Lexmark Printer - T642 review

June 7, 2008

When you’re starting a business, it is very difficult to know how big will arrive and choose their computer equipment, including peripherals such as printers, is something like a kind of immersion. However, it is not necessary if you choose a printer that can expand within their organization to live up to the events. Lexmark T642 is the ability to expand into large, but even in its basic configuration is very useful for working groups mono laser printer.

Conventionally designed, has a large, 500-sheet paper tray at the bottom and an output tray equivalent established in its top surface. A 100-sheet multi-function tray pulls down from the front panel and a combined drum and toner cartridge slots in easily when all hinge on the front panel.

There is a backlit LCD to display status information, great start and stop buttons and - unusually - a plug USB 2 and a number keypad. Both of these last two items have special functions. The USB socket 2 allows you to bring documents to the printer in a unit of memory, navigate through them using the screen and print out of the printer. The software supports PDF, TIF and JPG, although strangely no Word documents.

The number of keyboard is used for an installation called Lexmark printer and Hold. This allows you to initiate a print job from the PC, but have only been action by the T642 when you get to him and enter their four-digit PIN code. The idea here is that you can print material, even when you’re sharing a printer among several people in a working group.

A list of accessories you can add to the printer gives an idea of how it is versatile. You can fit three extra 500-sheet paper trays, or a 2000-sheet tray in bulk, and a duplex. It is somewhat surprising that no duplex facility already built on a mono laser printer costing more than 500 pounds, however. In the output side, you can add a mail sorter, up to three boxes of departure and finished stapling.

Curiously, for a printer designed to be highly scalable, only connections are supplied as standard parallel and USB 2: you have to pay £ 120 extra for T642n to networking have been built in.

Output quality is generally good, clean, spatter-free text and graphics business reasonable, although grayscale images such as photographs, some suffer from ringing in the areas of tone and are not as easy as they could be. Trying to print on the second part of the pages, using the manual duplex in installing the printer driver, also caused some pages to increase in our review machine.

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