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Lexmark X7170 All-In-One Printer w/ USB Cable (22 PPM, 4800x1200 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)
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- Scanning
- Faxing
Media Handling
| Manual Feed Slot | Yes |
| Maximum Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, height | 1100.0 inches |
| Maximum Sheets With All Paper Trays | 150 |
| Output Tray Capacity | 50 |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum paper size, width | 8.5 inches |
| Standard input sheet capacity | 150 |
| Duplex printing | No |
Connectivity
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| Parallel Port | No |
| Serial Port | No |
| USB 1.1 | Yes |
| USB 2.0 | Yes |
Platform Support
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Pros
Fast text print speeds
Cons
Dark but fuzzy text output
Prints attractive glossy photos, slowly
Bottom Line
Low print and scan quality overall. Prints attractive glossy photos, but very slowly. Fast at printing text.
Lexmark X7170
X7170 All-In-One Printer w/ USB Cable (22 PPM, 4800x1200 DPI, Color, PC/Mac) Review, by Paul Jasper May 3, 2005
Lexmark clearly aims its $180 X7170 at small offices, with features like a 50-sheet automatic document feeder and the ability to fax in color. The control panel consists of a backlit two-line LCD and a set of speed-dial buttons for frequently used fax numbers. Unlike MFPs designed primarily for photographers, the X7170 lacks media slots, but it does have a PictBridge port on its front panel for printing directly from a compatible digital camera.
The main paper tray can hold 150 sheets of plain paper. A narrow feeder in the output tray lets you load 35 sheets of 4-by-6-inch photo paper or a short stack of envelopes, so you can easily switch to specialty printing tasks.
The X7170 ships with a color cartridge containing dye-based cyan, magenta, and yellow inks, along with a pigment-based black cartridge that's designed for printing text. You can replace the black cartridge with a photo cartridge that holds pigment-based light magenta, light cyan, and black inks.
Using six inks with the photo cartridge, the X7170 produced excellent photos--probably the best we've ever seen from a Lexmark inkjet. Colors, including skin tones, didn't look as saturated as in the output of some of its competitors, but details were very sharp. With its pigment black ink, the X7170 printed dark text, but characters appeared fuzzy, as if they were casting shadows. Very small fonts were unreadable, and closely spaced boldface letters suffered from major bleeding. Horizontal banding, which appeared where alternating swathes of the print head didn't line up, plagued all of our plain paper prints.
The X7170 printed text at 7.8 pages per minute, faster than any other model on the chart. However, the X7170 was abysmally slow at printing photos, taking 278 seconds to produce a 4-by-6-inch glossy--89 seconds longer than the next-slowest model.
The X7170's scanning and copying speeds were slightly below average. And though copies looked good, color scans appeared fuzzy and oversaturated, earning a score of Poor.
Lexmark provides a solid software bundle anchored by the Lexmark All-In-One Center. The scanning software lets you scan directly to PDF format. Also included are the Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Sprint OCR application and Lexmark Photo Editor. You can scan directly into PDF files.
Upshot: The X7170 offers fast text print speeds, but scan and text print quality aren't up to the standards that many offices demand.
Paul Jasper
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PCWorld Lab Results
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Performance
| 5 x 7 Photo (secs) | 278.32 |
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Color Photo (secs) | 31.51 |
| Color Photo Quality | Superior |
| Color Photo, Best Quality Settings | 278.32 |
| Color Photo, Normal Settings | 31.51 |
| Copy Output Quality | Good |
| Copy Quality | Good |
| Final Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 16.32 |
| Final Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 9.07 |
| Final Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 22.67 |
| Line Art Output Quality | Good |
| One-Page Copy | 21.63 |
| One-Page Copy (secs) | 21.63 |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic | 34.96 |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) | 34.96 |
| Output Score, Color Graphics, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Default) | Fair |
| Output Score, Color Photo, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Best) | Superior |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Good |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Fair |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 14.8 |
| Preview Scan, 2-by-2-Inch Document, Maximum Resolution (formerly pf-MFPs-pv2x2maxmax-Average) | 14.83 |
| Preview Scan, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 14.78 |
| Preview Scan, Line Art, Maximum Resolution (formerly pf-MFPs-pvLAmax1-Average) | 14.69 |
| Preview Scan, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 14.81 |
| Ten-Page Word Document | 77.22 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 77.22 |
| Tested Color Graphics Speed (formerly pf-PCWColorSpeed) | 1.5 |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 1.5 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 0.2 |
| Tested Photo Speed (formerly pf-PCWPhotoSpeed) | 0.2 |
| Tested Text Speed (formerly pf-PCWBWSpeed) | 7.8 |
| Tested Text Speed (ppm) | 7.8 |
| Text Output Quality | Fair |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document | 146.98 |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) | 146.98 |
| Three-Page Word Document | 40.1 |
| Three-Page Word Document (secs) | 40.1 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, 600 dpi | 16.32 |
| Total Scan Time, 2-by-2-Inch Document, Maximum Resolution (formerly pf-MFPs-2x2maxmax-Average) | 25.9 |
| Total Scan Time, 4-by-5-Inch Document, 100 dpi | 9.07 |
| Total Scan Time, Line Art, Maximum Resolution (formerly pf-MFPs-LAmax1-Average) | 104.18 |
| Total Scan Time, One-Page Word Document, 300 dpi | 22.67 |
| Two-Page Excel Document | 64.44 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 64.44 |
Scanning
| Preview scan, 2-by-2-inch document, 600 dpi | 14.8 |
| Preview scan, 4-by-5-inch document, 100 dpi | 14.78 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 14.81 |
| Preview scan, one-page Word document, 300 dpi | 14.81 |
Text Printing
| Text output quality | Fair |
User Reviews
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Reviewed by: yowje
Strengths: The price was right?
Weaknesses: 1. No ink miser setting2. Never have been able to make the scanner work
Overall: I sold computer equipment, including Lexmark printers and helped people install them for over 20 years. So it came as quite a shock to me when I could not make this printer print. Called to India, was on the phone a long time with a nice man who tried to help me with it. Finally we came to the conclusion that the printer was faulty. Returned it and brought home another one. Same problem. My computer uses Windows ME, so there should be no compatibility issues. Finally, after re-installing the software several times (and finding that, after one time disconnecting and reconnecting the USB cable, that I had inadvertently installed it into the telephone jack next door), I got the printer to work. The scanner has never worked. As far as I can tell, you need the proprietary software included with the printer to use the scanner; you can't scan from Photoshop like I could with my old Mustek scanner. Wish I had never given it away to Goodwill.
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Reviewed by: psiteg
Strengths: Great overall printer. Make sure you replace original cartridges with high yield 34/35 when your out.
Weaknesses: Scanning a little weak, but you cant beat the overall quality and value for price
Overall: This printer is as good as the comparable HP line. My friend uses the HP and he goes through ink much faster than I do, and he ends up paying more. My high yield black cartridges get about a pack a paper per cartridge. pretty good for $25.
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Reviewed by: hounddogmissy
Strengths: ease of setup, features,quality,functions,looks
Weaknesses: none
Overall: just bought lexmark 7170 printer and was very impressed with the superior quality of the unit.very easy to setup and install, I see a very high quality product at a very fair price,GOOD WORK LEXMARK !!! I have owned several Lexmark printers in the past, but this one is top of the line for the price.I guess I am going to do a lot of printing with this machine, can't wait , Thanks again to Lexmark.A very satisfied customer, Russell SulzerP.S. Keep up the good work.
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Reviewed by: emi_chuck
Strengths: Prints okay
Weaknesses: Scanning and copying.
Overall: The copy mode appears to work at 200 dpi for color photo copies. This is totally unacceptable. In the scan mode that dpi can be set but at 600dpi the scan takes 2 minutes and the color is not at all close to the original. Kodak software was not able to bring the original colors out. Just to give an idea. Black and white text scanned to be blue and not even dark blue. Photos were just bad.At 1200 dpi my computer locked up after about 15 minutes of scanning - still incomplete.
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Reviewed by: sumunz
Strengths: Very fast printing ...Fax works ok..
Weaknesses: scanning and copying photos
Overall: Scanning is not good quality...Photos scanned are terrible. The satuation is not good. I am disappointed with it.. I would advise not buying this unless you are just going to use it for printing and fax.
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