Released November 1998, the Tektronix Phaser 780 is based on the same Fuji-Xerox color laser engine as the Fuji-Xerox Color Laser Wind 3310 and 3320 printers released in February and June 1998. By the end of 1999, the engine had been adopted by several OEMs including Epson, Xerox, Mita, Mannesmann Tally, and Océ.
Targeted mainly at the graphic arts market, this Fuji-Xerox engine offers resolutions ranging from 600 x 600 dpi to 1200 x 1200 dpi depending on the model, and has print speeds of 4 pages per minute (ppm) with 4 colors, 16 ppm monochrome.
The Phaser 780 uses seven consumables: four toner cartridges, an OPC drum, a fuser oil roller, and the waste toner box. The toner cartridges are housed in a carousel where latent images are created on the drum and then transferred to the transfer belt one color at a time. Once the image is completed, it is transferred to the paper so it can be fused and delivered to the output tray.