Features:
- Up to 4,800 dpi print quality
- Black and color copies with no PC required
- Up to 12 ppm printing and 10 cpm copying
- 600 x 1,200 dpi flatbed scanning with 48-bit color
- Easy scanning to PC fax platform
Description:
A smart, high-resolution multifunction machine, ideal for the home or small office, the Lexmark X85 is a capable printer, scanner, and standalone copier. In a smart black and silver livery, it looks like a desktop photocopier, and can easily perform this function in both black and white and color. To make copies, there's no need to connect the machine to a computer, as the two-line LCD and panel of 15 buttons provide all the control you need. Indeed, one can do a lot from the control panel, including checking ink levels, enlarging up to poster size, and adjusting the machine's settings. However, the LCD is not easy to read and has no backlight, so you'll need a good room light source. Paper feeds from a bin at the back of the machine through to an output tray that slides out from the front. You place your original on the glass of the X85's flatbed scanning engine. There's no multisheet feeder, so you'll have to copy page by page, but copy times are quite reasonable, even in color. In our tests, print quality was generally very good, with precise, dense black text and well-reproduced colours. There are two photo print modes, photo and max photo, but for most purposes the much quicker photo mode will be sufficient. There was little obvious difference in the printed output, although dithered sections of fine tone were marginally improved. Print times varied between good, for straight text prints (a five-page text document finished in just over 1.25 minutes) and extremely sluggish (a 3-by-5-inch photo in max photo mode, which took just under 8 minutes). Despite the low-contrast LCD and slow photo printing time, the X85 is a good general-purpose multifunction device, offering strong software support that is ideal when space is at a premium. --Simon Williams
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