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Phaser 840 Color Printer
Phaser 840 printer overview
The Phaser 840 Color Printer is an Adobe PostScript Level 3 (Version 3010) color,
solid ink-jet printer. It also supports color PCL 5C at 600 x 600 dots-per-inch
resolution. The Phaser 840 printer prints at a number of resolutions: A 10 page-
per-minute (ppm) Fast Color Mode, a standard 5.7 ppm mode, an Enhanced
mode of 491 x 982 dpi at 3.3 ppm and a High-Resolution/Photo mode of 600 x
1200 dpi at 2.2 ppm.
All printer models but the standard version feature built-in auto-duplex printing.
Standard Phaser 840 printer.
The base Phaser 840 printer features 136 built-in fonts,
and is equipped with 32 Mbytes of RAM. It can be upgraded to as much as
128 MBytes of RAM using any combination of two 16-, 32-, and 64-Mbyte RAM
DIMMs.
The Phaser 840 Plus printer.
The Phaser 840 Plus printer option upgrades the
printer to 64 Mbytes of RAM. It include a SCSI port daughter card to support an
external SCSI disk for additional font storage as well as a scanner. Special
circuitry on the SCSI port daughter card enables additional features like duplex
printing, job pipelining and Check Print mode. With job pipelining, the printer
can print one image and process the data for the next image at the same time.
Check Print mode prints the first page of a multiple page print job while holding
the remainder of the job pending front panel approval.
The Phaser 840 Extended printer.
The Extended Features option has all the features
of the Phaser 840 Plus printer but includes additional RAM to bring the printer to
128 Mbytes of RAM. It also includes a High-capacity Paper Tray and an internal
IDE hard drive.
All printers support four available paper trays: Two A and A4 trays are meant for
paper and low volumes of transparencies; two other A and A4 trays are meant for
label stock and high-volume transparencies. The optional 500-sheet High-
capacity Paper Tray Assemblies gives the printer a two-tray capability. With the
addition of a second High-capacity Paper Tray, the printer has a three tray
capability. (The High-capacity Paper Tray Assembly is sometimes referred to as a
lower feeder; it only supports paper printing.) The printer can also print six sizes
of handfed envelopes in low volumes.
A 133-MHz PowerPC processor oversees print engine operations and PostScript
image processing. The printer features an integral bi-directional parallel port
(IEEE 1284C with ECP mode) and a 10baseT Ethernet port (with support for
EtherTalk, Novell NetWare/NDS, TCP/IP, DHCP and Windows Peer-to-Peer).
A USB high-speed serial port is also provided. A rear panel slot allows
customers to install one “smart card” PhaserShare Series B Network Card. One
card provides a LocalTalk port. A second, alternative card offers a 10BaseT/
100BaseT/10Base2 Ethernet board providing standard protocol support for
EtherTalk, Novell NetWare/NDS, TCP/IP and DHCP. When installed, this card
disables the standard 10baseT port. A third card provides a Token Ring board
providing protocol support for TokenTalk, Novell NetWare/NDS and TCP/IP.
When inserted, this card also disables the standard 10baseT port.
A second rear panel slot accommodates an internal IDE hard drive for print job
collation, job accounting, font storage and PDF direct printing.
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