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The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles
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L
anier LP231cn
31ppm full color
31ppm black & white
Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio SP C411DN
Chart entry — page 92
Lanier LP332cdn
Lanier LP332cdtn
28ppm full color
32ppm black & white
Same Machines as the Ricoh Aficio CL7200 family
Chart entries — page 93
Lanier LP335cdn
Lanier LP335cdtn
35ppm full color
35ppm black & white
Same Machines as the Ricoh Aficio CL7300 family
This model has been discontinued.
Chart entries — pages 93–94
LEXMARK
Le
xington, KY
800 358 5835
www
.lexmark.com/us_home
.html
Vendor Profile
Lexmark was formed when IBM spun off its typewriter
and mainstream printer business back in 1991. The non-
compete agreement between IBM and Lexmark expired
in 1996. IBM, at that point, built up a full line of desktop
printers in competition with Lexmark but a few years ago
announced tha
t it w
ould r
elabel Lexmark’s black-and-
w
hite and color models
. Now Lexmark also provides
printers to a number of companies: Toshiba, Unisys,
RISO, and (in some categories) Dell.
Lexmark is a power in monochrome laser printers,
where it stands (by some measures) second behind
He
wlett-P
ackard in terms of market share. The company
also sells an extensive line of color ink jet printers and has
consider
a
b
le mar
k
et pr
esence ther
e
.
In the color laser
printer market, however, Lexmark is only slowly growing
bigger.
All Le
xmar
k printers benefit from a variety of external
and internal network servers and connectivity options.
They also offer a sophisticated range of optional software
for handling security
,
administr
a
tion,
and file conversion.
T
hese tools include ones that support printing from a
number of formats (including PDF and TIFF), allow for
form generation and printing, print barcodes, secure
print, and allow for significant job management.
Lexmark also contends that it has superior color manage-
ment tools for all its color laser models.
Lexmark’s current products are quite good. In speed,
price, and features, they contend with everything else on
the market. But the opposition isn’t standing still, and
Lexmark needs to keep on developing new printers to
stay near the top of the pack.
Product Profiles
Lexmark C500n
8ppm full color
31ppm black & white
Sum-up:
Bargain-basement price, but color is slow.
The new C500n is Lexmark’s entry into the under-$400
color laser printer realm. And like other color machines
in this price r
ange, its color printing speed is slow —
8ppm.
It prints in black-and-w
hite a
t a speedy 31ppm,
however.
Many lower-priced color laser printers share this
machine’s printing 8ppm/31ppm speeds
, including the
Brother HL-2700CN ($850), Ricoh Aficio CL1000N
($899), and TallyGenicom 8008 ($775). The main advan-
ta
ge the C500n has over these machines is its $399 list
price, less than half of some of the competing products.
Lexmark C500N
Consumables costs at-a-glance
Price
Yield
Full-color cost per page
Black-and-white cost per page
Black print cartridge $133.00 3,000 $ 0.030 $ 0.030
Cy
an print car
tridg
e
$149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A
Magenta print cartridge $149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A
Y
ello
w print cartridge
$149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A
TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS
$ 0.1628 $ 0.0298
16.30 3.00