Lexmark X544DN Mfp Color Laser 25/25 Ppm P/s/c/f Duplex Frnt Pic Bridge

This quality of the printing, scanning, and faxing from this unit is excellent. It seems to have Lexmark's robust design and construction, though I won't be able to say for certain without a few more years of use. The directions from the front panel during setup, faxing, etc., are useful. As with many networkable printers, it has a web server built-in, from which one can change major setting without any special client software. This is nice, and makes the printer in some regards 'future proof,' in that you don't need Lexmark to continue to create updated versions of the driving software in order to use the device with new and potentially incompatible OS revisions.

It does, however, have quirks. If the printer is waking from sleep, the time to first print is longer than I am used to. In an environment where the printer is used only occasionally, this may be a problem. Also, it has basically no Mac OS X software. For scanning, you have to use Apple's Image Capture program,...Read more

This printer was surprisingly small in size to be a color laser MFP. It replaces an HP2840 that died (falsely claiming a jam that couldn't be cleared, even by a printer repair place). I researched MFP devices from Samsung, Canon, Epson, HP, looking for one that was Mac Snow Leopard compatible, had duplex printing capability, color laser printing, and good printing speed. This had all of those features at a price that matched or beat its competition, on a printer that can print more than 20 ppm, both color and B&W, all the others had less than 20 ppm printing speed. I just received the printer today and am pleased with its printing speed and quietness of operation. The HP2840 was a very noisy machine, slow to start up, poor Snow Leopard support (only print, no fax or scan).

If you're using it as a network printer, the only way to scan is via the web interface, but if you hook it up via USB, then you can scan more directly from the computer. I think that's a bit clunky,...Read more

When I first unpacked this printer, I was a bit overwhelmed at the thought of setting it up. It turned out that the instructions were easy to follow and we were in business the first time. There is a known glitch with print quality that occurs during shipping. When setting up for the first time it is important to remove the cartridges and the waste container and clean the lenses with a lint free cloth. If you don't do this there will be lines and spaces in the printouts. I had to call customer service which took a while. There is also some documentation on their customer service website. Printing, scanning, copying and faxing are all easy and produce good quality results.