At more than 35kg, the Lexmark X543dn is no lightweight and it is bulky enough that its flatbed scanner, with Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), does not look as large as on comparable devices from other brands.
The ADF will take as many as 50 sheets, which is an excellent quantity. There is a single-sheet feed for special media and a smart optional second tray can be obtained, that includes both a 550-sheet paper tray plus a 100-sheet multipurpose feed.
The primary control panel, which goes accross the whole width of the unit, is sparsely filled, partially because this appliance does not incorporate fax facilities. The two-line by 16-character, backlit LCD display is sufficient to show status information and menus, even though at times text has to auto-scroll to fit. There is a number pad, to help you print safely, with PIN entry, although there is no front-panel USB socket. For that you would need to spend somewhat more for the X544dn.
Actual set up is unconventional, because you clip the four toner cartridges in location at the side, after you have raised up the right-hand end of the scanner unit and secured it in position. Even though the yield of the toner cartridges is fairly minimal, no more than 2,500 pages, you are able to install a dozen of these before having to replace the imaging drums. If you have left enough room at the side of the device, upkeep really is easy.
Lexmark has usually supported lots of diverse operating systems and, in addition to Windows and OS X support, this device will work with a wide range of Linux implementations, Novell NetWare, UNIX and Citrix MetaFrame. Software is made up of driver and a status monitoring applet. USB along with network connections are supplied as the norm.
Lexmark quotes 20ppm for both black and colour print from this machine. We managed to get pretty near this with our 20-page print, clocking up 16.4ppm, though the shorter, 5-page document merely recorded 10.0ppm. A 15 x 10 cm colour picture on an A4 sheet printed in 31s. Subjectively, the printer appears fast and this is helped by the remarkably quiet mechanism, while printing or copying.
Copying rates of speed are fair plus the machine does not need a lengthy period to warm up before commencing printing. We saw a single-page colour copy finishing in 22s and our five-page black text document copied inside an exceptional 31s.
An appealing feature of the X543dn is the fact it offers a duplexer built-in as standard, atypical for a colour, laser multifunction. Two-sided print is handled virtually entirely internally, therefore pages go to the rear tray wholly printed. Our 20-side, 10-page text print took 2:08, which gives a duplex rate of 9.4spm, an exceptionally fair throughput with this category of workgroup machine.
The printed output quality implies the device appears to have been intended for regular business use. Black text is thick, razor-sharp and extremely easy to read at its 1,200dpi resolution. Colour graphics are some of the richest we have witnessed coming from a laser, although by default tones come through quite dark. These colours are fantastic for graphs, charts as well as other business graphics.
Where they fall down is in printing photographic content, which comes through appearing heavily filtered or touched-up, with primary colours. However, you may modify these by tweaking the images before print, but by default they seem somewhat garish.
Consumables are made up of two yields of toner cartridge, two different imaging packs, that have either a black drum or drums for all four colours, and also a separate waste toner bottle. They all call for changing at different frequencies, therefore upkeep costs are going to be just a little greater than those printers with incorporated drum and toner cartridges.
Lexmark’s X543dn is a novel device, and prints fairly quickly and provides duplex print as standard. Beneficial expansion via an optional paper tray mitigates against a rather small 250-sheet standard provision. Printed output is ideal for attention-grabbing business documents, however too bright for all those containing pictures. Running costs, specially regarding colour, tend to be high.
At more than 35kg, the Lexmark X543dn is no lightweight and Hotele Wrocław it is bulky enough that its flatbed scanner, with Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), does not look as large as on comparable devices from other brands.
The ADF will take as many as 50 sheets, which is an excellent quantity. There is a single-sheet feed for special media and a smart optional second tray can be obtained, that includes both a 550-sheet paper tray plus a 100-sheet multipurpose feed.
The primary control panel, which goes accross the whole width of the unit, is sparsely filled, partially because this appliance does not incorporate fax facilities. The two-line by 16-character, backlit LCD display is sufficient to show status information and menus, even though at times text has to auto-scroll to fit. There is a number pad, to help you print safely, with PIN entry, although there is no front-panel USB socket. For that you would need to spend somewhat more for the X544dn.
Actual set up is unconventional, because you clip the four toner cartridges in location at the side, after you have raised up the right-hand end of the scanner unit and secured it in position. Even though the yield of the toner cartridges is fairly minimal, no more than 2,500 pages, you are able to install a dozen of these before having to replace the imaging drums. If you have left enough room at the side of the device, upkeep really is easy.
Lexmark has usually supported lots of diverse operating systems and, in addition to Windows and OS X support, this device will work with a wide range of Linux implementations, Novell NetWare, UNIX and Citrix MetaFrame. Software is made up of driver and a status monitoring applet. USB along with network connections are supplied as the norm.
Lexmark quotes 20ppm for both black and colour print from this machine. We managed to get pretty near this with our 20-page print, clocking up 16.4ppm, though the shorter, 5-page document merely recorded 10.0ppm. A 15 x 10 cm colour picture on an A4 sheet printed in 31s. Subjectively, the printer appears fast and this is helped by the remarkably quiet mechanism, while printing or copying.
Copying rates of speed are fair plus the machine does not need a lengthy period to warm up before commencing printing. We saw a single-page colour copy finishing in 22s and our five-page black text document copied inside an exceptional 31s.
An appealing feature of the X543dn is the fact it offers a duplexer built-in as standard, atypical for a colour, laser multifunction. Two-sided print is handled virtually entirely internally, therefore pages go to the rear tray wholly printed. Our 20-side, 10-page text print took 2:08, which gives a duplex rate of 9.4spm, an exceptionally fair throughput with this category of workgroup machine.
The printed output quality implies the device appears to have been intended for regular business use. Black text is thick, razor-sharp and extremely easy to read at its 1,200dpi resolution. Colour graphics are some of the richest we have witnessed coming from a laser, although by default tones come through quite dark. These colours are fantastic for graphs, charts as well as other business graphics.
Where they fall down is in printing photographic content, which comes through appearing heavily filtered or touched-up, with primary colours. However, you may modify these by tweaking the images before print, but by default they seem somewhat garish.
Consumables are made up of two yields of toner cartridge, two different imaging packs, that have either a black drum or drums for all four colours, and also a separate waste toner bottle. They all call for changing at different frequencies, therefore upkeep costs are going to be just a little greater than those printers with incorporated drum and toner cartridges.
Lexmark’s X543dn is a novel device, and prints fairly quickly and provides duplex print as standard. Beneficial expansion via an optional paper tray mitigates against a rather small 250-sheet standard provision. Printed output is ideal for attention-grabbing business documents, however too bright for all those containing pictures. Running costs, specially regarding colour, tend to be high.
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