Lexmark X543DN toner cartridges

Lexmark X543DN toner cartridges are available as standard or Return Program cartridges, as the Return cartridges offer a saving we only list these cartridges for this printer. There are two capacities of each cartridge available and we recommend purchasing the High Yield toner cartridges as these offer the cheapest cost per print. Cartridge Concept offer all cartridges for this printer at discount prices.

Lexmark X543dn Printer Review

At in excess of 35kg, the Lexmark X543dn is no featherweight and it is bulky enough that the flatbed scanner, with Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), fails to look as large as on equivalent devices from some other brands.

The ADF can easily take up to fifty sheets, this is really a good quantity. There is a single-sheet feed regarding special media along with a smart discretionary 2nd tray can be acquired, which in turn includes both a 550-sheet paper tray along with a 100-sheet multipurpose feed.

The primary control panel, which goes the total width of the machine, is sparsely populated, to some extent because this appliance does not contain fax facilities. The two-line by 16-character, backlit Liquid crystal display is enough to display status messages and menus, however sometimes text has got to auto-scroll to fit. There exists a number pad, in order to print safely and securely, with PIN entry, though there's no front-panel USB socket. To get you need to spend a bit more for the X544dn.

Actual physical set up is likewise abnormal, since you clip the four toner cartridges in to location at the side, after you've put up the right-hand end of the actual scanner unit and locked it in position. Even though the yield of the toner cartridges is quite small, a maximum of 2,500 pages, it is possible to put in a dozen of these ahead of needing to switch the imaging drums. If you have enough room at the side of the device, upkeep really is easy.

Lexmark has continually supported many different operating systems and, in addition to Windows and OS X support, this particular device will run with many Linux implementations, Novell NetWare, UNIX and Citrix MetaFrame. Software includes a driver along with a status monitoring applet. USB and network connections are supplied as normal.

Lexmark quotes 20ppm for both black and colour print with this unit. We got pretty near to this with our 20-page print, clocking up 16.4ppm, although the shorter, 5-page document just recorded 10.0ppm. A 15 x 10 cm colour picture on an A4 sheet printed in 31s. Subjectively, the printer seems quick and this also is helped by a remarkably hushed mechanism, whenever printing or copying.

Copying rates of speed are fair and the unit does not require a lengthy period to warm up before beginning to print. We observed a single-page colour copy finishing in 22s and our five-page black text document copied within an exceptional 31s.

A worthwhile element of the X543dn is the fact that there is a duplexer built-in as standard, abnormal for a colour, laser multifunction. Two-sided print is taken care of nearly totally internally, so pages go to the rear tray fully printed. Our 20-side, 10-page text print required 2:08, which gives a duplex rate of 9.4spm, an exceptionally good throughput with this category of workgroup unit.

The printed output level of quality implies the machine was made quite definitely for typical business use. Black text is thick, sharp and very simple to read at its 1,200dpi resolution. Colour graphics are some of the richest we've observed by a laser, though by default tones come through fairly dark. These colours are fantastic for graphs, charts along with other business graphics.

Where they fall down is in printing photographic stuff, which comes through looking seriously filtered or touched-up, with primary colours. Presumably, you can alter these simply by tweaking the images prior to print, however by default they appear quite garish.

There are two yields of Lexmark X543dn toner cartridge, two different imaging packs, that have either simply a black drum or drums for all four colours, and also a separate waste toner container. All of them demand changing at different frequencies, thus upkeep costs are going to be slightly more than those printers with combined drum and toner cartridges.

Lexmark's X543dn is a novel machine, which prints fairly swiftly and offers duplex print as standard. Helpful expansion via an optional paper tray mitigates against a rather meagre 250-sheet standard provision. Printed output is well suited for attention-grabbing business documents, however too bright for all those that contain pictures. Operating costs, especially for colour, have proven to be high.