Lexmark C530dn – Printer with PANTONE Color Simulation
Utilizing a technology to help better produce solid colors, called, PANTONE, the Lexmark C530dn offers a better way to produce solid color imagery, such as pie charts or graphs, directly from one's desktop. It also offers moderate print speeds and performance, as well as a footprint small enough for personal use.
The Lexmark C530dn, with its fairly average specification list, could also be considered for sharing among a small workgroup if the demand for color printing was low, but still necessary. With black and white print speeds topping out at up to 24 pages per minute and color coming close behind at 22 pages per minute, the Lexmark C530dn's speeds are typical for what one would expect in a color laser printer of its stature. Its times to first page out run similarly at 10.5 seconds for black and white and as fast as 11 seconds for color.
These speeds are made possible by a 375 MHz processor that is paired with 128 MBs of included RAM. Random Access Memory can be upgraded to no more than a total of 640 MBs and flash memory is also accepted. Print quality runs at a true resolution of 1200 x 1200 dots per inch, but color prints are optimized by PANTONE solid color simulations, as well as 4800 color quality.
Connectivity is made possible by a USB port, as the Lexmark C530dn abandons the Parallel ports seen on earlier Lexmark models in the series. This, being an "n" model, includes an Ethernet port as well, along with twice the standard memory of the core unit. Optional connectivity includes external and internal wireless print servers and a gigabit Ethernet option. Printer languages included are PostScript 3 and PCL 6, which should cover almost all current systems.
The Lexmark C530dn offers a direct print format for PDF 1.5, which makes printing from a PDF file faster than ever, and both Windows and Mac operating systems are compatible with the unit, along with Linux. One of the major selling points of the printer is its small footprint. Its dimensions of 17 in. x 16 in. x 19 in. (W x D x H) make it fairly reasonable in size and its weight of 57 pounds is also very manageable, considering its color capabilities.
With a maximum monthly duty cycle of up to 65,000 printed pages, the unit is even capable of a considerable amount of print volume, especially for a small workgroup printer. Its recommended monthly duty is much lower, however, at only 500 ' 2,800 pages. Its paper storage comes in the form of a 250 sheet standard drawer and a 100 sheet multipurpose feeder, a great improvement on the previous, single feed bypass slot. Unfortunately, with the addition of the 100 sheet bypass tray, Lexmark removed the 500 sheet paper expansion option, making the unit's maximum paper storage total only 350 sheets. Though the Lexmark C530dn is limited in many ways, it is small enough to be considered for personal, color printing office demands.
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