Business nowadays is full of stiff competition. Even for the home user, personal business user, and small workgroups, they’re in need of a printer that offers fast monochrome and high quality color printing at an affordable value. With this, Fuji Xerox has developed an A4 color laser printer, and this is the DocuPrint C525 A.
When their new baby came out of the market, it earned the appreciation of many fans for its outstanding color laser printing at a low cost per page, that has been the fruits of years of experience by Fuji Xerox Printers.
The DocuPrint C525 A is powered by a 300 MHz processor and with a base memory standard of 64 MB RAM and maximum of 576 MB RAM. With this RAM, it ensures the user unmatched performance in black and white, or color printing, and that it can print even the most complex of documents, including photos, graphics, and texts.
Technews has done several tests for the C525 A, and the results were striking. Warm up time for the printer is only a mere 40 seconds. And it has really a fast printing feature. For black and white documents, it printed 25 ppm, and for color documents, it printed 5 ppm.
Another is its quick response printout, the first black and white document came out in 8 seconds, while the first color page came out in 18 seconds.
And gotta tell, the print resolution on standard mode at 600 x 600 DPI are quite excellent, and printing at 9600 x 600 resolution is crisp and sharp.
The printer has a standard 200-sheet paper tray capacity. A user has an option to acquire a 250-sheet and 500-sheet feeder, making it a total of 950 sheets in paper input capacity.
Printing has always been simpler for the C525 A, because with its graphical printer driver, setting up, color set-up, and auto color image correction, is intelligently simple and automatic for the user’s everyday use.
The C525 A has a unique feature that tops of its class. It is the only color laser printer that has a standard network connectivity for IEEE1284 parallel, USB 2.0, and Ethernet 10/100BaseT (TCP/IP).
The DocuPrint C525 A also has Fuji Xerox’s patented Emulsion Aggregate (EA) toner technology that helps reduce toner cost and machine contamination, and uses less power, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity.
Other standard features for the C525 A are multi-up printing, poster printing, watermark printing, rotate image, booklet creation, and zoom support.
According to Fuji Xerox, the DocuPrint C525 A printer driver runs on Windows 2000 and XP. For Windows 98, Me, NT4.0, Mac OS X, and Linux will be available after August 2005.
We find the DocuPrint C525 A has the best performance and value for a color laser printer. Its cost-effective and superior quality combined, the C525 A is an excellent choice for small workgroups and home offices.
