The Lexmark E250dn is a great monochrome laser printer for a single home user or a college student. Quality of both text and graphic prints of this printer are excellent. This laser printer also has an auto duplexer which helps in printing on both sides of a sheet.
Monochrome laser printer Lexmark E250dn sits 10.2 inches tall, 14.1 inches wide, and 15.6 inches deep, it has a small footprint for a laser printer, making it a perfect fit for a small office or a dorm room. This printer weighs about 25 pounds so it is not hard to move a printer from a particular place.
Lexmark E250dn consists of 1,500-page starter toner cartridge. Replacement cartridges can print about 3,500 pages and cost $157, for a per-page cost of 4.5 cents. The per-page costs are a bit high for a monochrome laser printer but not surprising, considering the low price of the printer itself. The E250dn printers employ a two-part cartridge design.
Lexmark E250dn also helps in printing multiple pages on a single sheet. This printer also contains 366MHz processor and 32MB of RAM (expandable to 96MB). The E250dn comes with a parallel connector and a USB port for direct connection.
The E250dn speed through graphics prints is amazing. It prints 20.95 pages per minute, besting all the competition in its price range. The quality text prints were crisp, dark, and clean. The quality of graphics print is also excellent. A nice progression through the grayscale is also present.