XEROX Phaser 6010/N Personal Up to 15 ppm Up to 600 x 600 x 4 dpi Color Print Quality Color Laser Printer

Pros: Very simple to set up and use out of the box. Color prints are very nice, and text is sharp and clear. The small footprint helps a lot. And the LED laser engine should be power saver as well.

Cons: As with all printers, the toner cartridges are a smaller (starter) type. Sure wish printer manufacturers would change this practice given how expensive the replacement toners are!

Other Thoughts: I had an HP 2600n prior to this one which I liked really well, but pruchased knock-off toner for it - paid the price as the printer was pretty much junk after that. Will always purchase the manufacturers replacement toner from now on, even at three times the price!

Pros: Pros: Cost $199. The toner cartridges will probably negate that in a few months. the printer is very quiet when it's not printing - no fan noise.

Cons: The 64 linux drivers are non existent. Xerox keeps the drivers on their website - so you won't find them in your linux distro. For a 64 bit OS, they simply don't work. Being as every desktop is now 64 bit, this makes this product unusable. If you have access to another computer, install a 32 bit linux on is and set that one up as a print server. Then use the generic 64 bit driver in your linux distribution, and sent the print jobs to that 32 bit computer. It's an expensive hack - but it does work.

The paper bin has to stay open always. The paper is not in a tray that slides under the printer - there is a flap on the front that is down all the time. If that is the way the printer always looks, why does the picture of the printer have the flap up. A bit of false advertising.

Other Thoughts: the driver situation makes the out of box experience for this thing pretty lousy. you don't want to spend hours on google trying to make your new printer work.

Pros: Suprisingly good color. I was expecting good document, but poor photo. Don't get me wrong, the photos aren't great, but passable for such a cheap printer. It works well in Linux, a major requirement for me.

Cons: The linux drivers are not included by default in Ubuntu 12.04. This usually means the manufacturer is over stingy with the licensing, as I'm sure Ubuntu would rather support as printers out of the box as possible. A quick google solved that though.

The toner on the color cartridges ran out alarmingly fast for a laser printer. They aren't very big, so maybe that's normal. I've experienced printers before that only provide a starter ink cartridge out of the box, but last longer on full-price replacements. Hopefully that's the case here, or else I'll be pretty disappointed in the toner life. And the toner doesn't appear to be cheap!

Other Thoughts: Decent printer, decent speed, not overly fast, but decent. I only hope the replacement toner I have on order lasts longer.

Pros: This printed great when it arrived, and then the ink ran out.

Cons: Replaced the ink with brand new Xerox brand ink, the printer rejected it and gave me error codes saying the toner was invalid. After going back and forth with Xerox tech in email to trouble shoot, they decided to send me a replacement. The replacement was refurbished (mine is still brand new, and this is the first time I replaced the toner). In order to get the quick replacement, you have to put $100 on hold with Xerox via credit card, to ensure you send the original back within 10 days of receiving the new one...if you don't send it back they charge you the $100. They don't send a return slip with the replacement. You have to call them to get it. My replacement arrived Friday. It's now Tuesday, and no one is answering the phone or returning my call or email so I can ship the original printer back in time.

Meanwhile...the replacement...it doesn't work either. Every print is inconsistent, some pages coming out almost completely blank. When it does print, I get two thick lines across the paper.

Another bunch of emails between Xerox tech support and myself ensue. Solution? They want to replace it with another quick exchange...but I'm still waiting to see if anyone is going to contact me before the 10 day deadline is up so I don't get charged $100 for not returning the first printer in time.

Even if the 3rd time is a charm...the headache really isn't worth it, but for now, I'm still playing the patience game, and crossing my fingers that this will all get sorted out in the end.

Other Thoughts: This is my first time dealing with Xerox...and I am extremely disappointed in their customer service and tech support. As well as the product. If a product doesn't work and it's brand new, you should get a brand new replacement...and if they expect you to ship the original back in a timely manner, they should send the return slip in the box, or give you a longer deadline than 10 days if they aren't going to make a real effort to help ensure you can return the product within' 10 days. It feels like they are drawing this out so they can rip me off for $100.

Angry? Frustrated? Completely. My project deadline is way overdue, and the time I've spent with emails and phone calls has turned this last week and a half into a nightmare.

Pros: Very fast, very quiet and very very good value for money. The printouts are excellent.

I picked it up for $140; and even though I didn't need a color printer per se, I could not pass that option up.

And I am so glad that I didn't. It has already proven its utility when we had to take several color printouts for our son'
s school project.

The printer itself is neat and clean. Documents are stunning and photos are practically useable.


good printouts
I think at $200 it is a very good deal; but for me, it was amazing value
In some amazing deal, I got it for $140. I had no need for a color printer; but I just could not pass up the chance to get one for $140. And soon after, my son's school project came up that required some color printouts; and looking at that usage; I realized that it was a

Cons: 1. Loading mechanism seems a bit convoluted but not an issue.
2. So far haven't figured out if it will print out on 4x6 photo cards. It probably would, but the point is that it is not apparently obvious how to make that setting. The documentation could be better.

Other Thoughts: 1. Coming from a inkjet, photo printer; you will be amazingly surprised to get a color printout so quickly!
2. They are cheap compared to inkjets; so you can actually test it to your heart's content.
3. Understand that this is not supposed to be a photo printer. Its quality just would not match that of a photo printer. That said, the pictures are 90% good enough. Unless you are creating a portfolio, you can use this printer to create printouts of photos with great results. After doing our son's school project, we consider this money well spent.
4. Another excellent use is for testing 8"x11" (possibly larger) printouts of photos on the cheap. That way you get to see which photos will eventually come out good. I find this use indispensable.

Pros: Quiet
Easy to setup/use
Excellent print quality

Cons: Slow (in comparison to other laser/office printers)

Other Thoughts: Prior to this I owned a Xerox Phaser 8400 printer that printed at twice the pages/min as this printer. Will say the 6010 does start up quicker so faster to print 1 or 2 pages. I use this as my home printer and think it'd make a good secondary printer for an office. I also like how easy it is to setup on a network and agree the built in interface isn't very helpful for doing a static IP setup but I handle that via my network gateway via DHCP so isn't an issue for me.

Pros: Ignore the DOA review below. Printer actually worked fine, I just didn't get power to it correctly. Prints great. Quality is sharp and prints at rated speed once it comes out of power save.

Cons: Documentation is somewhat lacking on setting up a static IP, but was easy to figure out.

Other Thoughts: Have not yet tried to print any photos on photo paper, but that was not what my primary motivation in getting the printer was. For what you get in this printer, the $199 price was pretty sweet.

Pros: Quite. Great photo quality and color. So much faster that an standard photo printer! Crisp text. Installed on my Mac painlessly and I was printing within minutes.

Cons: No USB cord, but I just used the one from my old Canon printer.

Other Thoughts: I am so happy I bought this printer on sale! My previous Canon Pixma photo printer was such a hassle. If I didn't use my printer for a couple of weeks, the ink would just dry up and that is such a waste of money! Color matching was a nightmare too. I should have tossed it months ago.

I've been using the Phaser 6010N for photos and to soft proof the catalog I'm designing... everything looks great! I spent a few days online researching Xerox, Brother, HP and Samsung printers and finally settled on this one. It's a great choice, especially after reading the problems people were having with the color issues with Brother lasers. The print lab at my university had a Phaser and a large format Epson, and I remember a lot of the students preferred printing out their design projects on the Phaser because the quality was great and the price was a fraction of the Epson.

Pros: Quiet because it won't power on.

Cons: Won't turn on. Tried different power cords, different outlets, etc. No noise, no lights, nada.

Pros: Extremely easy to setup. Works great with Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.8. I read a review that someone had issues with Mac drivers for 10.8, but I had no issues at all. Everything was installed off the CD. Was really impressed with level of diagnostics available with printer. I purchased this printer because my old samsung died after 2 years and trying to see why it died was frustrating and pointless. Not Xerox, the printer software allows you to fully test nearly everything in the printer that moves. Love the diagnostic capabilities. Was a little skeptical about the LED print engine vs the a traditional laser, but have no complaints so far. Will be curious to see how it holds up over time.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: As for speed, it "only" prints 15 ppm. Last I checked, thats means it prints a page in 4 seconds. If you want to spend $100's of dollars more for a printer that prints 20 ppm, which is a page every 3 seconds, go ahead. I'll be waiting 1 seconds per page and save the money.