Although the 1235DT doesn t quite live up to that ideal, the unit does offer much faster color printing than you would find in an equivalent laser printer. The unit s claimed speed is 20 pages per minute for monochrome and 12 ppm for color. Actual throughput on our tests, for a 30-page Word file, was 15 ppm for the monochrome version of a file and 10 ppm for the color version. Output quality is good to excellent. Both text and line graphics are rendered suitably crisp and clean, and gradients in graphics shade gradually from one color to the next.
Images are nearly photo-quality and can pass for true photo quality when viewed at arm s length.
The dithering we noticed in graphics and photos was relatively subtle, taking the form of graininess. We also saw a slight amount of streaking in one full-page graphic, but we observed only the slightest hint of misregistration on a test designed to bring out that problem. The 1235DT s claimed cost per page is only 6.4 cents for 11 percent coverage or 7.4 cents for 15 percent coverage. In short, we found a lot to like in the Xerox Phaser1235DT color printer, and it may well represent the wave of the future for color printers. Text Newsletters ZDNet Updates Update your software and make your PC run better.