Xerox Work Center M-118 DADF

Xerox has come out with this monochrome MFD that has all

the features to suit the needs of mid-sized enterprises and workgroups. It's a

laser printer, copier, scanner and fax. The MFD can also directly e-mail any

document that you scan. If you have heavy-duty paper requirements, then you can

even add additional paper trays to it, at an extra cost, of course. The device

connects to your network so that multiple users can share it.

Xerox Work Center M-118 DADF Price: Rs 2,13,000 (Toner: Rs 2,880 for 11,000 A4 prints; Drum: Rs 14,825 for 60,000 A4 prints) plus 3-yrs warranty Meant For: Medium and large workgroups Key Specs: Modular design Pros: Can automatically adjust and print on multi-sized papers quality color printing Cons: None Contact: Xerox India, Gurgaon. Tel: 9810046317.E-mail: Kuldeep.Malhotra@xerox.com RQS# E51 or SMS 131251 to 9811800601

The device can be managed in three ways. You can either

manage it from the keypad on the device itself. There's an LCD panel to view

your settings, and you can configure everything from the paper size, contrast,

number of copies, to tray selection and watermarks. You can also change the

network parameters like IP address and other details from here. You can also

configure the device from a Web browser, rom here, you can do real-time and

periodic monitoring of the device. The device stores logs of all functions

performed by it, which can be accessed through the Web browser. Plus from here

you can have an eye on the paper tray (percent of paper left) and the toner

(percent of toner left). The third and final way to manage the device is by

installing drivers. One interesting thing that we noticed here is the number of

options for this monochrome printer is as detailed as a color printer. The drive

gives you a six-tabbed dialogue box from where you can set everything including

the common paper settings to detailed graphics settings and watermark settings

to fax settings and phone books.

Another interesting feature that caught our attention is an

option with which you can copy multiple-sized pages in one go and the printer

automatically detects the right paper size and gives the output on the same

sized paper. So for example if you are copying 10 A4 and five A3 copies at the

same time through the ADF of the MFD, and the paper is kept such that A3 sheets

are in one tray and A4 in another tray, the printer will automatically copy the

A3 pages on A3 paper and A4 pages on A4 paper. One more additional feature that

this device has is that it can take print of multiple pages in a single page for

editing or preview. We tried to print eight pages in one A4 sheet and found the

quality of the print decent enough and readable.  On the faxing front, this

MFD has faxing capability inbuilt into the driver. So if you want to send faxes

you don't need any other software, just type your document in Word or any

other word processor and send it across the network. You can even use the

Windows address book to get phone numbers for sending faxes. It has other

features like both side printing and scanning to e-mail. But all these features

are additional and you have to pay extra for them. On the performance front, the

MFD's printer lived up to its rated 18 ppm print speed. In over-the-network

printing, which we tested on a moderately busy 100 Mbps network, we found that

it took 10 secs to print the first page, which is pretty good. The rest of the

pages came out after every 3 secs, giving its rated 18 ppm print speed. The

copying also resulted in the same 18 copies per sec. Quality of prints was

pretty good, with good



graphics, prints and fonts readable down to point size 2.

Bottom Line: A good choice for enterprises, given

all the functions it supports, including the capability to do over- the-network

faxing.

Anindya Roy