Xerox 6180N - Phaser Color Laser Printer User manual

Phaser®6180
Evaluator
Guide
Phaser®6180
color laser printer

CONTENTS
Section 1 — Introducing the Xerox Phaser 6180 color laser printer
Product Overview................................................................................................. 1
Phaser 6180 Configurations and Accessories ..................................................... 2
Section 2 — Evaluating Color Laser Printers
Evaluate Value ...................................................................................................... 4
Evaluate Print Quality ........................................................................................... 6
Evaluate User Friendliness ................................................................................... 7
Section 3 — Configurations, Specifications, Supplies, Support
and Information Sources
Configuration Summary....................................................................................... 9
Specifications ....................................................................................................... 10
Supplies................................................................................................................ 10
Support and Additional Information Sources ...................................................... 11
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This guide will introduce you to the Xerox®Phaser®6180 color laser printer,
and help you in your printer evaluation process.
Contents PHASER 6180 EVALUATOR GUIDE

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SECTION 1
Introducing the Xerox
Phaser®6180 Color Laser Printer
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Xerox Phaser 6180 color laser printer blazes a new trail among affordable, easy-to-use color printers
designed to support small groups of employees. Delivering the speed and print quality today’s small and
medium-size businesses need, the Phaser 6180 is an excellent solution for day-to-day color and black-and-
white printing. With print speeds up to 20 ppm color and 26 ppm black-and-white, true-to-life colors,
easy installation and day-to-day operation, the Phaser 6180 is the right fit for offices looking to upgrade
from their aging four-pass color laser or color inkjet printers.
Step up the pace
The Phaser 6180 color laser printer gets your jobs out quickly. Very quickly.
• Printing speed as fast as 20 ppm in full color lets you bring your work to colorful life without
slowing you down.
• Black-and-white printing at up to a speedy 26 ppm, which gets your everyday office printing done
quickly.
• First-page-out time as fast as 10 seconds means your job is done faster than your trip to the printer.
Unleash your potential
With vibrant, true-to-life colors and crisp text and image definition, the Phaser 6180 prints like a pro.
• Print resolution up to 600 x 600 x 4 dpi delivers results that get your work noticed.
• True Adobe®PostScript®3™support ensures bright, vivid and accurate colors and graphics.
• PANTONE®Color approved solid-color simulations give you peace of mind that the colors you expect
are the colors you’ll get.
• Emulsion Aggregate High Gloss toner uses smaller, more uniform toner particles to bring more detail
and clarity to every image.
Work hard, print easy
From installation to everyday operation, the Phaser 6180 laser printer provides a wealth of features to make
office life easier.
• Included installation software is extremely fast and easy, getting you up and running in minutes whether
you have IT support or not.
• Keep tabs on print jobs and get quick access to online support from the comfort of your chair with
CentreWare®IS Embedded Web Server.
• Print cartridges combine toner and the imaging unit, which streamlines the replacement of routine items.
• PrintingScout™saves precious time by tracking print jobs and providing immediate print-issue alerts
with correction suggestions.

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PHASER 6180N STANDARD FEATURES
Print Performance
• Print Speed — Up to 20 ppm color,
26 ppm black-and-white
• First-Page-Out Time — As fast as 10 seconds color
• Resolution — Up to 600 x 600 x 4 dpi
• Language Support — True Adobe®PostScript®3™,
PCL®6 emulation
Controller
• Processor — 400 MHz
• Memory — 128 MB standard (1152 MB maximum)
Connectivity
• Network — 10/100Base-TX Ethernet
• Direct Connect — USB 2.0, Parallel
Paper Capacity: 400 total sheets, standard
(950 total sheets, optional)
• Tray 1/Multipurpose Tray (MPT) — 150 sheets
• Tray 2— 250 sheets
• Tray 3 (optional) — 550 sheets
Paper Handling
• Supported Sizes —
Tray 1/MPT — Custom sizes from 3 x 5 in. to
8.5 x 14 in. (76.2 x 127 mm to 220 x 355.6 mm)
Trays 2 and 3 — Custom sizes from 5.8 x 8.2 in. to
8.5 x 14 in. (148 x 210 mm to 220 x 355.6 mm)
• Supported Weights —
All Trays — 17 to 40 lb. bond, 40 to 80 lb. cover
(65 to 220 gsm)
• Media Types — Plain paper, transparencies, labels,
envelopes, business card stock, glossy
Print Features
• Standard — Banner sheets*, Booklet printing*, Covers*,
Fit to page, Overlays, Separators, Transparency separators,
N-up, Skip blank pages, Watermarks*, Poster printing*
• Advanced (requires at least 256 MB memory) —
Secure Print, Proof Print, RAM Collation
Reliability
• Duty Cycle — 60,000 pages per month**
• Warranty — One-year on-site, Xerox Total Satisfaction
Guarantee
* Available only with PCL print driver
** Print volume uniformly distributed over 30 days
PHASER 6180 CONFIGURATIONS AND ACCESSORIES
The Phaser 6180 comes packed with features to support busy
workgroups in small and medium-size businesses

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PHASER 6180DN STANDARD FEATURES
Includes all capabilities of the Phaser 6180N,
with the following upgrade:
Print Performance
• Automatic two-sided output
PHASER 6180
OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
• 550-sheet feeder, adjustable to support up to
legal-size media
• 256 MB and 512 MB memory upgrades
• Multiprotocol network card, which adds support
for DDNS, IPP , Wins, SSL/HTTPS
• Duplex unit adds to automatic two-sided
printing (for Phaser 6180DN only)
• Wireless network adapter
Phaser 6180 with optional
550-sheet feeder

EVALUATE VALUE
Purchasing a color printer is not a trivial investment for a small office or small business. Evaluating
the overall value that a printer in the entry-level price range delivers is an important step during the
purchasing process. Does the printer deliver a level of performance that will allow you to increase
productivity in your office or workgroup? Does the printer deliver new features that will enable you
to accomplish new things? Lastly, does the printer offer paper capacities that fit your workload?
PERFORMANCE
The Phaser 6180 sets a new standard for performance in its class, with color printing speeds up
to 20 ppm and black-and-white print speeds up to 26 ppm. This level of performance will easily
handle the workload of your small group of professionals, whether your documents are primarily
color or black-and-white.
The Phaser 6180 doesn’t just print pages quickly — it gets jobs started quickly with first-page-out
times as fast as 10 seconds. Even complex print jobs are processed quickly by the Phaser 6180
print controller, which features a 400 MHz controller and 128 MB of memory standard
(1,152 MB maximum).
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HOW THE XEROX PHASER 6180 EXCEEDS THE VALUE REQUIREMENT:
Section 2
Evaluating Color Laser Printers
While the benefits of color are easy to see, evaluating color printers for future purchase and deployment
into your business can be more challenging. Based on years of experience and research into the real-
world needs of color printer users, Xerox has identified some key issues for you to consider as you
conduct your color printer evaluations.
Color printers that are deployed into small businesses or offices have unique requirements from other
color printers on the market. Overall value, print quality, and user friendliness are the attributes that
small office customers should evaluate when selecting a color laser printer for their environments.
Evaluate Value
Purchase cost, operating costs and productivity — each of these impacts the
overall value you will receive from the color printer you ultimately purchase.
Evaluate Performance and Print Quality
More than just pages per minute, the overall printing performance of a color
printer will indicate whether it is able to support the workload of your busy
employees and produce documents that will wow your customers.
Evaluate User Friendliness
It’s important that printers in this class are easy to set up, use and
manage on an ongoing basis — whether you have IT support or not.
This section of the Evaluator Guide will examine each of these areas and
suggest ways you can evaluate printers against these requirements. Do this
for all the color laser printers you consider, and you’ll see how the Phaser
6180 exceeds expectations on all counts.

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1Only available when using PCL®6 emulation print driver
2Requires minimum 256 MB memory
EVALUATE VALUE (CONTINUED)
ADVANCED PRINTER FEATURES
The Phaser 6180 is packed with advanced print features that you might be surprised to find on a
printer that’s so affordable. Expand the print capabilities of your office, with features ranging
from booklet printing to adding watermarks to documents.
Advanced features include:
• Banner sheet1— Prints banners using multiple sheets
• Booklet printing1— Formats printed documents, such as brochures or handouts, for folding into
booklets
• Covers1— Prints cover pages for documents on specified media (colored paper to make print jobs
easily sortable, for instance)
• N-up printing — Prints multiple pages on each page, which is especially convenient when print-
ing presentations
• Poster printing1— Enlarges images by printing onto multiple sheets of paper
• Proof print2— Prints the first set of a multiple-set job, so you can make sure you’ve got the right
print settings before releasing the remaining sets to be printed
• RAM collation2— Collates print jobs consisting of multiple sets of multipage documents, which
eliminates the need to manually collate documents after the job is completed
• Secure print2— Holds the job at the printer until you release it with a specified 4-digit PIN code,
which ensures that sensitive or confidential files are not exposed in the output tray
• Skip blank pages — Conserve paper and supplies by skipping blank pages within a document
• Transparency separators — When printing transparencies, include plain paper separator pages
with or without the images for the corresponding transparency page
• Watermarks1— Adds watermarks to printed documents to denote “Confidential”
or “Draft” documents
MEDIA HANDLING
The Phaser 6180 has a standard total paper capacity of 400 sheets, with
the 150-sheet Tray 1/MPT and the 250-sheet Tray 2. For most offices
purchasing a printer in this class, a 400-sheet capacity will effectively
minimize the number of interventions required when paper runs out.
For offices with heavier workloads, adding the optional 550-sheet Tray
3 increases total capacity to 950 sheets. The capacity of Tray 3 is large
enough for you to load an entire ream of paper without waiting for the
tray to run completely empty.

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HOW THE XEROX PHASER 6180 EXCEEDS THE PRINT QUALITY REQUIREMENT:
EVALUATE PRINT QUALITY
Print quality is actually the sum of many factors involved in reproducing the image on your computer
screen to the printed page. Does the printer’s color and image quality exceed the requirements for your
internal and external applications? Is the range of media types and sizes you regularly use supported
by the printer?
COLOR QUALITY AND PRINT RESOLUTION
The ability to deliver vibrant color prints and crisp, fine-line detail involves many attributes of a
color printer. The Phaser 6180 offers multiple print modes that deliver up to 600 x 600 x 4 dpi
resolution — delivering 16 shades of color per pixel and producing exceptional photographic
quality. The 400 MHz controller features 128 MB of RAM, and it works with the True Adobe®
PostScript®3™and PCL®6 emulation print drivers to quickly and accurately process print jobs.
The Phaser 6180 features PANTONE®Color approved solid-color simulations and includes a
number of color correction settings to give you true-to-life colors and powerful color
management capabilities.
APPLICATION RANGE
Common types of office applications include presentations, reports, proposals, spreadsheets and
brochure layouts. The impact of these kinds of applications is maximized when they are printed in
color. The high-quality color laser output of the Phaser 6180 will help enliven your presentations,
enhance the communication of your ideas in marketing collaterals, and improve the professional
look of your customer proposals and documents.
MEDIA SUPPORT
The Phaser 6180 prints on a wide variety of media, including plain printer paper, transparencies,
labels, envelopes, card stock, business cards and glossy. Support for a range of media sizes and
weights means you have flexibility when printing and producing materials in-house. Phaser 6180
media support includes:
• Media Size — The Tray 1/MPT supports the widest range of paper sizes, including custom
sizes from 3 x 5 in. up to 8.5 x 14 in. and all standard sizes in between. Tray 2 and the optional
Tray 3 support custom sizes between 5.8 x 8.2 in. and 8.5 x 14 in.
• Media Weight — The Phaser 6180 supports the same media weights in all three trays, with
support for 17 to 40 lb. bond, 40 to 80 lb. cover and 65 to 220 gsm media.
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EVALUATE USER FRIENDLINESS
User friendliness starts when the printer arrives at your office and carries through to your ongoing day-
to-day experience. Most small businesses have limited access to IT resources, so it’s important that the
color printers you adopt are easy to set up, install and manage. Print drivers need to offer easy access
to key features and be intuitively organized. Lastly, when troubleshooting is required, you should have
access to strong tools to minimize downtime and maximize productivity.
SETUP AND INSTALLATION
Once the Phaser 6180 is unpacked and in place, the installation process is simple and automated.
Plug in the power and connectivity cables, and turn on the printer. The Phaser 6180 will automati-
cally connect to your network. Then, using the included installation CD, step through the wizard-
based print driver installation process to connect your computer to the Phaser 6180. In as few as
four clicks, you’ll be connected and printing.
DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT
Xerox provides a set of tools and utilities to ease
the ongoing management and administration of the
Phaser 6180. Whether you manage a single
Phaser 6180 or a group of networked printers and
multifunction products (MFPs), Xerox delivers
utilities that make your life easier.
• Xerox CentreWare®Internet Services (IS) —
CentreWare IS is an embedded web server that allows
you to connect to the Phaser 6180 via any standard
web browser. With CentreWare IS, you can monitor
printer status, view the print job queue, manage set-
tings and properties, and access troubleshooting and
support resources.
• Xerox CentreWare®Web Network Management Utility — Companies that have multiple print-
ers and MFPs connected to their networks can install, view monitor device status,
configure, track usage and troubleshoot from their computer via one convenient and
powerful web application. Additionally, the interoperability of CentreWare Web means
you can manage your non-Xerox devices as well.
PRINT DRIVERS
The Phaser 6180 print drivers are intuitively organized to
offer quick access to the most commonly used features,
with easy tab-based access to the complete feature set.
The default Paper / Output tab offers features like job
type, paper size, paper type, 2-sided print settings, paper
tray, image orientation and output color. More in-depth
image options, layout options, and advanced settings are
available via other tabs.
HOW THE XEROX PHASER 6180 EXCEEDS THE USER FRIENDLINESS REQUIREMENT:
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EVALUATE USER FRIENDLINESS (CONTINUED)
SUPPLY REPLACEMENT
Convenient toner-level gauges are located
on the Phaser 6180 front panel and via
CentreWare IS. Access to current print
cartridge and maintenance-item levels
helps you predict when you need to order
replacement supplies.
Supply replacement is simple as well, with
all supplies accessed through the front of the
printer. This eliminates the need to either
pull the printer out from the wall or turn it
around to install fresh consumables.
TROUBLESHOOTING
To avoid downtime and maximize productivity,
the Phaser 6180 includes these convenient,
proactive troubleshooting tools:
• PrintingScoutTM — Saves precious time by
tracking print jobs and providing immediate
print-issue alerts with instructions on how to
resolve problems.
• Online Support Assistant — Access online
troubleshooting information from the same
Knowledge Base library used by Xerox
customer support professionals, directly
from CentreWare IS.
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