Lexmark C534 Toner Cartridges

Lexmark C534 Printer Review

The Lexmark C534n color laser printer geared toward the small or medium office environment. While it can handle high-volume printing needs, it also has expansion options that will allow it to grow with your office needs. The unit includes a toner cartridge and a built-in ethernet port for connecting directly to the network for sharing, allowing for easy connection and setup.

The Lexmark C534 color laser printer provides a print speed that is good for the price, at 24 pages per minute black and 22 pages per minute color. Print quality is impressive, with especially sharp text. Graphics and photo printing are typical of a laser, which is to say it is passable, but not as good as a quality inkjet model. In general, toners struggle with these aspects, and their primary focus is producing clear, sharp text, which this model excels at. With a printing resolution of 1200 dpi, its text is very sharp even down to small font sizes.

As mentioned, the machine has some expansion options to accommodate increases in printing needs. While the unit includes 128 MB of ram, it can be upgraded to as much as 640 MB of ram by installing a non-proprietary SODIMM stick, which is widely available in computer stores or online. The unit includes a standard input paper tray of 250 sheets and a multipurpose tray of 100 sheets, but can be expanded by adding an optional 550 sheet tray for more capacity. There are also two other models in the line: the C534DN adds duplexing and the C534DTN adds extra paper capacity.

Lastly, the Lexmark C534n toner cartridges can be replaced with high-yield toner cartridges to increase the amount of time between replacements, and also to save on overall costs. The standard cartridges have a capacity of 4,000 pages for black and 3,000 pages for each color laser toner cartridge, while the high-yield printer toner cartridges have a capacity of 8,000 pages for black and 5,000 pages for color. Overall, the Lexmark C534n will fit small or medium office needs quite well, and can grow along with increased needs. While its graphics and photo quality leave a bit to be desired, its sharp text quality makes it a great choice for a typical office environment which needs to crank out text documents during the workday.