Lexmark X1150

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Lexmark X1150

Gagan Gupta, May 21, 2004 0000 hrs IST

Buying a scanner and a printer separately can turn out to be a major pain.

Good scanner, Cost effective in the short-run

Slow printer, Bad print quality, Bad print economy

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Black and White Resolution Test: We printed an EIA Resolution chart (1956), containing high-contrast vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines as well as curves of various sizes.
Result: The overall print quality was pretty grainy, and the grey color had a bluish tinge. Once again, all black lines had reddish outlines.
Time Taken: 26 minutes 35 seconds

Color Test: We printed a sheet with gradients of RGB and CMYK bands, which start from the darkest shade to the lightest, eventually fading to white.
Result: All the color bands were slightly grainy and the black band showed terrible banding in both the horizontal as well as the vertical prints. The Yellow and the Cyan bands showed traces of purple in some areas.
Time Taken: 21 minutes 4 seconds

Border Test: This document contained lines stretching out all the way to the edge of the document, to test the printer's borderless printing capabilities.
Result: The Lexmark X1150 did not support full borderless printing. It left a half-centimeter gap from all edges except the bottom edge where it left a half-inch gap.

500 dpi Image Test: We printed a 500 dpi image with minute details and varying colors.
Result: The colors were very inaccurate and the overall print was grainy.
Time Taken: 22 minutes 23 seconds

600 dpi Image Test: Same as the 500 dpi test, only done with a higher resolution (600 dpi) image.
Result: Just like the 500 dpi print test, the color reproduction was pretty bad with a noticeable amount of graininess.
Time Taken: 25 minutes 11 seconds

Speed Test: Here we printed 20 identical documents at normal quality and then calculated the printer's speed in documents per minute.
Result: The printer was capable of printing 6.3 pages per minute, which isn't bad at all considering the printer gave the worst print speeds in all of the above tests.

Print Run: Normal quality prints were taken of a document containing some amount of text and a multi-color image to test the cartridge life of a printer.
Result: 180 total pages in one cartridge lifespan.

As you can see from the above test results the printer aspect of the MFD was pretty much one of the worst we've seen, not only in the print quality, but also in speed and print capacity per cartridge. Taking the costs and the cartridge capacity in mind, the print economy comes to Rs. 9.98 per page, which isn't too good, considering that MFDs are mainly used at offices as an all-in-one solution.