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If you have about $2300 and your business prints a lot in color, then the Xerox Phaser 8860 solid ink printer is for you.  Any smart business owner knows that one of the things that need to be controlled in a business is the operating costs.  With the Xerox 8860 Phaser, the color ink costs about 3 cents a page and the black about 1.5 cents.

Ink sticks are a non-toxic resin-based color wax block, similar to a crayon.  The ink will not stain your clothes or your skin unlike toner and inkjet cartridges.  In addition, it is environmentally friendly by having no waste or plastic toner cartridges to dispose of while taking up only about ¼ of the space in your office supplies storage area than a box of toner.  Ink is instantly fused onto the paper using heat and pressure, which is why solid ink produces such great image quality on any kind of media. Toner and inkjet ink soak into the paper, so the image is dependent upon the type of paper used.

The 8860’s rated print speed is 30 pages per minute (ppm) for both monochrome and color at its top speed, and 16 ppm for both in default (enhanced) mode. It is equipped with a standard 525-sheet drawer, a 100-sheet multipurpose tray, and a duplexer. As an option, for $400 each, you can also add two more 525-sheet drawers raising the maximum paper capacity to 1,675 pages.  If you are having problems with this printer and need a Xerox Phaser 8860 service manual, you can download it.

InkCloners.com offers compatible Xerox 8860 solid ink at a reduced price from the original brand.  We pack an extra ink stick in each box giving you printing capacity of about 14,000 pages per box per color.  Rest assured that the color output is just as good as the original and we offer a full guarantee on all our printer ink products.

InkCloners.com also has compatible Xerox phaser ink for the following popular printers:

• Xerox Phaser 8400 ink
• Xerox Phaser 8500 ink
• Xerox Phaser 8560 ink

Wouldn’t it be great to use an inkjet printer to print on circuit boards using silver ink?  Xerox has come up with a breakthrough idea of using silver ink to print electronic circuits.  One of the few actual applications has been printing antennas for RFID tags.  These radio-frequency identification tags are used in the EZ-Pass or FastPass technology.  It is an integrated circuit that is applied to or incorporated into a product for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves.  By having this reliable printing available, you can print electronic devices for far cheaper than current methods cost.

An important technological hurdle met by Xerox was to melt the silver at a lower temperature as to not burn the material.  But Xerox produced a conductor, which melted the silver ink at a low enough temperature so as to not melt plastic or burn the printing medium.  With this mind, Xerox hinted that it could apply its technology to replacing barcodes in supermarket products with RFID’s.  So just as you would speed through an EZ-Pass in your car, just pile up your shopping cart and pass it through a “shopping cart ez-pass” and pay electronically.

Still another important piece of the puzzle is that Xerox needs to make the technology available to others. Assuming it does what Xerox is claiming, and assuming other companies agree it does what they need, this new technology may be just the breakthrough the industry needs to jump start printable electronics as a major new approach to building electronic devices.  Just imagine using silver ink cartridges.  More information can be found here.