XEROX Phaser 6500/DN Workgroup Up to 24 ppm 600 x 600 dpi Color Print Quality Color Laser Printer

Pros: + Automatic duplexing
+ Ethernet
+ Color
+ Speed
+ Expandable memory

Cons: - Color lasers are still expensive to buy and supply.
- Transparencies are not supported.

Other Thoughts: Overall, I'm very happy with the purchase. The printer has good quality output and speed and I've had no issues with drivers under Linux or Windows. As far as noise, its far from silent but reasonable for the job and speed at which it does it.

Pros: Very good print quality in this price range for a range of document types. My wife was in commercial print production for 20 years and has a more discerning eye than mine. She likes the Xerox more than our Konica Minolta 1690. We had a Minolta 2250 fail under only light use at home. So far the Xerox has done well.

Cons: Prints slower than expected from a large color photo submitted by our iMac 2013. Might be the LPD based network protocol used. We hear that HP JetDirect based protocol is faster in a CUPS print subsystem, but haven't tested that fully yet.

Other Thoughts: Quiet when idle, fans go to sleep. Purchased from newegg in June 2012.

Pros: Great price from Newegg when purchased under one of their quick deals last week!
Print quality has been good for my first 50 documents, alignment on page is good as well. Most color laser printers I have used in the past have issues with lining up margins correctly.
I have been very surprised with photo and graphic prints, quality it way better than I would have guessed.
Toner from online third parties is very reasonable.
Document prints are fast even with some graphics within the text.

Cons: Loud fans and mechanics in the printer while printing.
Fans at idle are louder than most desktop and tower computers (annoying white noise).
Not a quiet printer!
Printing little red dots up the length of my paper on every page!
Seems to be a power hog while printing. Going to hook up to my watt meter to be sure, but lights dim in my office when I print.
Memory Upgrade options seem over priced.

Other Thoughts: Tested printing in black only and still a couple of red dots appeared. I would guess that a cleaning is in order? Calling tech support for help or returning for replacement. I shouldn't need to purchase a cleaning kit for a new laser printer.

Pros: Beautiful printing and photos. Don't buy a dot matrix--they don't last, and feeding them ink will eat you out of house and home. I had a 6120 before this, the ink lasted 4 YEARS. Duplexer to print two sides is very, very cool.

Cons: I haven't tried off-brand ram sticks yet. Looks like it takes DDR3 laptop memory. Xerox wants a stupid price for it.

Other Thoughts: Costs more up front, but saves you $$$$ on the ink over an ink jet.

Pros: Duplexer kit - Takes all of about 10 seconds to install.
Generic Toner cartridges are available out there
Runs on gigabit although this is not a huge deal.

Cons: Memory sucks, I replaced my 6130/N Phaser with the 6500/DN Phaser so I could do duplexing and add an extra paper tray but I gave up memory. I am part of a home school group so 256Mb is not enough for our printer load on some days. Try printing out two textbooks at the same time... ugh.
I was going to expand the base memory like I did with my old printer but the 6500 uses an odd set of RAM and I refuse to pay $150 for 512Mb of memory.. That is a insane price for an older memory stick from Xerox.

Other Thoughts: If you do not have a heavy printer load or if you do not print HUGE files, this is a very good printer.

I would recommend Xerox to anyone, both of my Phaser printers have been great and run as they should.

I reduced this system the 1 egg becuase of the memory issue.

Pros: My old Xerox 6130 committed sucide while printing my tax forms this year so I bought the 6500. This new one is faster and with the duplexer, it saves paper as it prints to both sides of the paper. The colors are brighter and easier to hook up on the network than the old printer was. Physical set up was also a breeze follow the instructions and you will be printing in no time.

Cons: None

Pros: Excellent quality/price balance
Auto-duplexing
Fast printing
Built-in networking
Cheap toner (3rd party brands available)

Cons: -Duplexer ships as separate unit (same package) must be installed
-A little bulky (to be expected)
-Took a bit of configuration to get aligned and printing colors properly

Other Thoughts: Duplexer was installed in 5 mins. flat, and the calibration/color alignment took me about 20 mins to get spot-on. I am an IT guy so it wasn't really too hard for me, but I think the average person may have a few issues with calibration, maybe even the duplexer. However, once all is working correctly, this thing delivers without a doubt.

If you hate the horrible quality and service associated with the big 2 letter brand these days, join the club. Xerox is a great alternative at a very reasonable price.