Lexmark X544dn

Good Printer/Etc.

Still learning all about the machine, as it took awhile to get help setting it up where it belonged. So far it prints very well and fast, Size is smaller than some of this type they have a helpful video to show how to replace toner cartridges. I feel it will work nicely in my office and the paper tray is sturdy.

Amazon fedexed the machine to me very quickly, and have been prompt with any other purchases or questions I have had like buying my Kindle and books purchased. Unfortunately the fedex man would not take the box upstairs for me, so I had to wait until I could get my Granddaughter's husband over to do this and help me put it on the printer stand.

Overall very nice printer/fax/scanner

This printer was surprisingly small in size to be a color laser MFP. It replaces an HP2840 that died (falsely claiming a jam that couldn't be cleared, even by a printer repair place). I researched MFP devices from Samsung, Canon, Epson, HP, looking for one that was Mac Snow Leopard compatible, had duplex printing capability, color laser printing, and good printing speed. This had all of those features at a price that matched or beat its competition, on a printer that can print more than 20 ppm, both color and B&W, all the others had less than 20 ppm printing speed. I just received the printer today and am pleased with its printing speed and quietness of operation. The HP2840 was a very noisy machine, slow to start up, poor Snow Leopard support (only print, no fax or scan).

If you're using it as a network printer, the only way to scan is via the web interface, but if you hook it up via USB, then you can scan more directly from the computer. I think that's a bit clunky, and Lexmark should make a more sensible driver for it, but at least you can scan/print/fax from the network in Snow Leopard.

Overall, it seems to be a very nice device, and I think I made the best choice.

a nice printer with some software quirks under OS X

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.

Please give me a drivers software cd of x 544