Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000 A4 Colour All-in-One Inkjet Printer

• Built for heavy-duty printing. Buyers Lab Inc., the imaging industry’s leading independent test lab, successfully ran 20,000 pages paper jamfree.
• Ideal for multi-user workgroups; provides the flexibility of networking via Ethernet or wireless-N.
• The USB port allows for convenient walk-up printing of many popular file formats, including PDF and JPEG, without the use of a PC.
• Backed by LexmarkConnex premiere customer support; free online and phone support minimises wait time with remote printer diagnostics.
• Easily load different types of paper with the optional 550-sheet tray that boosts input capacity up to 850 sheets or 75 envelopes.

• Print documents with the crisp text quality of a laser and the vivid detail of an inkjet.
• Make a lasting impression on customers and do more in-house printing with smear-resistant Vizix Pro inks.
• Print documents on a variety of speciality paper, including card stock, labels and envelopes; accommodates paper sizes up to 8.5 x 14inches (21.5 x 35.5cm). • The Pro4000 includes the features you need and a 50% lower printing cost on laser-quality documents.
• Fewer supplies replacement with high-yield cartridges. Cartridges yield up to 2,500 pages in black and 1,600 pages in colour.
• Prints faster than most similarly-priced colour laser MFPs with speeds up to 21 ppm in black and 14 ppm in colour.
• Enhance efficiency and productivity with time-saving 1-touch solutions, including Scan to Network, Scan to Email and Scan to PDF.
• Quickly scan documents in as fast as 5 seconds per page using the 50-sheet automatic document feeder.

Lexmark’s OfficeEdge Pro 4000, while quite large, is very sleek, with lots of blue LEDs and a clear and readable screen. It certainly won’t mess up your classroom.

The OfficeEdge Pro 4000 is very fast. It took just 17 seconds to print our A4 photo at its highest quality settings, while a page of mixed text and graphics arrived in nine seconds. Text documents take just four seconds for the first page to emerge, with subsequent pages coming through at speeds of 15.4ppm. If immediacy is a major requirement, this is the printer for you.

What’s most impressive is that this performance comes with no compromise on quality. Printed photos look superb, with more detail and richer colours than other printers in this test achieved in over a minute. Text is dark and well defined, and graphics look crisp and punchy. Scans also look good, with sharp images and minimal grain, and you can scan an A4 photograph at 600dpi in just six seconds.

The first thing you notice about the Lexmark is just how long it takes to set it up. Obviously you have to do this only once, but when all you want to do is print a document, and a countdown on the printer screen says you have to wait 12 minutes till you can use it, it seems a bit excessive. Still, the process is very simple, with the software handling all the hard work, and you can opt for USB, Ethernet or 802.11n Wi-Fi connections. In our tests these all worked well, and with no problems in communication

The Lexmark has a 350-sheet input tray, so if you have to share the printer you won’t have to spend much time refilling it. It also features duplex printing, which is surprisingly speedy and quiet. Print costs could be a little more competitive: 4.02p for a colour page isn’t bad, but 1.08p for a black-and-white page is a little high, and that’s with high-capacity cartridges.

The OfficeEdge Pro 4000 is quick, good-looking and reliable, and the only thing that counts against it is that HP’s OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus is slightly cheaper and more economical to run.