If you print lots of pages and lots of color, theXerox® ColorQube® 8700 can help you realizesignificant savings on up to 70 percent ofthe color printing you do every day. You getexceptional value, with a total cost of ownershipthat’s hard to beat.And when you choose the ColorQube 8700,how you pay for the Solid Ink you use iscompletely up to you, with two breakthroughcost saving options to choose from: the HybridColor Plan or pay as you go.Hybrid Color PlanIf you like the simplicity of metered billing, takeadvantage of high-impact color with the HybridColor Plan. It classifies documents based on theactual amount of color used – no more payingfull-color prices for low-color documents.The three tiers of the Hybrid Color Plan:• Black + Useful Color. Billed at the black-onlyrate.• Everyday Color. Billed at slightly more thanthe black-only rate.• Expressive Color. Billed at the current marketrate for color.Pay As You GoIf you prefer replenishing your Solid Ink as youneed it with no monthly commitment, considerpaying as you go – and get color for the cost ofblack-and-white. Color printing. Black-and-whiteprice. It’s that simple.Section 2: Evaluating Color Multifunction PrintersCost ControlWhen evaluating the costs of printing, it’s important to first think about yourcurrent printing costs. Once you understand the actual per-page costs of your printingactivities, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the total costs associated with yourprinter over its lifetime.How the Xerox ® ColorQube®8700 Exceeds the Cost ControlRequirement• Manage, track and report device usage. UseXerox® Standard Accounting tools to controlprint quantities and charge-back options.Advanced solutions from Xerox BusinessInnovation Partners deliver even more helpfultools for larger office environments.• Customize your print driver settings foreconomy and efficiency. For example,choose N-up for printing multiple pages on asingle sheet as your default. Adjust settingsfor specific applications, such as alwaysprinting emails in black-and-white.• Secure Print with timed deletion. Withthis feature, users are required to enter apasscode at the device to release the job anddocuments not printed within a set time willbe deleted. That means less documents areunnecessarily printed and left at the device.• Control color output. Administrators canlimit users’ print output to black-and-whiteonly by applying this setting within the driver.• Reduce unclaimed prints. With the Hold AllJobs Queue feature, jobs are printed only whenthe user walks up to the device and releases it.• Pick your paper. With Solid Ink, there’s nosacrificing print quality when you chooseinexpensive office paper or recycled media.• Flexible print speeds. Choose the perfectcombination of speed, savings, and imagequality for any output – from drafts, tophotographs, to marketing material.• User permissions. Restrict access to printfeatures by user, by group, by time of day, andby application. For example, allow color printjobs only during certain hours of the day, oremails always print in black-and-white.Color Black-and-whitePay As You Go Same Low PriceTypical Office Document ColorDistributionOffice color documents can be classifiedby the amount of color used. Accordingto Xerox research, the following is abreakdown of color documents in atypical office environment*:UsefulColorEverydayColorExpressiveColor* This distribution may vary by customer locationand does not include black-only pages.30%Useful Color andBlack-and-white30%ExpressiveColor40%EverydayColorXerox® ColorQube® 8700 Evaluator Guide 5