If you have a Xerox Phaser 850, Phaser 860, Phaser 8200, Phaser 8400, Phaser 8500, Phaser 8550, Phaser 8560 or a Phaser 8860 printer, then this post is for you! If you own a standard color laser printer, this post is not for you. I wanted to go over a quirky part of the Xerox technology you need to understand about the Xerox machines if you happen to own one of them.
The Phaser series which are wax based printers (there are also laser based Phaser units), basically take a crayon, melt it, spray it, press it and send it out. When the printer is turned on, it melts enough wax to fill the resevior for each color. When the printer is turned off, it empties the resevoir into the waste tray. This means the printer was designed to STAY ON at all times. If you power it off, to be green, you will be wasting a lot of perfectly good supplies. The cost per print is already high enough that you don’t need to make it worse on yourself!
So, if you have one of these Phaser units, make sure you keep it on. If you have your ink box, the part number would match one of the following part numbers to have this post apply.
Xerox Phaser 850 — 016-1825-00; 016-1826-00; 016-1827-00; 016-1831-00
Xerox Phaser 860 — 013-0299-00; 436-4309-00; 436-4311-00; 046-4313-00
Xerox Phaser 8200 — 016-2040-00; 016-2041-00; 016-2042-00; 016-2043-00; 016-2044-00; 016-2045-00; 016-2046-00; 016-2047-00
Xerox Phaser 8400 — 108R00604; 108R00605; 108R00606; 108R00607; 108R00608
Xerox Phaser 8500/8550 — 108R00668; 108R00669; 108R00670; 108R00671; 108R00672; 108R00688;
Xerox Phaser 8560 — 108R00723; 108R00724; 108R00725; 108R00726; 108R00727
Xerox Phaser 8860 — 108R00746; 108R00747; 108R00748; 108R00749
Xerox Phaser C2424 — 108R00660; 108R00661; 108R00662; 108R00663; 108R00664
All of the machines above SHOULD NOT be powered off and on all the time! If you follow this tip, you will save TONS on your wax ink costs!
