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The Lexmark E250d is a monochrome laser printer and an ideal solution to everyday printing needs of the average small office. It would suit almost any situation as it is fast enough for the most demanding users, and produces prints of a quality high enough that you can’t help but be impressed.

At 28 pages per minute, the E250d is plenty quick enough for most users. The built-in duplexer is a nice bonus for a printer at this level, offering the ability to print double sided. Text prints are reproduced in high quality 1200 dpi, with clean lines and crisp edging. Image production is surprising, appearing in even better quality than the text. We know that images and photos aren’t the strong point of any laser printer, but it surprised us that the images were of such a high quality with the E250d that they outshone the text print.

The E250d would suit a small of home business with a low demand user base. It isn’t designed, or marketed for high duty cycle requirements. Build quality, cost effectiveness and reliability are the main selling points of this printer, and where its strengths really lie. Being so simple, the E250d is very easy to manage. There is no LCD screen, two buttons and five LED status lights. Any management of the printer will have to be done via the drivers.

The paper drawer holds 250 sheets, which is upgradeable to 800. It can be connected via USB or network with driver setup and administration is as easy as it is possible to be. Like others in the Lexmark range, adding this device to a network takes no time at all. The duplexer is unexpected at this price, but works well and didn’t perform as though any compromises were made to make it fit within budget.

The toner cartridges are easy to manage and replace. The cartridges and drums are readily available online and are quite good value for money. A single high yield toner cartridge is good for 4500 pages and retails for $50 at Quikshiptoner.com, whereas a drum will cost a mere $70 for 25000 pages.

The E250d is a good printer that provides prints of great quality. Ownership costs are reasonable enough to be worthy of consideration for anyone who is looking for a mono laser printer.

Having to buy cartridges for your inkjet all the time is a real problem with all of us who have to print a lot of documents every day. It’s strange how people tend to think that they have saved money by buying a normal inkjet but fail to realize that in the long run it costs more as you have to change cartridges more frequently with an inkjet than replacing toners if you have a laser printer. I have a lot of printing to do at the office, and recently I switched over to the Lexmark C524 color laser printer.

The laser printer saves me a trip to the store every few weeks for buying cartridges. The Lexmark C524 has four toners installed for black, magenta, yellow and cyan. The color prints resolution is 1200x1200 dpi and the image quality is great. I have much better color prints than I used to have with the inkjet. Not to mention the fact that any photo in high-quality costs much more with the inkjet.

The Lexmark C524 advertises a speed of 20 pages per minute. It is a little less than that in practical use as the machine takes thirty to 50 seconds in warming up. So for single prints, you have to wait for a while but the average speed is fine for batch printing. Toners need not be replaced that frequently and if one color toner runs out you need to replace that only so it’s still more economical than the inkjet.

I found the software that comes with the printer pretty simple to install and run. The printer is also compatible with Unix on the PC. It might not take you more than ten minutes to start printing after unloading the box. I have not yet encountered any software problems and the printer does not jam, something that frequently takes place with my inkjet. This model in the series has both a USB and parallel port but there is no Ethernet option so if you have a large workgroup using the same printer than there is a little problem with the Lexmark C524 as you cannot connect it to over a network.

The superior quality of color printing, especially high-quality photos, and the economy of the Lexmark C524 makes me really satisfied with my purchase and I recommend this model of laser printer for all those small offices where there is a lot of color printing required.

To print a config page from the LaserJet 3020 or LaserJet 3030:

- Press the Menu/Enter button
- Scroll to the right until "Reports" is displayed
- Press Menu/Enter
- Scroll to the right until "Config. Report" is displayed
- Press Menu/Enter