Xerox Docuprint C8

I have been using HP printer at office for last about three years. Recently I required a printer at home too I made my choice in favour of Xerox DocuPrint C8 mainly for it being cheap and having separate ink tanks for different colours in its cartridge. Since then I have had a love-hate relationship with the device. My experience of last three months with Xerox DocuPrint C8 can be summarised in following paragraphs. PRINTER AND CARTRIDGE ====================== * A light weight and compact printer. Has paper feeding tray on top. Printed papers will also be received at the top. A remove-able plastic sheet is used to separate the prints from blank ...  Read the complete review

I fell for a modest con trick recently when I was offered a "free" C8. The condition was that you buy a set of the smaller colour cartridges, not necessarily the high capacity black. I felt slightly uneasy about it, so I telephoned and asked if this meant that I would have 2 sets of cartridges for my £30 + £10 delivery + VAT (=£47) and the answer was no, what they were doing was getting you to pay for the set already included with the printer! However, £47 still seemed a good deal, so I went ahead. the latest Viking price is about £58, by the way, so it looks as though Xerox are dumping the things! However, as a printer, I am ...  Read the complete review

I bought a C8 printer when my old faithful Hewlett Packard gave up the ghost, I bought it via an auction on the yahoo auction site & it cost £70. I bought it not knowing anything about that particular brand the only Xerox printer I could find in the shops at the time was a C6 at £1 cheaper. I was pleasently suprised, the set up was dead easy & it was up & running within minutes. One huge advantage is the 4 seperate ink tank system which means not wasting a cartridge when 1 colour runs out. I thought there may be a problem buying new cartridges as no shops seemed to sell the machine but I needent have worried as PC World sold them.The price was £7.99 ...  Read the complete review

I decided to try the docuprint C8 when freecolourpinters.com were offering them for £40. I really wish I hadn't bothered. The idea is great - four individual ink tanks so you are not wasting ink but as they are around £10 each you don't see any saving. Don't touch the compatible ones, they are so thin and you end up with a soggy mess. The printing quality is ok but I had a lot of problems with paper jamming or not feeding through properly. It is also very noisy. It does a print head maintenance thing daily but this can be any time day or night and has often woken me up. You cannot have a conversation while it is working. ...  Read the complete review

My Xerox C8 came as part of a computer package from Currys, to buy separately at the time it cost £49. It worked fine until it came to replacing the cartridges and after that for some reason it never worked properly ever again! It was exceptionally noisy and a major disadvantage is that it has no on/off button meaning every time I switched my computer on, the printer would start whirring away which was annoying. Paper jams were also a common occurence. Instead of having a black and colour cartridge, it has 4 separate cartridges, this is supposed to be an advantage so that you only need to replace the single empty cartridge. Trust me, it is not an advantage, it just ...  Read the complete review