The professional-looking Lexmark X7170 inkjet multitasks to produce faxes, prints, scans, and copies for a small office or a home. It excels as a photo printer, and a built-in PictBridge USB port allows quick digital camera prints..Shiny, faux aluminum and sturdy, dark-gray matte plastic comprise the shell of the attractive Lexmark X7170. A clear, black-plastic automatic document feeder (ADF) rests on top and holds 50 sheets of paper.
The top cover of the Lexmark X7170 combines the ADF, input, and exit trays plus a scanner-glass cover. The X7170′s round-edged control panel, which slopes downward from under the top cover, is easy to see and operate. The centerpieces of the control panel are a two-line, 32-character LCD panel, a 12-button alphanumeric keypad for faxing, and a button that chooses Copy, Fax, and Scan modes. X7170 uses single cartridges for photo, color, and black inkA 150-sheet paper-input tray and a 50-sheet exit-paper tray, which includes an adapter for printing envelopes and 4×6-inch photos, rest at the base of the X7170.
This cheap printer prints out only 1.1 pages per minute (ppm) for printed text and took up to 9.6 minutes to finish an 8×10-inch high-resolution photo. Other inkjet printers, such as the Epson CX4600, spend just 3.0 to 5.0 minutes on the same job. The X7170 cheap printer performed a bit better in our color-graphics tests, reproducing a test document with excellent color matching, good details, and pale but otherwise accurate hues. Photographs showed a pronounced magenta color cast.