Xerox Printers

I am intrigued with the latest series of printers from Xerox that use solid ink sticks. I write this as I look at a box of empty Epson and HP ink jet cartridges. I can't throw them away; we throw away too much crap already. I've looked into giving them to charities that collect such things to be recycled. But nobody wants the Epson cartridges. And there aren't really many charities actually collecting these things around where I live. So a printer that doesn't create more garbage is attractive to me.

Furthermore, I do wish for a printer of higher quality than existing ink jets using ink that's clean and easy to load into the printer, prints that don't smear, doesn't go through cartridges like they're going out of style and doesn't jam at the least little deviation in paper quality. Have you ever run out of ink in the middle of the night when the stores are closed and you have a big presentation the next day? Thank God for Kinkos! And nothing irritates me more than having to replace a cartridge when I know there's more ink in the damn thing. I can hear it when I shake it!

I do appreciate the work my battle worn HP's and a relatively new Epson have done. But my requirements are exceeding the occasional use that such printers are built for and going up a step to the laser printers offered by those companies doesn't satisfy my desire for simplicity and green behavior.

So I'm going to look into the costs associated with the Xerox Phaser series of printers and actually see if I can play with one somewhere to see what this new line Xerox can do.