Lexmark X5470 All-in-One
The X4570 is a four-in-one, not a three-in-one.
It’s usually been another budget booster to get an automatic document feeder (ADF), so copying or faxing multi-page documents doesn’t oblige you to lift the scanner lid and place and remove pages one at a time.
The Lexmark has one — a small 10-sheet feeder, true, but that should be enough to handle many or most of a small office’s documents.
The all-in-one also lets you plug in, fetch and print images from a digital camera or flash-memory card even without a PC, while swapping its black ink cartridge for an optional second tricolor cartridge for six-color borderless photo printing.
While the box describes the X5470 as an All-in-One With Fax and Photo Features, you won’t find a photo-printer-style color LCD for previewing or editing images; instead, a two-line text LCD and front-panel buttons let you navigate through menus and options for copy, scan and fax functions.
There are, however, two flash card slots (for CompactFlash, SecureDigital, MultiMedia Card, xD and Memory Stick formats) plus a front-mounted USB port for connecting a flash drive or PictBridge-compatible camera.
So what do you get when you get printing, scanning, copying, faxing, an ADF, and camera/card image import for under $100?
A family-room or at-home hub that’s priced low enough to be an impulse buy, with operating costs that are more costly but perhaps not too painful for most people’s light-duty needs … and print quality that takes us up to but not over the fence between an occasional home office and a true, one- or two-entrepreneur business office.
The Lexmark X5470 lists for $100, with some retailers selling it for $80.
Photo by Lexmark.
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