Saturday, September 21, 2013

Lexmark C544DN Color Laser Printer

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With increased speeds and access to larger toner cartridges, the Lexmark C544dn is perfect for small to mid-size workgroups who need to bring their important business documents to life with a color laser printer. By driving down costs and increasing efficiency with automatic two-siding printing, the C544dn is the right choice for your business. The C544dn produces high-quality color documents fast and makes them easier to obtain with a Direct USB port for quick access. Also, with its ultra-co...
  • An efficient solution for hard-working workgroups who value color's ability to impress; Get a product built to last with a 55,000 page duty cycle.
  • Compact design makes the C544dn perfect for desktop printing in color; Retrieve your color prints fast with rapid first page out - as fast as 12 seconds; Add color to your documents fast - print up to 25 ppm!
  • Extra-High Yield toner cartridges available for extra-low printing costs; Includes high-yield toner cartridges for a great value.
  • Save paper and the environment with automatic two-sided printing; with energy-saving Eco Mode.
  • Experience less downtime with a 1-Year Next Business Day Exchange Warranty; Connect multiple users to one device with advanced ethernet networking capabilities
  • An efficient solution for hard-working workgroups who value color's ability to impress; Get a product built to last with a 55,000 page duty cycle.
  • Compact design makes the C544dn perfect for desktop printing in color; Retrieve your color prints fast with rapid first page out - as fast as 12 seconds; Add color to your documents fast - print up to 25 ppm!
  • Extra-High Yield toner cartridges available for extra-low printing costs; Includes high-yield toner cartridges for a great value.
  • Save paper and the environment with automatic two-sided printing; with energy-saving Eco Mode.
  • Experience less downtime with a 1-Year Next Business Day Exchange Warranty; Connect multiple users to one device with advanced ethernet networking capabilities

This Laser Printers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Good but not great
After a reload of the OS, my old HP laser was no longer compatible with my Mac computer, so I went looking for a color laser that did duplex printing (trying to be a bit green). My use is at home for personal as well as some business printing.

The set up was easy and the instructions clear. Printing in B&W single sided is fast and of high quality. I find the color printing to be a bit muted and not photo-like, but still acceptable. The biggest negative is the duplex printing. It works, but... When I select two-sided printing, it takes forever to print. It is so slow that I have given up using it completely. As I was hurrying out of the house on a road trip, I tried to print a Google map in duplex, and it took so long I simply left the house without the map. I don't know what is going on inside, but this is so bad I'm shocked it ever was released.

Once I ignore duplex printing, and treat it like a nice feature I will rarely if ever use, then I am...

2. Excellent Except for Envelope Printing
I've had this printer for over a year in my workplace, and it has been excellent for everything except printing envelopes. This is our networked printer, so our 5-person office all use it. We do a lot of printing and a lot of it is graphical and colorful.

When it comes to printing a single envelope, it jams the printer. We get around that by printing labels instead or using a different network printer to do envelopes. It was out of warranty when I discovered the issue; I wonder if it was a manufacturer's defect in our machine (and may not be a problem in most machines.)

Print speed is very fast (it just takes about 15 seconds to warm up before first page out, then easily prints text only at 30 pages per minute (ppm)). It takes a long time to print graphics-heavy PowerPoint presentations, but if you're printing multiple copies of a presentation, the first print is very slow and subsequent copies are quicker. Color graphics are excellent and crisp, and so is black...

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Good value for an economy color laser
I replaced an aging tank-like Konica-Minolta color laser which never worked right and cost a fortune to maintain. This printer has worked fine with Mac OSX in a wireless Airport Express environment for two years. It did have a failed power supply for the fuser which gave error messages. It was fixed in home for free. I have been pleased with the cost of replacement cartridges. They seem to last longer than my former color laser and cost less than half to replace. You are replacing toner only, not an entire roller assembly. The toner is available everywhere. It is not fast at start-up nor when printing Adobe PDF's. I upgraded memory and added a second paper drawer. For some reason when the paper runs out on the top drawer, it does not automatically shift to the next drawer as other printers do. Maybe this is a software issue that I have not found.
Pros: Less expensive toner replacement than others; Has worked with Mac OSX; Has a single feed slot; compact.
Cons: Slow start-up...
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