Lexmark T640 Monochrome Laser Printer Review

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(More customer reviews)I installed this printer a year ago at a non-profit I work for.It has a couple of gotchas, which caused us massive grief for a few months.

If you print via the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), the printer will crash periodically on seemingly random jobs.When it crashes, it doesn't automatically reboot.Reconfiguring your print server or desktops to use the LPD (or other protocols) will fix the problem.Lexmark has all but forgotten about this printer, and hasn't offered a software update since May of '07, and the frequent crashes are not addressed on their support site, but *are* mentioned all over the internet. :-)

We are a PostScript based shop (but really just print Word and Excel documents), and this printer's emulation software is adequate, but unbelievably slow.I wrote some simple PostScript test pages which fly out of our other printers, but not the T640.When warmed up, time to first page varies from 5 to 60 seconds.

The printer is *very* eager to print.The moment a print job starts downloading, the fans, rollers and drum fire up in anticipation.Then they shut off twenty seconds later because the PostScript interpreter hasn't finished rasterizing the page.It makes you get up from your chair ("It's printing!") only to fake you out. :-)

Generally, PostScript benefits from having more available memory, so I added 512MB to the thing, and it really didn't make much difference.

So yeah, the printer does what it's supposed to.Just slowly.

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Product Description:

Product Name: T640 Laser Printer
Marketing Information:
Specialized and general office printing is consolidated on one printer supporting an array of business output application needs.Product Type: Desktop Printer
Technical Information

Print Technology: Laser
Print Speed: 35 ppm Maximum Monochrome Letter
Print Speed: 33 ppm Maximum Monochrome A4
Print Resolution: 1200 x 1200 dpi Monochrome
Print Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi Monochrome
Memory

Standard Memory: 64 MB
Interfaces/Ports

Interfaces/Ports: IEEE 1284 - Parallel
Interfaces/Ports: USB 2.0 - USB
Network & Communication

Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet X2011e 10/100Base-TX RJ-45 External Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet X2012e Ethernet RJ-45 External Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet X2031e 10/100Base-TX External Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet X2030t Token Ring External Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet N4000e 10/100Base-TX RJ-45 External Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet N8000 Ethernet RJ-45 Internal Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet N8020 Gigabit Internal Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark MarkNet N8030 FibreOptic Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark N8050 IEEE 802.11g Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark N4050e IEEE 802.11g Optional
Network Connectivity: Lexmark IEEE 802.11g External Optional
Media Types & Handling

Media Type: Card Stock
Media Type: Dual Web Labels
Media Type: Envelope
Media Type: Integrated Labels
Media Type: Paper Label
Media Type: Plain Paper
Media Type: Polyester Label
Media Type: Transparencies
Media Type: Vinyl Labels
Media Size: Envelope No. 10 - 4.125" x 9.5"
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