Xerox WorkCentre 6515dn A4 28ppm Colour Multifunction LED / Laser Printer with Duplex printing

I bought this printer for my home office to replace a SOHO colour inkjet. This printer is for a bigger office, not for SOHO. It works brilliantly for me, but I expected a similar size like my previous printers and was surprised. Should have checked the dimensions first. This printer is much taller and really heavy. If you are thinking to buy it, find the size and weight on the product details page, and check if it will fit. I had to place it somewhere else, not where my old printer used to sit,.Printing is like in most lasers, quick, quiet, nice and smooth.For some reasons, the product detail page does not tell you all the nice features. Here are some points I did not know:Scanning is better than what I expected. It scans both sides of a page in one go. I did not expect that. Scanning is much quicker this way, obviously.Toner cartridges, drums can be replaced independently.PostScript support - I use Linux, wife uses a Mac, with PostScript there is no problem with driver support.Negative things:After power-up, booting takes a while. Not extremely long, but noticeably longer than all other printers I had.There are a few settings that are well hidden. After power on, it prints a page. This can be disabled, but it's not easy to find where. On the plus side, when I emailed Xerox support, the next day they answered and told me what to change and where.Like I wrote, I think this printer was not designed with home offices and small offices in mind. I think it is not meant to be switched off - eliminating the long wait for the startup and the configuration page printing.Also, there are some features (like sending scanned documents in email), which require settings that will probably baffle people who had SOHO printers before. I can set up my own mail server so I am OK with that, but if you are not computer savvy and you don't have an IT guy in the office where this printer will sit, you will not be able to use every advanced feature.

Before buying this I had an OKI colour laser printer and a Epson all in one photo printer but didn’t have the room to have them all in my home office so decided to get rid of them and buy this Xerox multifunction colour laser printer. When originally looking for the printer to replace my other two I needed something that had very good print quality do the job of both of my other printers combined but also could be cheap to run and have OEM compatible Toner cartridges available as everybody knows official minute facture toners always exuberantly overpriced.This printer seemEd to fit the bill perfectly and upon arrival it certainly didn’t disappoint so thought I would leave it A little while before writing a review.Now been using it for if couple of months I must say I am so glad that I bought this model not only does it do everything that I could possibly want it to but also compatible toner cartridges are easy to find and really good quality. I really like the way that you change the cartridges so much easier than my old OKI printer.The print quality is superb from the moment you get it out the box it’s also extremely easy to set up for printing although it did take me a little while to find out how to automatically scan Something and send it directly over to the computer rather than just copying it.All in all very happy with this printer and can’t recommend it enough

Things you need to know:If you're an Android user then the Mopria Print and Scan apps are great. Mopria is an alliance of the big printer manufacturers to provide 'universal standards' and it makes using the print and scan facilities easy. They give you printing and scanning from your smart phone. Not sure what you do if you're an iOS user?The wireless connection is good for printing and also supports scanning from a PC using Xerox software.. The Mopria app also works well. I haven't yet investigated other options such as 'scan to desktop'.The printer can be setup to scan to your Gmail account, but again it's fiddly. If using wifi then then the primary connection on the printer needs to be set up as 'WiFi' on the printer. Your Gmail account will also need to be setup with two factor authentication and then a 'less secure app' password can be generated (from your Google account) especially for the printer.The printer automatically prints on two sides if wanted. The scanner feeder will scan both sides if wanted. The 2 to 2 sided scanning and printing facility is great for the money.The admin password for Xerox printers is '1111', but for first time use you need to use the printer S/N instead. Restart the printer and use the S/N. Another GOTCHA!Overall a great printer for the money once setup up, but a few hurdles on the way.7 months down the line and the printer is still working well with no connectivity issues.