper handling flaw, February 2, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

After much research, product samples, reading many reviews and correspondence with Xerox support staff, I decided to purchase the Xerox Phaser 6250 to use for printing greeting cards, postcards, business cards and similar items requiring a heavy card stock of 160 gsm or greater (approximately 65 lb. cover stock or greater). Xerox rates the capacity of the Phaser 6250 at 216 gsm (approximately 80 lb. cover stock). Unfortunately, after using this product, I learned from actual use, and had this confirmed by Xerox technical staff, that using "any paper that is 160 gsm or heavier may cause severe curling of the paper. We recommend changing the paper to a lighter paper-weight". I cannot over-emphasize the severity of the paper curling. This renders the product useless for printing items such as business cards, greeting cards, postcards and some of the other in-house printing jobs for which one would purchase this product.

This is a significant flaw which Xerox confirms. Do not purchase this product if it is to be used to print on heavy-weight card stock.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good printer, attractive design, flawed paper-handling system, June 18, 2006

By 

Thomas S. (The Real LA, on the South Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xerox Phaser 6250/N Network Color Laser Printer (Office Product)

This printer is much more attractive than the hideously blocky or overly bulky HP printers. But thats not why you buy a printer. I've used mine for about 1.5 years now and the print quality is great for documents, graphic arts, and some simple cards, cd-labels, business cards. Its not a photo printer - no laser is to date - specialty inkjet is still the way to go there.

The achilles heal of this printer is the paper handling. The engineering design cut a corner somewhere when they went from the 6200 to the 6250 that impacts the paper feed path. If you use the cheapest copier paper, the thin stuff, there are no issues... though that could just be coincidence. The problem appears to be a motor that is part of the printer, that drives the registration rollers... to replace that part, the entire printer must be disassembled (ie its not a standard replacement part). When comming out of warmup, that motor cannot get the final transfer roll (on the front pivoting door) moving. Either the motor is cheaper (has a dead spot without enough torque) or the gearing has such a spot, or the rollers have issues, but the combination of parts results in that last roller not getting moving when it should - it just sticks. The result, when the sheet gets there it jams. The tech, who was out twice to work the problem over 7 months, indicated it was an issue he has seen a lot with the 6250, but not the 6200. THe two are practically identical printers, design and mechanically.

If the paper handling were not a concern (maybe it only happens if the room is cold - as my instances of problems occur in January-March), then I'd almost give this a 5 star rating - but the annoyance of getting paper jams so often, when there is a problem, are a HUGE issue for a $2000 printer.

I have the N version - network - which is great. I picked up the expanded paper tray - so with 3 full trays you have plenty of paper options (legal, + letter, + heavy-letter). If I needed the hard drive, dropping it in would be easy - but you only need that for coallating. The coallating happens on the printer - so your computer can send the job and get back to do what you need it to do (rather than having to repeatedly send specific pages to the printer). As the Mac guy said, you could do collation on the computer with software - but thats what the low-end sub$1000 printers do and not why one buys this class of printers.

To the startup-page guy - don't turn off the printer. If you power it up, it gives you a page of status - thats what they do. Set the powersave mode to the right level and leave the printer on - it goes to powersave mode when not used - and is not drawing much power. THes are printers not designed to be turned on when you need them.

Too bad Xerox hosed up the paper handling. All that to save a few bucks - or because of a HUGE screwup in testing or design. Someone dropped the ball and it will take Xerox a long time to recover the reputation from this screw up!