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8 Small-Business-Class Color Printers and Multifunction Printers Evaluator Guide
Evaluating Output Quality
When evaluating the output quality
delivered by the small-business-class color
printers and multifunction printers, first
determine the types of documents you most
frequently produce.
Do you need color output for simple,
non-business critical documents, or is your
goal to produce color business collaterals
in-house, such as pamphlets, newsletters
and flyers?
Xerox leads the color printing industry,
delivering unrivaled print quality through more
than 20 years of technology innovations.
Xerox
®
color printers and multifunction printers
provide all
the benefits of black-and-white performance,
plus the competitive advantage of color when
your work demands it.
The following describes the print-quality
attributes and features of the Xerox
®
small-business-class of color printers
and multifunction printers.
XEROX BUILT-IN COLOR
TECHNOLOGIES
Xerox
®
EA Toner
Award-winning, Xerox exclusive EA toner,
chemically grown to produce the market’s
most uniformly shaped particles, delivers
sharper clarity, excellent shadowing and
outstanding fine-line detail. It’s the same
toner used by our high-end, large-
workgroup-class color printers and
multifunction devices.
Automatic Color Correction
The automatic color correction technology
selects the best color settings based on the
print job’s content to ensure beautiful,
accurate color with every print.
Color Adjustment and Calibration Tools
Xerox print drivers feature intuitive controls
for adjusting and calibrating color output,
giving you greater control over the
appearance of your color print jobs.
INDUSTRY-STANDARD COLOR
SPECIFICATIONS / TOOLS
Resolution
Print resolution capability is typically
measured in dots per inch (dpi). However,
a laser “dot” can behave differently
depending on the printer. For example,
the Xerox
®
VersaLink
®
C400 and Xerox
®
VersaLink
®
C405 (covered in this guide)
deliver up to 600 x 600 x 8 dpi, which
produces an amazing 16 shades of color per
pixel. Even though other devices offer higher
resolutions, many factors contribute to the
print quality. The color tables applied to the
print engine, the achievable color gamut
and color correction profiles all influence the
printed output. Other factors, including the
presence or absence of the features that
follow, also impact print quality.
PANTONE
®
Color
The PANTONE Matching System is the
definitive international reference for
selecting, specifying, matching and
controlling ink colors. Xerox
®
printers and
multifunction printers with PANTONE Color
calibrated solid-color simulations enable
output to closely approximate predefined
colors in a Pantone color table. This ensures
that printed colors consistently match your
intended output, which is critical when
printing important documents such as
letterhead with color company logos.
Adobe
®
PostScript
®
3
™
PostScript is a page description language
that acts as an interpreter inside the
printer or multifunction printer. With true
Adobe
®
PostScript
®
3
™
print language, your
documents are printed with the utmost
brightness and the truest possible colors
and graphics.
Take a look at available color tools and
technologies to improve your output.