essistme.com — Personal review/recommendation of a largely unknown program offered by Xerox that gives a free Tektronix Color Printer (solid ink stick technology, basically like a color laser printer) with auto-duplexing (double-sided printing) and network-ready. After 3 years of usage, official deed is transferred to user. No fees, basically risk-free.
Dec 13, 2006 View in Crawl 4
farkleDec 13, 2006
This program has been around for years. I think you'd better read the fine print, it's 'free' as in NOT.
kkcooljDec 15, 2006Submitter
Having gone through the program myself and now have the Phaser 860 printer in my office that is officially mine after the 36 month program, it definitely IS FREE. I didn't pay for the application, shipping the printer to me, nor any monthly fees, etc. The only thing I paid for was the ink sticks which I would have paid for anyway -- or paid for some other printer's ink / toner. The black ink was unlimited + free -- for which I only paid $5/3 boxes of ink (15 sticks, which lasts for THOUSANDS of printed pages).The OEM C, Y, M ink can be viewed as pricey if you want, and if you really want you can use 3rd party ink like from Media Sciences, which Xerox will never find out about during the program. But technically you should be buying all ink from Xerox for the duration of the program which I did. Still, the per-page cost is tons cheaper than going to Kinko's, PIP, Staples, or any other place -- and you have the convenience of having it in your office available 24/7 on your network.I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone that currently pays for color prints or is currently using color printers in their offices and could use a 2nd printer, or small zbuinesses/entrepreneurs/consultants/agencies/churches/restuarants/schools/medical offices that really do have the volume of 2,000 pages of prints a month normally.