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Comments on: Lexmark C736dn workgroup colour laser printer

Linux drivers! 

Posted Wednesday 7th October 2009 08:59 GMT

Woo! Welcome Lexmark, to the 21st century.

@ The BigYin 

Posted Wednesday 7th October 2009 09:35 GMT

I think they used up all their Luddism on the Mac OS 9 drivers: that's an OS that's just shy of ten years old, which must be in Ballmer's "rounding error" zone for market share

Lexmark are crap 

Posted Wednesday 7th October 2009 09:45 GMT

FAIL

Lexmark are crap IMHO. I'd never buy another one after my C532 managed only 500 sheets from a new (high capacity) cartridge. Lexmark didn't even bother to reply to my complaint.

Electricity Consumption 

Posted Wednesday 7th October 2009 12:27 GMT

Boffin

This printer is is Energy Star compliant which is good!

Lexmark gives an Energy Star Typical Electricity Consumption (TEC) of 4.69kWh (units) per week. At a typical UK price of 12p per unit this gives an electricity cost of about £29 per year.

As I understand it, for a printer of this speed (35ppm), the TEC is based on printing over 18,000 monochrome pages per month. This is on the high side because Lexmark specifies a recommended page volume of 2500 to 10000 per month. Even if colour printing uses more electricity, consumption should in practice remain below £29. Many many would consider to be negligible when compared with the capital, paper and consumables costs.

I am unable to give cost for plugging it into the mains, because Lexmark do not specify standby power consumption.