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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 Lexmark Pro915 review

Lexmark’s Pro915 produces excellent print quality, but isn’t very fast or particularly cost effective

Cliff Joseph

Manufacturer: Lexmark
Manufacturer: Lexmark
Pros: Versatile office printer with optional 550-sheet tray; very good print quality, especially text
Cons: Modest printing speeds; coloured inks are very expensive
Price: £269
We rate this 3 out of 5.Star rating:

Lexmark’s Pro915 is a versatile office printer that produces good quality documents. However, its performance and running costs aren’t what they could be.

It’s not the most elegant printer we’ve ever seen, either – it’s so rigidly rectangular that the corners of the unit are actually quite sharp. However, it includes all the main features that you’re likely to require from an office printer, including scanner, copier and fax machine, plus a 50-page document feeder, and automatic two-sided printing.

The Pro915 supports both Ethernet and WiFi networking, so it’ll fit easily into your existing office setup. The 150-sheet input tray should be fine for most small businesses, and there’s an option to buy a second tray that holds 550 sheets if required. We like the way that the LCD screen displays a countdown of the pages as they print out, but it’s annoying that the printer asks you to confirm the paper size every time you put more paper into the tray.

Print quality is very good – text is a particular strength, producing very smooth, delicate text characters. The Pro915 also produces good photo output even on plain paper. However, its speed is disappointing for a printer costing over £250. Lexmark quotes speeds of 10ppm for black and white printing using the Pro915’s ‘laser-quality’ mode, and 6ppm for colour. We used its standard-quality mode in our tests, but still only got 8ppm and 4.5ppm respectively.

Lexmark’s Pro915 produces excellent print quality, but isn’t very fast or particularly cost effective

Running costs are also something of a mixed bag. Lexmark boasts about the low cost of black printing – at just 1.9p per page – but omits to mention the high cost of its coloured ink cartridges. These cost £25 each – £75 in total for the separate cyan, magenta, and yellow inks – which pushes the cost of its colour printing up to a hefty 12.5p per page.

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