The Lexmark X500n measures 21 inches tall, 19 inches wide, and 17.2 inches deep, and weighs a hefty 77 pounds. The multifunction unit of the printer sits atop the printer comprises a flatbed scanner, an automatic document feeder, and the control panel. The control panel is basic and well-organized.

The X500n uses four toner cartridges: black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Each cartridge is offered in regular- and high-capacity versions. The regular black costs $90 and yields about 2,500 prints, while the high-capacity version costs $134.70 and yields about 5,000 pages. Each regular color cartridge costs $98.45 and produces about 1,500 pages, while the high-capacity versions cost $119.70 apiece and yield about 3,000 pages.

The cheap Lexmark X500n features a 366MHz processor and 128MB of memory. It offers both USB and Ethernet connectors, so it can be connected directly to a PC or on a network for a multi-user environment and also provides faxing for $500.

At scanning, the Lexmark X500n cheap printer is the fastest printer compared to other same price printers. Printer prints 6.30ppm for grayscale and 6.23ppm for color. Finally, for copying using the automatic document feeder, it is a speed demon: 14.65ppm. This machine is a workhorse! Its black text prints is basically perfect. Black graphics were also very good.

The white-and-light-gray unit of this cheap printer stands 16.9 inches wide, 11.5 inches deep, and 6.9 inches tall and weighs a light 10.4 pounds. The scanner lid opens to reveal an A4-size flatbed scanner. The X2500′s control panel is rudimentary, consisting of just six buttons, four of which are start buttons for various tasks.

Lexmark X2500 contain two-ink cartridges: one black and one tricolor (Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow). The black tank can be replaced with a photo ink tank for six-color photo prints. The feature set of Lexmark’s cheap X2500 printer is standard for a low-cost all-in-one. For a $60 all-in-one, the Lexmark X2500 offers a surprisingly full range of features.

The printer prints text at the rate of 4.34 pages per minute. It also printed 4×6 photos fairly quickly–0.77ppm—again. The X2500 fared well in scanning tasks too: 5.36ppm for grayscale and 4.45ppm for color. The quality of the Lexmark X2500 did an impressive job for the price. Texts obtained from the cheap X2500 are nicely dark and looked great at arm’s length. Color gradients are also smooth and color blocks were nicely saturated. The photo elements displayed decent detail as well. The X2500 did a pretty good job with the grayscale scan: it was sharp, and it handled patterns well,

This mono laser printer includes a toner cartridge. The E450dn ships with a 3,000-page cartridge. E450dn offer cheap cartridge at $157 for 3,500-pages and a $267 for 9,000-pages. Both cartridges also are available at a great discount under Lexmark’s return cartridge program. Under this program, the 3,500-page unit costs $132 and the 9,000-page unit costs $242. E450dn contain a 366MHz processor and 32MB of onboard memory (expandable to 160MB).

The Lexmark E450dn is a little speed demon of a laser printer. It prints out a text document at a rate of 24.13 pages per minute and a page of mixed text and graphics at an impressive 25.47 pages per minute. The Lexmark 450dn displayed excellent text quality, with clear, sharp characters unmarred by jaggedness.