The Lexmark X4270 All-In-One is an affordable four-color inkjet multifunction printer that prints either by itself or via your PC. It faxes, scans, and copies monochrome and color documents.
The cheap Lexmark X4270 All-In-One is a squat and lightweight machine that measures an average 20.4 inches wide, 11.7 inches deep, and 7.3 inches high and weighs a light 9.1 pounds. The printer increases its height by 4 inches by extending the top-loading input and the flimsy-feeling front output trays. All the Lexmark X4270′s controls are on a front panel, easy to reach and use. Underneath the control panel sit two cartridges that supply ink for the multifunction four-color printing, faxing, scanning, and copying capabilities. The Lexmark X4270 comes with 16MB of RAM and is not upgradable, a problem for small businesses. The Lexmark X4270 All-In-One is best at faxing, scanning, and copying. The fast and quiet faxing includes useful features such as manual answering for a shared fax/phone line, and on-hook dial to worm a fax through an automated answering system.
The Lexmark cheap X4270′s main input tray holds 100 sheets of paper, and the output tray holds 50 sheets, which is fairly small for office use. The Lexmark cheap X4270 also bundles Lexmark’s fax, printing, and photo-editing software and the Solution Center for troubleshooting and how-to information.
The Lexmark cheap X4270 All-In-One is good in text printing. The monochrome text is printed at 4.6 pages per minute (ppm). A color 8×10 photo took the Lexmark X4270 a poky 5.2 minutes per page (mpp). Color graphics prints were also mediocre, with great detail but poor color matching; the whole image looked dithered and dotty.