Xerox

Xerox B235

Mono laserToner

Xerox's smallest office multifunction, and one of the least-known machines in this catalogue — which is a shame, because 36 pages a minute with a 50-sheet feeder, fax, duplex printing and Ethernet is a serious specification. It is built and priced like a small business tool rather than a household appliance: plain styling, a 2.8-inch colour touchscreen and a straightforward web interface for administration. The toner is a 3,000-page cartridge at $124.99 from Xerox's own store, which puts it at roughly 4.2 cents a page — about a quarter more than the Brother mono lasers here and close to HP's 134X. Worth looking at if you want an alternative to the Brother/HP duopoly, and if you can live with an interface that expects you to know what you are doing.

Approx. price: ~$299
Cost per mono page: 4.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$507
Print speed, mono: 36 ISO ppm

Best for

A small office that wants a fast mono multifunction outside the Brother and HP duopoly.

marks an estimate. Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. Purchase price plus ink or toner over the pages shown, assuming four mono pages for every colour page. Price is an approximate snapshot from our last catalogue update.

What it costs to own

Black consumable: Xerox 006R04400 high-capacity toner · 3,000 ISO pages · ~$124.99
Cost per mono page: 4.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$507
Cost to own, 200 pages/month for 3 years: ~$599 (7,200 pages)

Computed from the consumable's ISO page yield and its list price. An estimate. How this is worked out

Cost to own · 5,000 pages

Xerox B235~$507
~$299 printer + ~$208 supplies
Brother MFC-L2820DW~$433
~$269 printer + ~$164 supplies
HP LaserJet Pro M209dwe~$448
~$229 printer + ~$219 supplies

purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.

Specifications

Manufacturer-published figures. Cost lines are computed from the consumable figures above and are estimates.

Approx. price: ~$299
Cost per mono page: 4.2¢
Cost to own, 5,000 pages: ~$507
Cost to own, 3 years: ~$599
Technology: Laser
Ink system: Toner
Inks: 1
Black consumable: Xerox 006R04400 high-capacity toner · 3,000 pages
Third-party ink lock: No
Ink subscription: None offered
Print speed, mono: 36 ISO ppm
Functions: Print · Copy · Scan · Fax
Two-sided printing: Auto
Document feeder: 50 sheets
Two-sided scanning: No
Paper capacity: 250 sheets
Max paper size: Legal
Borderless photo: No
Resolution: 600 × 600 dpi
Connectivity: Wi-Fi · Ethernet · Front USB
Mobile printing: AirPrint · Mopria
Display: 2.8" colour touchscreen
Dimensions: 16.4 × 14.2 × 13.9 in
Weight: 22 lb
Released: 2021

Features

36 ppm with automatic two-sided printing
50-sheet document feeder with fax
Wired Ethernet and Wi-Fi
600 × 600 dpi output
Web-based administration interface
2.8-inch colour touchscreen
Front USB port for printing from and scanning to a stick

Document feeder Auto duplex No ink lock Ethernet Fax

In its favour

36 ppm with a 50-sheet feeder, fax and duplex at a mid-range price
Built and administered like business equipment, with a proper web interface
Ethernet and Wi-Fi together
Laser reliability with no clogging risk

Against it

About 4.2¢ a page on Xerox's own toner, a quarter more than the Brother mono lasers here
Paper beyond the 250-sheet tray goes through a one-sheet manual slot
Black and white only, and the feeder scans one side

What owners say

No owner discussion has been collected for the Xerox B235 yet. The specifications above are the manufacturer’s published figures and the cost per page is computed from them — but nothing on this page claims to know what living with it is like, because nobody here has read owners on it.