Lexmark C543DN Toner Review

A modest business office printing basic, day to day paperwork may possibly find the Lexmark C543DN a very good value - most definitely taking into account a duplexer is available as standard. But in the case you need to print intricate graphics, you will find faster-printing, better-looking results somewhere else.

Setting up the C543DN is basically a simple procedure, with just one problem: the design and style of the setup manual. With 24 languages crammed upon each and every page, looking at even the top line of English could possibly cause lightheadedness - not to mention locating your native tongue someplace in the middle section.

The C543DN creates varying final results on our speed and print quality assessments. It printed text at a reasonable clip of 19.8 pages per minute (ppm) - just about average in comparison with other colour lasers we have examined.

The text by itself appears black and also fairly crisp. Colour graphics turned out to be a more difficult haul, as they came out really slowly: the C543DN's very best speed of 2.8ppm lagged a great deal of the competition by a wide margin. Colour graphics as well as pictures look and feel pretty natural upon plain paper, yet pictures appeared actually even worse on Lexmark's special glossy laser paper: washed-out, grainy, and also strangely tinged. The result: stay with plain paper, and get ready for a wait.

The boxy C543DN's setup has a single attractive added bonus, standard automatic duplexing. Just about everything else is simply standard: a 250-sheet main input tray along with a manual-feed slot, along with a 100-sheet top output spot. If you would like even more paper capacity, a 550-sheet second drawer is expensive at close to £150, having said that it includes a 100-sheet multipurpose feeder. The control panel is definitely minimal but nevertheless , functional, by using a two-line black and white LCD and self-explanatory navigation buttons.

Looking after the C543DN is pretty straightforward. The brand new engine includes keyed toner supplies nestled at the rear of a panel in the side of the printer - that makes for less difficult accessibility as compared to having to open up the printer's guts.

While it is at first ambiguous whether or not you should pull or perhaps push upon the cartridge release levers, directions inside the compartment door eased my bafflement. Trickier, but more rare, jobs consist of exchanging the C543DN's toner reservoir and the print heads.

Low-cost lasers tend to have high-cost consumables, but the C543DN provides some comfort. In a shockingly kind gesture, the device ships along with the high-yield, returnable versions of its Lexmark C543DN toner cartridges: 2500-page black (K) cartridge, and also 2000-page cyan (C), magenta (M), and yellow (Y) cartridges.

Changing these items is not really too bad. Steer clear of the lower-yield, 1000-page supplies, having said that, simply because they're very expensive. It's a false economy.

The Lexmark C543DN would certainly make a decent, low-cost printer with respect to small offices with light graphics requirements.

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