Lexmark X-series follows HP example
By Ian Burley
21st June - 2001
Hot on the heels of HP’s pdc750, arch-rival Lexmark has announced a pair of all-in-one scanner/copier/printers. Designed to complement Lexmark’s Z-series of inkjet printers, from which they
borrow their Z-line ink-jet engines, the new X83 and X73 combine a flat-bed 1200x600dpi scanner and colour printer. Lexmark lists photo scanning and printing as one of the tasks the new X-series products are designed to handle.
The X73 has a claimed 9 pages per minute (ppm) printing throughput in black and white or 5ppm in colour. These figures are for either text or partial coverage colour graphics. No figures are quoted for photo throughput. The X83 is faster at 12ppm in mono and 6ppm in colour.
A versatile copying system is provided, with 25-400% zooming, up to 99 copies from one original and cloning, which prints several copies of an original on one sheet of paper. Black ICE fax and email software is also bundled, as is Finereader OCR software for creating text documents from scanned originals. Besides being faster than the X73, the X83 also has a small status LCD display.
Designed to be Windows and Mac compatible, connection to the host computer is via USB. The X73 is priced £169 inc.VAT and the X83 £199 inc.VAT. The Mac version of the X83 is scheduled for October release.
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