Comments on: X544DN MFP COLOR LASER 25/25 PPM P/S/C/F DUPLEX FRNT PIC BRIDGE http://www.california-screen-printers.com/x544dn-mfp-color-laser-2525-ppm-pscf-duplex-frnt-pic-bridge/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 20:39:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Neurasthenic http://www.california-screen-printers.com/x544dn-mfp-color-laser-2525-ppm-pscf-duplex-frnt-pic-bridge/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 Neurasthenic Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:07:17 +0000 http://www.california-screen-printers.com/x544dn-mfp-color-laser-2525-ppm-pscf-duplex-frnt-pic-bridge/#comment-1369 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. <br /> <br />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, which as of the current release does not work with multi-page scans on this printer. Finally, though you can connect it to your network via ethernet, on the Mac at least you will need to hook up a USB cable too in order to use the scanner. 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, which as of the current release does not work with multi-page scans on this printer. Finally, though you can connect it to your network via ethernet, on the Mac at least you will need to hook up a USB cable too in order to use the scanner.

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