Here at InkSticks® we are specialists in supplying original & compatible solid ink for the Xerox Phaser range of printers including the Phaser 8560, Phaser 8560MFP, Phaser 8500, Phaser 8550, Phaser 8400 & Phaser 8200 machines.
Solid ink printers start with solid blocks of ink that the printers have to melt. Once the ink's melted, the printer can spray it on a drum; it then rolls the drum against a piece of paper to transfer the image, just as with an offset printing press. The problem is that keeping the ink melted takes power, which means you have to keep the printer on at all times.
The smaller your office, the less likely it is that you'll want to leave your printer on 24 hours a day. That makes solid-ink printers in general, and the 8560MFP/D in particular, most appropriate for small to medium-size offices or for workgroups in larger offices.
Xerox rates the 8560MFP/D engine at 30 pages per minute for both monochrome and color. On our tests it turned in reasonably fast times, although not as fast as you would expect from a color laser with that rating.
Output quality counts as another strong point. Its text is just a bit below ideal. More than half the fonts in our test suite, including all the standard fonts you might use in business documents, were easily readable, with well-formed characters at five points. One heavily stylized font with heavy strokes needed 20 points, but that's fairly common, even for a laser. Unless you have an unusual need for small font sizes, the 8560MFP/D can handle any text you throw at it.
Not surprisingly, the 8560MFP/D offers paper handling aimed squarely at office use. The standard 625-sheet paper capacity, and 1,675-sheet maximum with two 525-sheet drawers added ($200 street each), means you won't have to constantly add paper. And the D in the model name indicates a built-in duplexer. (If you don't need duplexing, you can buy the 8560MFP/N instead, for $1,500 street.)
