Lexmark X 500

Very inexpensive to buy Impressively sturdy paper tray

Pricey toner; yellowish, grainy photos No automatic duplexing available

Lexmark's characteristically smooth, automated installation leaves you with useful software, including ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint for OCR and Presto Page Manager for scanning. The largely wordless setup poster has big, easy-to-understand...

Text print quality, (relatively) fast set up, ease of use, shared network use, price

Copy quality: lacks detail, bulky, weight

A bulky device but one with that is a remarkably polished colour laser performer and at a cracking price, spoilt only by a lack of detail in copy mode and slow scanning.

Although it's slow with scanning and its copies lack some detail, this MFD is fast, easy to use and a strong overall performer.

Produces high-quality prints very quickly; low print costs; network ready; built-in ADF.

No junk fax blocker or secure fax receive mode; no way to save fax groups; walk-up scanning is not enabled with USB connections; grayscale scanning needs some improvement.

Although it's missing some fax features that many small offices and work groups find useful, the Lexmark X502n produces fast, high-quality prints. This is one laser multifunction that has a lot going for it.

This is a low-cost colour laser all-in-one, but a few obvious corners have been cut to reach the price. The lack of a multi-purpose feed, the complicated consumables set-up and the relatively high page costs detract from the overall value proposition....

Text quality, ease of use, (relatively) fast set up, shared network use, price

Copy quality: lacks detail, bulky, weight

The Lexmark X500n is an affordable yet powerful colour laser multifunction (MFP) scanner, printer, and copier with network capability that will make a great small or home office work horse. It lacks fax functionality (one of the ways Lexmark kept the...

Speedy, inexpensive, scanner software is well programmed and user friendly, produces very good text and colour-document prints, creates high-quality scans

Setup instructions are unclear, reds are too strong in colour prints, some details don't carry over when making copies, scanner is slow

At £299, the Lexmark X500n is a bargain for a device of its kind. Although it's slow with scanning and copies lack some detail, this MFP is fast, easy to use, and a strong overall performer.

Although it's slow with scanning and its copies lack some detail, this MFD is fast, easy to use and a strong overall performer.