Brilliant, professional color output. Solid ink color is truer,
more saturated and remarkably consistent, page after page, on
virtually any media.
Incredibly priced to give you the competitive edge of color for
about the cost of a black-only network printer.
Up to 5 seconds to your first page. It's the fastest
first-page-out speed of any color printer in its class. Most print
jobs are complete before the competition's first page is delivered.
Features that are normally optional come standard. Namely,
networking, true Adobe® Postscript® 3™, automated troubleshooting
and job accounting. Plus, on the Phaser 8550 you get advanced paper
handling features such as automatic 2-sided printing, collation and
booklet printing.
Full-page color at up to 24 / 30 ppm means you're never kept
waiting for even the largest jobs to print.
Built around a high-speed 600 MHz PowerPC processor, with up to
1 GB memory, true Adobe PostScript 3, and an available hard drive
for ultimate productivity and performance.
Unique single pass Solid Ink color
technology only offered by Xerox
Lowest Printer Price in its class, allows you to buy
a high-speed-feature-packed printer at a great price.
Fast Color Mode uses less ink and still gives you
great quality.
Usage Analysis Tool allows administrators to monitor
usage and control printing if necessary.
Features that Save Time
One-touch Phaser Installer allows you to go to the
printer, touch a button, and let it install itself.
Intuitive print driver displays print options from all
trays and applications.
PrintingScoutâ„¢ provides instant, on-screen instructions
when the printer needs attention throughout the entire print job.
PhaserSMARTâ„¢ provides online troubleshooting to get you
back to work fast.
CentreWare® embedded Web server allows you to manage,
configure, and troubleshoot the Phaser 8500 and 8550 from the
desktop.
Support Centre provides easy access to all user
documentation, tools and utilities electronically.
Features that Ensure the Highest Color Quality
Solid Ink technology, an alternative to laser printing,
provides a truer, more saturated, and remarkably consistent images,
on virtually any printing surface.
Automatic Color Correction applies the best print method
to each element on a page (text vs. graphics vs. photos) to
eliminate compromise between text and graphics quality.
Photo mode offers an incredible rich, image-enhancing
color control.
Driver Color Control to better match the colors seen on
your monitor.
Features that Simplify Printing
Productivity Kit includes Personal Print, Secure Print,
Proof Print, Saved Print, Extended Collation and Extended Font
Storage with a 20GB hard drive.
Personal Print, a new feature that creates a personal
mailbox on the printer's hard drive where you can store processed
print jobs to be printed on demand quickly via the control panel.
Proof print produces only one copy of a multiple copy job
in order to proof the copy before printing the rest. You can print
the remaining copies right from the printer front panel.
Secure Print protects your confidential documents
requiring a password entry at the printer before printing.
Saved Print stores the job on the printer's hard drive so
you can print it on demand.
N-Up Printing enables printing of more than one page on a
single sheet. One-up, two-up or as many as 16-up printing on the
same page. This environmentally friendly feature decreases the
consumption of paper and ink.
Cover Sheets allows you to feed the first and last page
of the document from a different media tray.
Separation pages allows you to separate print jobs with
blank sheets, making it easier to see where one job ends and the
next begins.
Collation allows you to print multiple copies of
multiple-page documents in the correct numerical sequence.
AutoFit automatically scales a page to best fit the sheet
size of the media in the designated input tray.
Watermark provides the ability to print text, such as
"Draft" or "Confidential," in the background of every page of a
document.
Job Pipelining allows the printer to process multiple
jobs at the same time.
Auto 2-sided printing allows you to print on both sides
of the paper without reloading sheets.
Booklet Printing reduces the size of each page by 50% and
prints two pages pre sheet. It prints the pages in the correct order
so the document can be folded and stapled to from a booklet.