New Lexmark X9575 WiFi Printer reviewed May 14, 2008 14:06 by John Sollars

Unusually for a new printer the Lexmark X9575 comes with high capacity ink cartridges - none of your 'starter' cartridges here!.  The machine includes Print, Scan, Copy and Fax functions is WiFi Enabled and comes with Duplex printing as standard.

Styled with Lexmark's usual Black, White and Silver livery the X9575 is conventionally laid out with a 50 sheet ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) mounted on top of an A4 Flatbed Scanner. 

The Control panel includes a 60mm colour LCD Screen and a numeric keypad for dialling fax numbers.

There is no way you could describe this as a fast printer, Lexmark quote both Normal and draft printing speeds, but our own five page test resulted in about 6PPM in black text and 2.3PPM in mixed text and graphics.  The Duplex printing speed is however quicker than most inkjet all-in-ones.  Our test document (which is 20 pages) completed in just over 4 minutes which is twice as fast as the Canon Pixma MP970.

We were disappointed with the quality of the output print on plain paper.  Despite the black being pigmented the black text is noticeably fuzzy with none of the edges of characters sharp or well defined.  Colours were cleaner and text printed over coloured background is well registered and easy to read.  Photo prints tend to be over-bright and may require some colour compensation to produce acceptable results.

Copies taken from the Scanner come through well, though colours are again paler than from originals.  Scans are well defined, thanks to an optical resolution of 1,200 x 4,800ppi.

The high yield 43 and 44 cartridges are supplied as standard and are available from Stinkyink