Lexmark X502n colour laser multifunction review

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April 5, 2009

Posted by: George123

"Almost, but not quite"

What I like:

OK for straightforward printing & routine scanning

What I don't like:

automatic document feeder unreliable, and rather faint copies

Review:

What I wanted was a multifunction printer for a small home/office. I have now had this one for about a year

This works fine for straightforward printing of documents etc that are sent to it from the computer. My one quibble here is that it is difficult to set with the default on mono printing, however you try to set this it tends to jump back to colour. Then when printing mono, it still uses the colour cartridges as well as the black, making it unnecessarily expensive to run.

The scanner is not as good as it could be when scanning, particularly with the automatic document feeder. This often distorts the original so that the middle section of each page bulges slightly and does not scan and copy properly, with just the 2 edge sections of the sheet being clear. I also have difficulties scanning or copying pages fainter than normal print -- pencil drawings and notes for instance. However much I adjust the intensity, these come out very faintly. To get a reasonable quality I almost always have to use a separate scanner.

As far as the fax functions are concerned they are fine for me, but I now have very few faxes either sending or receiving.

This is the first multifunction machine I have had, so I have nothing to compare it with, but it does seem significantly more expensive to run than a mono laser printer, even when printing mono. Colour printing is quite good, particularly for text and line drawings. For photographs I always use the inkjet printer, and if scanning photo's etc I use the dedicated scanner