Xerox WorkCentre 7328 Review

The WorkCentre 7328 is listed as being worth $11,000 from the Xerox website. Normally in my reviews, I find a way to justify that type of price. I can usually find a really handy feature, comment on the speed, paper size, something that can make the machine as costly as it is but still make it fair.

Unfortunately I can't with this machine. While it is an impressive machine, I can't say that another over $9,000 is fair. But, as the consumer, you will end up making the decision. So, let me describe the speeds and features of the 7328 and either you will have the same opinion as me, or you will think it worth sinking the near $11,000 into this printer.

Let's talk about speeds briefly. The 7328 is equipped to output PPM (pages per minute) speeds of 26 color and 28 black and white. Normally, Xerox machines can handle about 30 PPM for lower costs, but not this time. While these speeds are pretty good (I can't say they're impressive though), I was severely disappointed. For this price I would expect at least 35 PPM for both color and black and white, but as I said Xerox faltered with this machine.

First page out speeds (when the first page actually prints), is again alright. 5 seconds for black and white, 7 for color. Alright speeds, these mean that your waiting time will be very low with waiting for printing jobs to start.

The maximum paper size is 12x18, which is good for small banners or posters. If you're using this for business needs, the biggest size paper you will probably ever use is 11x17. So while this size is good for artists, for businessmen it's kind of a waste.

Paper capacity is once again alright, clocking in as standard at 2,180 sheets. You can expand to 3,140 sheets total, which is nearly an extra two reams of paper. Depending on the size of your business, you may want to consider this upgrade.

Finishing options are standard for the most part: hole punching, stapling, saddle stitch booklet stapling (great for creating and binding mini books), and v-folding (or folding in half).

While there are a few extra features on the 7328, none of them are really eye catching, so I don't even see a need to cover them.

All in all the 7328 is a big disappointment. There are upgrades to this machine with much higher PPM ratings which I think justify the price much more, but considering the enhanced power of them I am going to review them separately. The 7328 though is in my mind just not worth the near $11,000 price tag. I've rarely done this, but in my opinion you should move on to another printer. This just doesn't have the power that kind of price tag should evoke.