Xerox launches its new AltaLink C8200 Series of A3 Multi-Function Printers, we dissect in detail the differences between the older AltaLink C8100 Series and the new C8200 Series.

Key Differences

Artificial Intelligence

The AltaLink C8200 Series is one of the first AI assisted Multi-Function Printers.

New Productivity Apps

The AltaLink C8200 Series comes with preloaded AI productivity apps.

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Summarisation

Digitisation of Hand-Written Notes

Updated Touchscreen

The AltaLink C8200 series touchscreen has been enhanced with pinch and zoom gestures.

Assistive Technology – USB Keyboard Navigation

Add a USB keyboard and you can now navigate the main screen using the keyboard and get speech output.

Increased Scanning Speed

Scanning speeds have increased on the AltaLink C8200 Series. Previously the scanning speed on the AltaLink C8130 C8135 C8145 C8155 was 141 IPM, now the speed has increased to 161 IPM on the AltaLink C8230 C8235 C8245 C8255

Embedded Web Server

There’s now an embedded webserver and touchscreen enhancements for improved accessibility to the outside world.

Pre-Defined Security Templates

Security is enhanced and easier to deploy with templates – choose from Default, Elevated or High. Saves valuable IT time in configuring security.

Standard Hard Drive

The Hard drive on the AltaLink C8200 series has been improved and the capacity increased. Previously the C8100 Series had a 128GB SSD, the new AltaLink C8200 Series has a 256GB NVMe SSD. More efficient and up to 6 times faster than a standard SATA SSD. Improved performance for data intensive tasks such as AI.

Optional Hard Drive

The AltaLink C8100 Series had an optional 500GB HDD, the new AltaLink C8200 Series has a 1TB NVMe SSD with the same improvements in performance as the standard hard drive when compared to a traditional SATA Drive.

Scanning Options

Scanning to metadata is now possible on the new AltaLink C8200 Series

Enhanced User Experience using AI

The new AltaLink C8200 series uses AI and recognises commonly used features. It can not only predict and suggest what task to use, it can suggest and build a workflow shortcut based on your everyday jobs.

It will even remind you while you are setting up a job if you forgot to use a one touch that you have already set up.

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What things are the same on the AltaLink C8200 series and the AltaLink C8100 series?

Same consumables

The AltaLink C82xx Series takes the same drum, toner and other consumables, so we can probably assume that the print engine is the same.

Same outer casing and colours

The AltaLink C8200 Series uses the same panel colour as the previous AltaLink C81XX series.

Same model code suffixes

The AltaLink Series codes differ in that the last two numbers denotes the A4 page per minute speed.

The AltaLink C8200 Series uses the same nomenclature format as the AltaLink C8100 Series;

AltaLink C8130 / C8135 / C8145 / C8155 / C8170

AltaLink C8230 / C8235 / C8245 / C8255 / C8270

Accessories

The AltaLink C8200 Series uses the same accessories as the AltaLink C8100 Series