Xerox workcentre c2424-dn User Manual

Xerox

The WorkCentre C2424 family is
unique, the only MFPs based on a
solid ink engine. That engine is the
basis for the excellent color printers
in the Xerox Phaser 8400 family. Solid
ink machines have little to do with the
more common, inexpensive thermal
ink jet MFPs for the small- or home-
office. Instead, solid ink is a printing
technology that competes more with
laser and LED machines.

Xerox’s solid ink technology offers

what we consider excellent image
quality. Even the default lower-res set-
ting seems to produce pretty accurate
color renderings, more than good
enough for office use.

These machines offer very

respectable speeds. The engines are
rated for up to 24ppm, both in color
and in black-and-white, in printing
and in copying.

Numbers don’t tell the complete

story here — 24ppm is achieved in the
“fast” mode, whose resolution (at
300dpi) isn’t as high as what we’ve
described above. The standard mode
of 18ppm (at 300 x 450dpi) offers
acceptable quality, however, and that’s
still reasonably fast for a color printer.
You can opt for even finer detail in the

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enhanced resolution of 400 x 563dpi
(12ppm) or photo mode at 525 x
600dpi (7ppm). These speeds are
selected in the print dialog box for
print jobs and on the front panel for
copies.

These models come with a powerful

500MHz processor, ensuring that they
will handle printed pages and copies
with ease.

The WorkCentre C2424 multifunc-

tionals are tightly integrated and easy
to use. For example, when you have to
change consumables, you need only
open the top cover of the machine and
slide in blocks of ink that look and feel
like disk-shaped crayons. Set-up is
simple, too, since the scanner unit is
tightly integrated, requiring no assem-
bly.

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