Lexmark Interpret S405 Touch Screen Controls Printer
September 16, 2009 | Computer, Gadgets, Peripheral, Printer | Comments OffIt’s that time of year when the printer makers introduce new models and all major players ramping up their marketing machine. Lexmark has more than most of us say, with a new ink system and new touch screen controls on some of its top models. The S405 to interpret the new inks, but not the screen and is designed as a medium-level all-in-one for home and small businesses.
Dressed in dark gray frosted and lightweight, the S405 is still very bright highlights, such that the top of its horizontal fully automatic document feeder (ADF). The paper is picked up and put the ADF in much the same way as blank cards are picked from a horizontal paper tray.Blank sheets on this machine still feed from a hopper vertically near the back, even if it was the innovation of a small slide, down his right side, which adjusts the paper guides of A4 photo paper. The output tray pulls ahead with a steeply inclined end, that switches up to catch the exit pages.
The control panel with his band acrylic slightly incongruous in the upper part, is well presented, with a keypad to use the fax and a simple set of four navigation buttons which, combined with its backlit 2-line 16 character LCD display, gives good control of machine functions. Four silver buttons above the screen, select copy, scan, fax and photo print modes.There’s just taking a memory card that takes SD, Memory Stick and xD formats, but there is also a USB jack, which is just as happy with a USB memory drive as it is with a PictBridge camera. There is another USB port and an Ethernet port to connect the printer to your PC, but Wi-Fi is built to provide the wireless option increasingly popular too.
The ink system, called Vizix is brand new and Lexmark has made changes in individual ink cartridges and separate printheads semi-permanent, are more integrated into the cartridges. In this regard, it is very similar to recent Canon and HP designs, although Lexmark cartridges are slightly more fiddly fit into the door header.There’s the usual wide range of software support, including for Abbyy FineReader Optical Character Recognition. Now there is better integration with Word, too. [via trustedreviews]
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