General Information 1 - 5Phaser 860 Printer OverviewThe Phaser 860 Color Printer is an Adobe PostScript Level 3 (Version 3010) color,solid-ink printer. It also supports color PCL 5c at 600 x 600 dots-per-inch resolution. Theprinter can print at the following resolutions: Fast Color mode, 16 page-per-minute (ppm) Standard mode, 10 ppm mode at 355 x 464 dpi Enhanced mode, 6 ppm at 464 x 928 dpi High-Resolution/Photo mode, 3.5 ppm at of 600 x 1200 dpi.The printer also includes a 7 ppm Fast Transparency mode and a 4 ppm StandardTransparency Mode (double-pass). Both modes are at 355 x 464 dpi.The Phaser 860B. The Phaser 860B printer features 136 built-in fonts, and is equippedwith 64 Mbytes of RAM. The Phaser 860B can be upgraded to configurations of 64, 128,192 and 256 Mbytes of RAM using combinations of 64- and 128 Mbytes RAMSODIMMs. The Phaser 860B does not support networking or High-resolution/Photomode.The Phaser 860N. The Phaser 860N printer adds a 10/100 BaseT Ethernet port andhas all the same features as the Phaser 860B model.The Phaser 860DP. The Phaser 860DP printer option upgrades the printer to128 Mbytes of RAM and includes additional features like 2-sided printing, job pipeliningand High Resolution Photo mode.The Phaser 860DPF. This is a freecolorprinters.com program printer. The Phaser860DPF has all the features of the Phaser 860DP printer, but adds a High-capacity papertray and 3 years of on-site service.The Phaser 860DX. The extended features DX option has all the features of thePhaser 860DP printer, but includes a High-capacity Paper Tray and an internal IDE harddrive.All printers support five available paper trays: Two A and A4 trays are meant for paperand low volumes of transparencies; two other A and A4 trays are meant for label stock andhigh-volume transparencies; and a legal size paper tray which comes with an output bail.There is an optional 500-sheet High-capacity Paper Tray Assembly gives the printer atwo-tray capability. With the addition of a second High-Capacity Paper Tray, the printerhas a three-tray capability. (The High-Capacity Paper Tray Assembly is sometimesreferred to as a lower feeder; it only supports paper printing.) The printer can also printsix sizes of hand-fed envelopes.A 250-MHz PowerPC processor oversees print engine operations and PostScript imageprocessing. All configurations, except the Phaser 860B feature a 10/100BaseT Ethernetport (with support for EtherTalk, Novell NetWare/NDS, TCP/IP, DHCP and WindowsPeer-to-Peer). A USB high-speed serial port is also provided. LocalTalk, Tolken Ring and10Base2 are not supported by the Phaser 860 printer. An internal IDE hard drive can beinstalled on the main board for font storage and job accounting, if the printer has DPfeatures the hard drive will support collation, proof print, saved print and secure print.An integral bi-directional parallel port (IEEE 1284C with ECP mode) supports printingand also allows connecting a parallel interface scanner for optical copying support.
