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
®
9301/9302/9303 breaks through
the cost-of-color barrier:
The ColorQube 9300 series breaks through
the color page price barrier. Only Xerox can
deliver on the promise of affordable color,
because only Xerox has the patented Solid
Ink technology to make it practical. Now
you can lower the cost of color printing for
approximately 70 percent of your color pages.
Most cost-per-copy plans consist of one billing
rate for color pages. This may be good for
pages with lots of color, but this fails to take
into account that most pages printed in the
offi ce have only low to moderate amounts
of color.
With the ColorQube 9300 series, unique
metered price plans are based on the actual
color used on the page. No more paying
expensive 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 9300 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.
4 Xerox ColorQube 9301/9302/9303 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*:
Useful
Color
Everyday
Color
Expressive
Color
* This distribution may vary by customer location
and does not include black-only pages.
30%
Useful Color
30%
Expressive
Color
40%
Everyday
Color
