Excellent Lexmark printer deal

dkmulvey

Just a heads-up on Lexmark doing an excellent deal at the moment on their X544DN multifunction printer at www. lexmarkonline. co. uk (sorry about the mullered link, the forum doesn't allow proper links from newbies). Usual price £780.85, they're currently doing it for £275.43 including VAT and delivery.

Specs:

• Colour laser printer (23ppm)
• USB port for direct printing
• Scanner (with auto feed unit for scanning lots of pages, also a duplexer to scan both sides)
  • Formats: tiff, hpeg, pdf
  • Scan to e-mail
  • Scan to workstation
• Copier
• Fax
• Network enabled
• Duplexing unit (prints on both sides of paper)
• Drivers for NT, XP, Vista, 2003 Server, Macs, etc..

Got one in for our office, and can confirm the printing quality is excellent. The supplies are a bit on the pricey side, so probably wouldn't recommend if you print a lot of stuff, but for us the initial cost of the printer was so cheap it more than subsidised the extra cost of toner for the foreseeable future.

ariba10

I had a Lexmark once.

It was cheaper to buy a new printer than buy a replacement cartridge.

withabix

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That does seem good though. Are Lexmark lasers as digustingly expensive to run as their inkjets?

withabix

ariba10 wrote: »

I had a Lexmark once.

It was cheaper to buy a new printer than buy a replacement cartridge.

But that was an inkjet!

dkmulvey

withabix wrote: »

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Excellent Lexmark printer deal


That does seem good though. Are Lexmark lasers as digustingly expensive to run as their inkjets?

Running costs are a little higher than alternatives from HP, Canon, etc., however those can be offset by the lower initial cost of the printer. It all boils down to how much you're going to use it, I suppose.

For us the usage would be quite low, and one of the requirements was that it had to have a duplexing unit. For all other printer makes I was looking at £400+ for a multifunction with duplexer, so for me it was a no brainer.