Section 2: Evaluating Color Laser PrintersEvaluate Printing Performance and Print QualityWorkgroup-class color laser printers need to deliver a level of performance thatcan support heavy daily workloads. This includes raw print speed, as well as printjob processing speed. Print quality is another overall performance consideration: Doesthe print quality meet your expectations? Is the print controller powerful enough tosupport your applications? Is the printer designed to be shared by employees in busyworkgroups? Does the printer provide the right media support for your applications?Performance and printqualty requirements:Overall Print PerformanceThe Phaser 6360 is a high-performancecolor printer built to handle the dailydemands of busy medium-size and largeworkgroups of up to 25 employees. Thefirst thing many customers look at whenevaluating printers in this class is printspeed — the Phaser 6360 doesn’t disap-point, with speeds up to 42 ppm for colorand black-and-white. For average officeprint jobs of three pages or less, the moreimportant specification is first-page-outtime — the Phaser 6360 delivers in as fewas 9 seconds.The Phaser 6360 delivers impressive officeprint quality as well, with a resolution of upto 2400 x 600 dpi. The Phaser 6360 fea-tures PANTONE® Color approved solid-colorsimulations, and includes a variety of colorcorrection settings to manage color outputand match printing devices and computerdisplays. Whether printing internal docu-ments or presentations for customers, thePhaser 6360 delivers print quality youremployees can count on to impress.Powerful ControllerThe Phaser 6360 is powered by the mostdynamic print controller in its class. It isthe only letter-size color printer on themarket today that boasts a 1 GHz Pow-erPC processor, with 256 MB of memorystandard and expandable memory upto 1 GB. This powerful controller adeptlyprocesses complex print jobs and contrib-utes to the impressive first-page-out timedelivered by the Phaser 6360.Built to be SharedWith standard support for 10/100Base-TXEthernet networking, a 100,000 page-per-month duty cycle, and a customizablepaper capacity from 700 to 2,350 pages,the Phaser 6360 is truly built to be shared.Network administration tools are providedto help IT departments track printer use,facilitate charge-back billings, and plan forfuture printer deployment.Media SupportThe Phaser 6360 can easily handle a widerange of media to support the variety ofdocument types your busy employees pro-duce on a regular basis. Supported mediatypes include plain printer paper, trans-parencies, labels, envelopes, card stockand glossy media. Media size and weightsupport for the Phaser 6360 include:Supported Sizes• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — Selectablesizes from 3.5 x 5.5 in. to 8.5 x 36 in.(89 x 140 mm to 216 x 914 mm)• Trays 2–5 — Selectable sizes up toLegal/A4Supported Weights• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray — 17 to 40 lb.bond, 50 to 80 lb. cover (65 to 216 gsm)• Trays 2–5 — 17 to 40 lb. bond, 50 to 60lb. cover (65 to 163 gsm)6 Xerox Phaser 6360 Evaluator Guide