The Lexmark E350 series fits the bill for a home user or a college student who needs to crank out lots of text prints. This mono laser printer comes with built-in duplexers who help in automatic double sided print. The cheap Lexmark E350d is very compact for a mono laser printer, measuring just 14 inches wide by 15.6 inches deep by 10.2 inches tall. The printer is not that heavy and measures about 25 pounds, so it’s not too difficult to move. The front-mounted control panel of mono laser E350d is simple, with just a two-line text LCD, a Cancel button, and five buttons to navigate the onscreen Menu. The Menu is basic, owing to the no-frills function of the printer, with easy and intuitive navigation.
This mono laser printer includes a toner cartridge. The E350d ships with a 3,000-page cartridge. E350d offer cheap cartridge at $157 for 3,500-pages and a $267 for 9,000-pages. Both cartridges also are available at a great discount under Lexmark’s return cartridge program. Under this program, the 3,500-page unit costs $132 and the 9,000-page unit costs $242. E350d contain a 366MHz processor and 32MB of onboard memory (expandable to 160MB).
The Lexmark E350d is a little speed demon of a laser printer. It prints out a text document at a rate of 24.13 pages per minute and a page of mixed text and graphics at an impressive 25.47 pages per minute. The Lexmark E350d displayed excellent text quality, with clear, sharp characters unmarred by jaggedness.