Recent content by Island

Sorry Steve - I didn't see your message until now as I was up to my neck in work. I took a shot in the dark, and lucked out. I didn't think it would work but I reapplied the original three patches which I had originally applied in 12/08 (the latest ones available on the xerox site.) After...

Suddenly my docucolor 242 is printing stretched output when I print to 12x18 heavy1 or plain from either tray 6 (oversize high capacity feeder) or tray 5 (bypass tray.) Oddly it started doing this on heavy1 only (but was fine on coated1 or plain1.) I thought it was an isolated glitch, but now...

The print samples I was shown when I was considering buying one didn't look good at all to my eye. Looked good on matte, but the gloss stock print samples didn't look even at all to my eye - toner was too flat and gloss was uneven. (not that the docucolor is perfectly even as at the wrong angle...

Unless you want the option to be able to print on gloss stock.

We just upgraded from two canon 3200's to a xerox 242. The 3200s have served us well and we have a great service contract on them in terms of a very skilled Ikon technician (with 1.1 million + 500 thousand 11x17 prints between the pair so far) but the xerox 242 really blows them away in quality...

I was looking at an Ikon 560 / KM 5501 -- the sample were technically quite consistent but just didn't wow me or the people I showed the prints to. They were a slight upgrade from my canon prints but didn't really add a new capability for me. The xerox samples had better color and tones to my...

I'm still getting better quality off the xerox than I can get from my canons; it just bothers me a tiny bit that the xerox quality is degraded intentionally with the "too visible" yellow dots whereas the canons quality was degraded by drum issues, jitter, etc. I was really close to getting a KM...

Yup. Yellow dots are a bit more noticable than I'm used to on the canons.

I can appreciate the idea, but it is a bit unfortunate that on my new docucolor I can see the xerox yellow dot pattern in the prints with my naked eye. They are especially visible when printing with enhanced gloss mode on gloss stock it seems.

Anyone send a bill to the government for yellow toner use over 10 years?

Isn't this the just-released CPP 660 vs. the CPP 650 which was a C6500?

No matter how great the machine is, it seems the real art is being able to manufacturer toner at an affordable rate. If they're losing 30k they need to figure out how to manufacture the pigmented powder less expensively.

Thanks Craig. I'm upgrading from a pair of business-class canon IRC3200s. These year-2003-design canons never had great registration, but it's better than 3 mm. With the canons I have to dial in the offset when loading 12x18 to +.03" to +.06"of the 11x17; once I do that I see real-world variance...

Yes the CED says + / - 1.5 mm lead edge and + / - 1.7 mm side edge which sounds very bad. What I'm after is to know whether a careful operator can work within this spec--is it off, but predictable/consistent... e.g. can you use the image shift to get an image where you want it and have it...

How good or bad is the registration of the xerox 242 real world from the oversize high capacity feeder?