The Scan button puts the X83 on standby until you fire up the Lexmark control software, while Scan To lets you control the operation from the hardware. The X83's console has Scan and Scan To, a couple of buttons for scanning to the computer. These are both capable programs, though we found ABBYY's FineReader OCR had difficulty properly formatting tables from some documents.īut most scanning operations can be executed from the hardware itself. MGI PhotoSuite 8.1 and OCR software from ABBYY round out the software bundle. Despite the X83's lack of fax hardware, it smoothly acts as a front end for PC-based faxing. The program allows you to scan directly to a file, to e-mail, to an application, and to any fax software you might have. Visible as a little icon in the system tray, it took up only about half a megabyte of RAM and didn't cause any grief in day-to-day operation on our test systems.
Lexmark's scanning application is top-notch stuff, too. On plain paper, text looked good, but quality dipped slightly. On coated paper, text and graphics looked excellent, with accurate color matching and sharp detail. When it came to quality tests, however, the X83 never missed a beat. Next to the PSC 750's score of 1ppm, this looks a little disappointing. However, pages with mixed color text and graphics came slower than those of the X83's competitors, at a little less than. Xerox WorkCentre M940 and the HP PSC 750 by. It printed text at 4.2 pages per minute (ppm)-faster than the The crux of any multifunction device, of course, is its printing, and the X83 did generally well in CNET Labs' tests. A copy-quality button cycles through three options-Photo, Normal, and Quick-and there's a menu button for more complicated functions such as Clone (for filling the page with multiple copies of a smaller image) and Poster (for blowing up the image across multiple pages). Furthermore, there are two copy buttons: one for color and one for monochrome prints. To lighten/darken, enlarge, or choose the number of copies, use the respective function buttons. To copy or scan an image, you slip a document onto the photocopier-style scanning window and press one of the buttons on the X83's well-laid-out console. The printer works like a printer put the paper in the top, click Print, then pick up pages from the output tray when it's done. Using the multifunction is easy and intuitive. For the truly budget-conscious, however, its high ink costs will eventually outweigh its initial low price. Still, it seems like a bargain for $199, you're getting a device that cranks out good-looking text and graphics on plain or coated papers, all at a relatively fast clip. However, it doesn't have its own fax capabilities, working instead with your PC's modem to complete this task. Lexmark's X83 All-In-One should really be called the Most-In-One it's a color inkjet-based multifunction that combines a flatbed scanner, a printer, and a photocopier in one box.
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