MAKING COPIES :
If you are in a rush and want to make some quick copies, you can do that too with this unit. Just place the documents on the document feeder and hit the Copy button in between the Stop and Start/Enter buttons. Again, I would not recommend this function because of the poor quality.


INK CARTRIDGES :
The specifications say that the black ink cartridge can yield 1075 sheets if only 75% of every sheet was filled when printed. Now that is not always the case because you do not always send documents that contain only text through the fax. Sometime you want to send pictures, charts, and other documents that fill up a page entirely, so the total yield count drops to about 800 to 900 prints per cartridge for us. The color cartridge on the other hand should yield about 240 sheets as per the specifications, but that is also not the case most of the time. For us, it is around 150 to 200 pages if we are lucky with the color ink cartridge.

Replacing ink cartridges are very simple and easy. Just press the button with a picture of an ink cartridge and open the front panel and the ink cartridge compartment door and you will see the cartridges ready to pop out of their seats. After you replace the cartridges you will notice on the LCD that the unit wants to know which cartridges you replaced (Left, Right, or Both). You select one and then it will print out a cartridge alignment sheet and you go through set alignment settings. It would have been easier if the unit aligned the cartridges itself and figured out which cartridge was replaced itself also. But I would not expect that from this unit because it is so old and back then the technology was not as advanced as today’s machines.


FINAL THOUGHTS :
After using the Xerox WorkCentre 470CX for about two years now, I have gotten used to its nature, but have to say that we need a new fax machine or maybe one of those all-in-one (printer/copier/scanner/fax) machines. So if you wish to know whether I would recommend this product, I would say no because of a couple of reasons I discussed in this review. First of all, the speed, intelligence, and quality are the major issues that have been improved in the latest models out in the market today, so I would suggest purchase the latest model from Xerox which is the FaxCentre F110.

 

 

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