Xerox 2510
The Xerox 2510 was the first "point of use" engineering copier available in the thirty-six inch width. It is a low volume machine designed for environments requiring fewer than one thousand linear feet of copy per month. Its principal shortcoming is that when multiple copies of originals less than thirty-six inches wide are made, toner is depleted from the developer in that particular area of the developer housing. This can result in a light band in wider document copies that may follow. This phenomena is overcome by cycling the machine several times thus introducing new toner into the developer housing. More 2510's have been manufactured and sold by Xerox than any other engineering copier ever manufactured.
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Xerox 8830 DDS
In its later manifestations Xerox has ditched the Vidar scanner and replaced it with their own Xerox manufactured, Synergix scanner which is a "world class" product. Their AccXES controller and software was developed by PLP and appears to be stable and productive. The 8825 and the 8830 have been replaced by the new 510. Xerox has had huge manufacturing difficulties with 510. Due to these problems the 510 is in short supply. As a result many Xerox dealers are resurrecting their 8825 and 8830 machines and selling them as used equipment until the 510 becomes readily available. Click here for more information |
Originally code named "Rhino", as in Rhinoceros, the 8830 is the "home grown" digital print engine from "Mother X." Xerox has taken their "finest hour", the 3050 analog copier, and turned it into a three roll digital plotter. Initially introduced as a stand alone plotter the "boys from Rochester " married a modified Vidar scanner to the printer which gave them scan to print capability. They have dubbed this the 8830 DDS (for Digital Document System). A button panel on the scanner allows the operator to perform the engineering copier functions of reduction and enlargement and multiple copy. Archiving of scanned images is accomplished using a "scan to network" feature in which the scanned images are transferred to a folder on the network for printing from a system computer. Some users find this "scan to network" feature clumsy when compared with the "scan to file" capability of the KIP and Oce' products.
XEROX 2510 Toner 