Xerox 8860MFP - Phaser Color Solid Ink User manual

environmental benefits
Solid Ink
Bring green into your
office scheme
with the Xerox
Phaser®8860MFP
and Phaser®8860 printer
The Xerox solid ink imaging process is
the most environmentally friendly way
to put an image on paper. From its nearly
waste-free printing process to its safe,
toxin-free solid ink sticks, it was made with
the earth in mind.
Leaves no trace behind.
Consider this — solid ink images are printed onto a rotating drum and offset onto paper in just one
pass of the print engine. This Xerox-exclusive imaging process results in nearly 100% ink-to-page
transfer efficiency during normal printing.
In comparison, conventional laser / LED printers’ toner-to-page transfer efficiency is much less,
resulting in residual toner and developer accumulation that requires the device to purge the excess
material to a waste collection container after every print.
The bottom line?
Solid ink printing generates 90% less waste during use than a typical color laser product.
Safe and clean.
Resin-based solid ink sticks are completely safe and clean, and contain no
solvents. Unlike toners, they cannot spill, leak or smudge on your clothes.
Recycle ready.
You’ll be happy to know that you can recycle solid ink printouts
just like the output from laser printers or office copiers.
And because solid ink prints the same vivid color on any paper,
you can use recycled paper for all your printing. You don’t need
expensive, super-white paper to get superb image quality.
Phaser 8860MFP
multifunction system
Phaser 8860

Solid Ink
Fewer replaceable units. Less to throw away.
Think you’re done with a consumable when it needs to be replaced? Not with laser / LED devices.
When a laser printer runs out of toner, you are still left with big, bulky print cartridges that need to be
disposed. Not to mention other items such as fusers, fuser oil and imaging units.
Solid ink printers, on the other hand, utilize compact solid ink sticks with no casings. So when you run
out of ink, there’s nothing left to throw away.
The only other replaceable unit is a maintenance roller. This lasts for tens of thousands of pages, so it
only needs to be replaced a few times in the life of the printer.
The bottom line?
For every 100,000 printed pages, a solid ink printer generates approximately 5 lbs. of waste,
compared to approximately 157 lbs. for a typical color laser.
Move over print cartridges.
Here comes something leaner. Because solid ink
sticks are smaller than those cumbersome print
cartridges, they’re easy to store. And there’s less
packaging to recycle.
How Does Solid Ink Stack Up?
Color Ink Type Handling Cost per page Environmental Ease of Use
Technology Cost
Solid Ink Solid Sticks Clean Low Low Very Easy
Laser Dry Toner Can Spill Low High Complex
Ink Jet Liquid Can Leak Low Medium Easy
Dye Sublimation Transfer Roll Clean High Medium/High Easy
Landfill waste for every 100,000 pages
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