Section 1: Evaluating Workgroup
Color Multifunction Printers
Color Costs
Most common offi ce documents viewed on a computer screen contain color
—
so why shouldn’t there be color when those documents are transferred onto paper?
How the ColorQube™
9201/9202/9203 breaks through
the cost-of-color barrier:
The ColorQube 9200 series breaks through
the color page price barrier. Only Xerox
can deliver on the promise of affordable
color for every document, every day,
because only Xerox has the patented solid
ink technology to make it practical. Now
you can lower the cost of color printing for
approximately
75 percent of your color pages.
Most cost-per-copy plans consist of one
billing rate for black-and-white pages
and one rate for color pages. This may
be good for full coverage or black-only
documents, but this fails to take into
account the range of color documents
that customers actually print.
With the ColorQube 9200 series, unique
metered price plans are based on the
actual color used on the page. No more
paying expensive full-color page prices for
small amounts of color. Pages with useful
amounts of color are billed at the same
rate as black-and-white pages. The more
color pages you print, the more you
save. On most color pages, the price
will drop signifi cantly.
The ColorQube 9200 series creates
images by printing tiny spots (called
pixels) of black and color on the page.
The MFP automatically counts how many
color pixels are used to produce each
printed page. Individual pages are tallied
on three separate meters in the machine
based on how many color pixels are on
a particular page.
The only factor that determines which
meter is incremented by a given printed
page is the number of color pixels used
in printing that page. Therefore, you only
pay for the amount of color used on each
page, independent of paper size and
independent of the print quality mode
a user has selected.
Drive color print costs lower. Xerox Print
Advisor helps educate users to make
more cost effective printing decisions
and provide administrators with insight
on savings and optimizing the print
environment.
4 Xerox ColorQube 9201/9202/9203 Evaluator Guide
Typical offi ce document
color distribution
Offi ce color documents can be
classifi ed by the amount of color
used. According to Xerox research,
the following is a breakdown of
color documents in a typical
offi ce environment*:
10%
Useful
Color
25%
Expressive
Color
65%
Everyday
Color
Useful
Color
Everyday
Color
Expressive
Color
* This distribution may vary by customer location
and does not include black-only pages.
