Xerox Phaser 3300 MFP

Fast but costly all-in-one is worth the coin

THE XEROX PHASER 3300 MFP delivers lightning-fast monochrome laser printing. Its $599 list price is steep, but that includes an ADF and an autoduplexing unit.

At 18x18.3x17.1 inches (HWD), the 3300 is beefy. It has a 150-sheet output tray, a 250-sheet input tray, and a 50-sheet multipurpose tray. A single-sheet output tray is at the rear, along with a 10/100Mbps Ethernet port, two telephone jacks, and a USB port. We like that you can save scanned documents to USB devices but would have liked support for flash-memory cards, too.

Regular setup was a breeze; network setup was a bit more involved. The printer uses DHCP to obtain an IP address, and once we plugged in the network cable and rebooted the printer, we were assigned one.

The Phaser 3300 scans at 600x1,200dpi (optical) and 4,800x4,800dpi (interpolated), and you can scan documents and images to an application. e-mail address, or another machine or server on the network. Faxes transmit at 3 seconds per page at resolutions up to 300x300dpi (mono) and 200x200dpi (color). You can store up to 240 fax numbers.

Xerox claims 30 pages per minute; our 20-page document took 45 seconds, and copying our 20-page Word document took 1 minute and 2 seconds. Text reproduction was crisp and well-defined, and the small fonts were clear and legible.The ID Card Copy feature lets you copy both sides of a document onto a single sheet of paper in one step.

The Phaser 3300 has a duty cycle of 25,000 pages per month. It ships with a standard toner cartridge with a 4,000-page yield; an 8,000-page cartridge is available for $170.


At $600, the Xerox Phaser 3300 MFP isn't cheap, but if waiting around for printouts is
bogging down office productivity, this speedster is worth every penny.—John R. Delaney

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Computer Shopper January 2009