For environments with hefty monochrome and color printing needs, an all-in-one color laser offers considerably faster prints, while still letting you fax, copy, and scan without extra hardware. The drawbacks, alas, are many: While color lasers have dropped precipitously in price in recent years, at $800 the Xerox Phaser 6115MFP (or its near-identical twin, the Konica Minolta magicolor 2490MF, which we also tested) is still two to four times the cost of an inkjet, and it's also considerably larger: You'll need a friend to get it situated on a desk. As for color, lasers still don't do well with photo prints, doing much better with non-glossy output like brochures and PowerPoint slides.
Review: Xerox Phaser 6115MFP Printer
For environments with hefty monochrome and color printing needs, an all-in-one color laser offers considerably faster prints, while still letting you fax, copy, and scan without extra hardware. The drawbacks, alas, are many: While color lasers have dropped precipitously in price in recent years, at $800 the Xerox Phaser 6115MFP (or its near-identical twin, the […]
WIRED
Requires only nominal hardware setup; messy toner cartridges come preinstalled. Super-crisp text cranked out at 16 pages per minute. Top-quality copies, considerably better than inkjet. Add the $100 duplexer option for two-sided printing.
TIRED
Software setup rather time-consuming and buggy-Konica auto-installed Portuguese drivers on our test PC. No Wi-Fi. Very large. Thick paper curls badly after printing. Couldn't scan multiple pages at once using automatic document feeder. Color copies could be faster.
