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Phaser 840 and 850 Color Printers
Phaser 840 printer overview
The Phaser 840 Color Printer is an Adobe PostScript Level 3 (Version 3010) color,
solid-ink 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
automatic two-sided printing.
Standard Phaser 840N.
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 32-, and 64-Mbyte RAM
DIMMs.
The Phaser 840DP.
The Phaser 840 DP printer option upgrades the base printer to
64 Mbytes of RAM. It includes 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 First page Preview mode. With job pipelining, the printer can
print one image and process the data for the next image at the same time. First
Page Preview mode prints the first page of a multiple page print job while
holding the remainder of the job pending front panel approval.
The Phaser 840DX.
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.
The Phaser 840GP.
This Designer Edition printer includes all the features of the
Phaser 840DP but includes 128 Mbytes of RAM, a 10/100BaseT network card, and
translucent blue cabinet panels.
The Phaser 840DPF.
This freecolorprinters.com program printer is a Phaser 840DP
printer but it also includes a High-Capacity paper Tray and 3 years of onsite
service.
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 Assembly 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.
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