Xerox Phaser 6510/DN Color Printer, Amazon Dash Replenishment Ready

Quite large and heavy item, recommended to be a 2 person lift and is delivered in package that gives away it’s contents.Had to have UPS deliver to my neighbor. Somehow my poor wife managed to haul this across the street by herself without injuring herself.It is a duplex printer so automatically prints double sided. This is a nice way to save paper and probably why this unit is a bit larger and heavier.Some of the reviews mention that it will only accept genuine toner, which if this is the case would be disappointing, from and environmentalists standpoint as someone joked in their review or perhaps were being serious that when the toner runs out they are going to buy a new printer. Which is disturbing as HP was recently hit with antitrust lawsuits for artificially inflating the costs of ink and toner.My parents old Xerox will accept any old inexpensive toner and has been rock solid reliable.This printer is made it Vietnam and without the WiFi “dongle” will need to situated near ones router. Build quality seems acceptable but I think my parents old Xerox was made in Japan, not Vietnam.It is super fast and the prints in black and white are super crisp, accurate, and easy to read, even on flimsy and inexpensive paper. A color photo printed on, again, inexpensive paper looks pretty great too.I guess I am really either going to be very upset when the toner runs out, and will be either part of a class action or filing my own separate lawsuit, or very happy if it will work with generic toner.I guess we will have to see what happens when the toner runs out to really see if this is a five star or a zero star printer.Software was super easy to set up. On Mac. No set up required on iPad or IPhones prints wirelessly without a hitch.The wierd little legal size printer paper tray extension is tricky to attach.I noticed after I lifted this tank out of the box just turn the plastic release knobs on the bottom of the box and the top of the box lifts away.The owner’s manual is like 200 pages so I would not recommend printing it.

(Get the DN for 2 sided printing or the DNI for 2 sided printing AND wireless connectivity. The driver is the same for the non duplex model (6510 N) so to enable 2 sided printing with the DN or DNI the optional duplex unit must be checked as “installed” in device settings or configuration tabs within printer properties.)The 6510 has excellent color accuracy and print quality but takes some time to set up since there are 2 trays that will render different types/sizes from each as needed. So before you do anything, go to the printer control panel and set the type and size for each tray. The machine is well built but big and heavy – exactly what I wanted.Print quality is such that I pasted my company logo into the letter and envelope templates and no longer order stock from the printing company. I do mainly letters and envelopes and load tray 1 with envelopes and 8.5 X 11 in the bypass tray. (additional capacity is available via an optional 550 sheet tray)Configure the unique settings once then name and save as 1 touch presets for each type of print task with regard to tray selection, orientation, size/type of paper, etc. in the printing preferences driver configuration and life is good. Change the paper type setting to "Plain" on the printer's front panel controls and enter the size of paper to avoid some problems with custom sizes. You will still need to enter that data in the print driver (Printing Preferences) AND in the application you are printing from. (That means telling Word the size and orientation.)Just an FYI, the "Plain" setting on the printer control panel seems to be the path of least resistance (except for envelopes and other special stock.) Setting it for "Letterhead" when printing 8.5 X 11 caused the copy of a 1 page document to run through twice as if it wanted to print something on the back that didn't even exist. 1 other quirk: I prefer a USB connection and the 6510 has the bonus of a 3.0 interface. BUT to view the remaining toner levels, you apparently have to use Wi-Fi or ethernet. So I connected the ethernet cable after configuring the USB to monitor the toner levels.I prefer the V4 driver and the manual is written for V3. At first glance, I overlooked printing custom sizes in V4 and found this workaround: in the printer control panel: select the tray, type of paper, and select "custom" for the size. Specify both the portrait (length) and landscape (width). Then, File>Print>Properties>Print Settings>Paper>Other size>Fit to new paper size>Off. (The “off” setting apparently keeps you from having to reenter the custom size you just entered in the printer control panel.) Don't forget to return the printer's settings back to your normal defaults when your custom task is complete.The 6510 replaced my 30 yr. loyalty to HP and I was concerned about the switch. (The print quality of 2 HP color laser jets eventually deteriorated into a light washed out look.) Once I invested some time reading the manual, adjusting the settings on the control panel and within the printing preferences dialogue, the results were actually better than I hoped in terms of price, performance, and print quality. (I am glad I did not forgo the 6510 based on some of the negative reviews as there seems to be a correlation between results and the time it takes to get the settings right.)

Works, and works well. Print quality has been excellent. This is a true small office machine, whereas Brother, Sami, and HP peddle lower cost consumer machines (I stopped buying one-time printer champ HP, but that another story). Easy set up for hard-wired network use (sad that someone assigned a score of 1 merely for a lack of native embedded WiFi, only). Easily set up for use by computers running Windows and MacOs, IOS devices, and Linux; setting up the printer for Scientific Linux (RHEL) was as easy as defining a Xerox print driver (downloaded from Xerox)​ with a foomatic Postscript model [so you can get the ​color feature to work]. Plenty of network security features. Cartridges are fairly common, now so clones are far behind.ADDENDUM: I'll let the rating stand, but I had to mention my experience with Xerox Support. First off, the person was US based. Second, the person handled the call as if I were a field tech [rather than end user]. Next, the woman kept referring to feature not present on my unit e.g. a HOME button displaying a House (no house, not even something reminiscent of an apartment building or trailer. Finally, after 30 minutes and with a looming project deadline I had to politely​ sign-off from the call. While it wasn't one of those frustrating calls with an Indian call center, the tech seemed to be hung up on the 6515, where my need was the assistance with a 6510.