Phaser 560


Features
The Phaser® 560 Color Laser Printer provides fast, high-quality color printing on plain paper and specialty media, plus the ease of operation and high performance you expect from a color laser printer. Some of its features include:

Feature Description
High quality

Crisp 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) printing with high-definition screening produces bright colors and clean text suited for nearly any application. Optionally available, full 1200 dpi imaging provides near-photographic print quality.

High speed

Fast Monochrome Mode 14 pages per minute (ppm) monochrome at 600 dpi (prints using black toner).

Fast Color Mode Nearly 5 ppm full color printing at 600 dpi
(prints using CMY toners).

Presentation Mode Nearly 4 ppm full color, 14 ppm monochrome,
at 600 x 600 dpi.

Standard Mode Nearly 4 ppm full color, 14 ppm monochrome, at 600 dpi.

Premium Mode * Nearly 2 ppm full color, 7 ppm monochrome, at 1200 dpi.

Workgroup-efficient

High-capacity, easy-to-replace components minimize user intervention. Fast throughput and automatic tray switching make the Phaser 560 printer an excellent central resource for large or small workgroups.

Color calibration

A front panel control allows you to adjust individual color densities.

Job Collation feature **

Generates multiple copies of a multiple-page job in collated order.

Check Print capability **

Allows you to preview a large print job before running the entire job.

Phaser Copystation

This optional accessory enables your printer to be used as a color copier.

Special media

A Multi-Purpose Feeder, with up to 100 sheet-capacity, accommodates the following:

Duplex printing

Print double-sided on laser paper - either from the paper trays or the Multi-Purpose Feeder.

Plain paper

Prints on common office papers:

Media sizes

Lower Tray Assembly

The optional Lower Tray Assembly provides two additional media trays, especially useful for automatic media selection when running large print jobs.

TekColor Dynamic Correction

Tektronix' exclusive color-control technology makes it easy to print the colors you
want. Includes the new Automatic color correction that adjusts the color quality for the best reproduction and print speed of each page in a document, depending on the elements (graphics and images) on each page.

Easy to connect

Bi-directional parallel port with plug-and-play support; PhaserShare cards provide optional network interfaces for Ethernet (Novell NetWare, EtherTalk, and TCP/IP), Token Ring (Novell NetWare, TokenTalk, and TCP/IP), as well as LocalTalk (LocalTalk and RS-232).

PhaserLink software printer control and information access

PhaserLink software provides a breakthrough in printer control and information access, using HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol, the basis for World Wide Web browsers). This software allows you to use a standard web browser for these tasks:

Font capacity

The Phaser 560 Color Printer has 17 resident PostScript fonts in the standard configuration, upgradable to 39 fonts with the Extended Features option. Additionally, it accepts Adobe Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType downloadable fonts as well as a variety of user-defined fonts. For additional font storage, the printer provides a SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) port that allows you to attach an external hard disk.

Improved reporting on consumable usage and replacement

* Requires the Extended Features option.
** Requires the Extended Features option. Requires 24 Mbytes of memory.

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