My Phaser 6250 has Banding

My Phaser 6250 has banding about 1/16" apart on photos. Is this normal for
color lasers, or should I be expecting more from it? I'm thinking about
exchanging it for the solid ink printer. Any experience with them?

In article <Jceqb.11142$ .net>,
Lewis <> writes
>My Phaser 6250 has banding about 1/16" apart on photos. Is this normal for
>color lasers, or should I be expecting more from it? I'm thinking about
>exchanging it for the solid ink printer. Any experience with them?
>
The solid ink jobby produces much better output (glossy) compared to my
previous QMS one, downsides: i) difficult to laminate output ii) need to
leave it on all the time.

--
Timothy Lee http://www.wightproperty.com

Lewis wrote:
> My Phaser 6250 has banding about 1/16" apart on photos. Is this normal for
> color lasers, or should I be expecting more from it? I'm thinking about
> exchanging it for the solid ink printer. Any experience with them?
>
>

Hi add to the comments by Timothy,

(I have an 860DX). Output is fine (even very good ... but I have little
else to compare it with). In addition to the glossiness of the paper it
also adds a 3d effect because of the ink.

Catches. Unless the printer is used a lot (how much ???) the cyan ink
gets burned and turns cyan brown. The only way is to use 2-3 stix [sic]
of ink and print a lot of pure cyan pages (200-300 pages are needed to
drain the burned ink).

Other features ;-), there is a maintenance kit that has to be replaced
every 10K pages (there are also 40K kits the first of which I used ...
won't give me 40K pages).

If you want quality printing + you will print a lot consider a solid ink
printer.

Regards
Charles
BTW. Get as long a warranty as you can afford, Xerox is(was?) the only
manufacturer to offer warranty up to 4 years. No A3 printing with solid
ink printers.

In article <bodj84$1l2$>, Charles Christacopoulos
<c.k.christacopoulos_removeme_@dundee.ac.uk> writes
>
>Other features ;-), there is a maintenance kit that has to be replaced
>every 10K pages (there are also 40K kits the first of which I used ...
>won't give me 40K pages).
>
I think they put a 15 month lifetime on them, so I will have to see how
I feel about whether to get 10k ones or 15 month ones, I do around 25k a
year.

--
Timothy Lee http://www.wightproperty.com

I really hate to exchange this printer, because I'm still not sure if i have
a faulty unit. Has anyone had similer problems with the 6250?

"Lewis" <> wrote in message
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> My Phaser 6250 has banding about 1/16" apart on photos. Is this normal for
> color lasers, or should I be expecting more from it? I'm thinking about
> exchanging it for the solid ink printer. Any experience with them?
>
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