[zerostar]

Hello, we have a Xante CL30 as our main production printer, we are looking to upgrade and have been eyeing a couple models...

Xante Illumia "digital press" Series... Can take up to 24pt stock!

Xerox Phaser 7760GX - it does up to 100lb cover but that should be good enough for our needs.

Our main needs are SPEED, color accuracy and up to 11 x 17 output. This will be a proofing printer for a publishing company. Anyone deal with the two or have any further recommendations?

The Xerox is the cheaper printer but I am not sure what I would be losing in the long run.

[KeriVit]

I've had good/excellent Xante experience, bad Xerox experience. Not those models though.

[zerostar]

Yes everyone I spoke with said if you go Xerox get a service contract.. I will either way, but that is very telling. Since my other Xante is running string I will stick with what has been working...

[Thorzdad]

FWIW, I used to work in an office that had two Phaser printers (Tektronix brand...before Xerox bought them out) and I loved them. I've never had office printers that gave such fast, accurate, quality prints. With Color-management set-up properly on my Mac, those things were mighty impressive.
I have no idea, though, if Xerox has buggered the quality.

As an aside, if you are doing a large amount of in-house output, you should always get a service contract, no matter what brand. Sure as anything, your workhorse is going to go belly-up right in the middle of printing materials for that crucial meeting.

[art_director]

Originally Posted by Thorzdad 

FWIW, I used to work in an office that had two Phaser printers (Tektronix brand...before Xerox bought them out) and I loved them. I've never had office printers that gave such fast, accurate, quality prints. With Color-management set-up properly on my Mac, those things were mighty impressive.
I have no idea, though, if Xerox has buggered the quality.

As an aside, if you are doing a large amount of in-house output, you should always get a service contract, no matter what brand. Sure as anything, your workhorse is going to go belly-up right in the middle of printing materials for that crucial meeting.

I can speak to this...

If anything Xerox improved the Tektronix machines. I have a Xerox Tektronix 7700DN I bought three years ago and it works like a charm.

One note: If you get this machine be certain to set uo the security properly.

[billy_d_goat]

I agree about Tektronix. I have had several clients purchase the them since becoming part of Xerox. None have reported any issues and have been quite please. I'd argue that Xerox make some of the best copiers and printers that I have run into in the last few years.