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One of the last things I worked on before leaving the Honors College was installation and configuration of a Xerox 5665 WorkCentre all-in-one copier, printer, scanner, and fax machine.  The all-in-one machine has become a necessity in most office environments and I highly recommend leasing over purchasing one of these machines.  Compared to the Kyocera Mita 4030 that we were using the Xerox was a massive upgrade.  The Xerox machine will allow scan to email, scan to network share (via SMB), copy, fax, print, all completely networked and easy to use.  Configuration of the Xerox machine required a little help from the Xerox Tech Guy who helped with connecting the machine to our LDAP server to allow access to the global email address book (so awesome!).  Other than that, configuration involved going through the web interface one step at a time and choosing the desired settings, which, if you have any knowledge of all-in-one copiers is fairly easy. 

We ran into some problems with the machine jamming in the first few days.  Somehow a roller set was damaged during transport and the copier would print very inconsistently.  At times it would work perfectly and then at others it wouldn’t.  Of course, its failures always seemed to align with its use by our less tech savvy staff members, which hindered our ability to troubleshoot the problem quickly.  To their credit Xerox got the machine fixed quickly and as far as I know it is still working well.  I’d highly recommend looking at a Xerox all-in-one if you are in the market for a high quality, networked, copier/scanner/fax.