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Laser colour printing at speed with the Lexmark C534dn printer.
September 4th, 2010 by admin
Colour lasers for small businesses invest most of their time churning out monochrome business documents.However they in addition need to have the ability to include colour as well as, occasionally, produce top of the range looking colour presentations as well as photos.The Lexmark C534dn can do pretty much everything with speed and ease – and at an amount which in turn won’t break your budget.By having a 100,000-page duty cycle, the C534dn is actually a heavy-duty unit built to be shared on a small venture Lan, despite being light enough (just) to be held by a single person.In addition, it includes the toner cartridges pre installed therefore installation will be just a matter of sliding it out from the box, removing the packaging and attaching it to power and Lan outlets.USB and Ethernet interfaces are provided as normal on this product, together with an integrated multi-protocol print server, with the typical web-based interface for remote management. A duplexer, for double-sided printing, additionally comes as standard and works well.Nevertheless, the built-in, 250-sheet paper tray isn’t up to scratch on a laser designed for shared network use, and we would strongly suggest the optional extra 550-sheet tray made to fit below.Be aware though, that when set up to take A4, the paper trays thrust outward from the back increasing the footprint by a good three inches.On the good side, the front of the primary tray folds down to expose the 100-sheet multi-purpose feeder, that is really a pretty nice feature. The four toner cartridges are conveniently reachable from the front.The Lexmark C534dn toner cartridges delivered with it are rated for up to 6,000 pages, with a selection of yield on replacements of up to 7,000 pages for colour and 8,000 pages for the black toner.Photoconductor units for the Lexmark black and colour toner cartridges will be required every 20,000 pages. Even though the cartridges are easy to swap, the process can be quite messy.When it comes to quality, it is critical to stress that, like most business laser printers, you should not purchase the Lexmark C534dn exclusively for professional graphics printing. For run of the mill business documents, nevertheless, it’s superb and, if needed, it may also create impressive colour presentations, with many different controls to help fine-tune output.That being said, even so, we found it better to left untouched rather then waste time and paper attempting to better on the defaults.An additional feature of the C534dn is its user-friendly user interface, which has a big colour display and related keypad. Making use of these, you are able to hold documents on the printer securely, then have them print by typing in a relevant Pin code. Additionally, there is a USB port for making prints without turning on the computer of Pdf documents from a memory stick.On the performance front, the Lexmark laser acquitted itself well. The first page took about 11 seconds to appear, after which monochrome A4 pages are produced at up to 22ppm and barely a bit more slowly (21ppm) where colour is included.On the downside printed pages are dumped in to a well at the top, without any finishing possibilities. Neither can you really add a customized envelope feeder, which could be a problem for some purchasers.