Lexmark T420d User manual

Reviewer’s Guide

Lexmark T420d

Duplexing Monochrome Laser Printer

Reviewer’s Guide: Lexmark T420d

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1-800-LEXMARK

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A Note to Reviewers from Lexmark

This brief guide provides information to help you publish a review of

Lexmark’s T420d monochrome laser printer. We hope you’ll find it

useful. We’d like your feedback and look forward to your published

review.

For your convenience, this guide is divided into three parts:

•Part I: Information for your readers

•Part II: Testing the printer

•Part III: Additional resources

Photos: High-resolution product photographs are available at

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Table of Contents

Part I: About the T420d.........................................................1

Key Editorial Statement.....................................................1

What’s the Big Deal about Duplex Printing?......................1

Who Is the T420d for?.......................................................1

Top Features: Bullet Point Chart .......................................2

Overview of the T420d and T420dn ..................................2

Beating the Competition: HP, Xerox Can’t Keep Up .........3

Positioning the Printers in Lexmark’s Product Line ...........4

Reader Info Box ................................................................5

The Bottom Line................................................................5

Part II: Conducting Your Review...........................................6

Setting-Up the Printer........................................................6

What Should You Test? .....................................................7

Printer Speed Tests.........................................................10

Documentation ................................................................11

Part III: Additional Resources .............................................12

Returning the Printer to Lexmark ....................................14

Product Specifications .....................................................15

Press Release.................................................................17

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Part I: About the T420d

This section contains materials that you may find of interest when researching

your review story.

Key Editorial Statement

Fast. Small. Versatile. Affordable. Breakthrough. These words describe the

Lexmark T420d laser printer. Rated at 22 pages per minute (ppm), the T420

models offer standard duplex printing, time to first page (TTFP) output in 10

seconds, and a 50,000 paper per month duty cycle in a small desktop package—

all for just $6491.

Lexmark T420d: A World’s First

The Lexmark T420d is the world’s first sub-$650 laser

printer that includes automatic both-sides-of-the-paper

duplex printing as a standard, no-extra-cost feature.

Source: Lexmark

What’s the Big Deal about Duplex Printing?

How about cutting your paper cost by half? That’s what printing on both sides

does. Duplex printing is a trees best friend, utilizing the front and back of each

page for printing output.

Most users don’t think much about duplex printing. That’s because this capability

has never been widely available—and certainly never available at such a low

price.

Who Is the T420d for?

The T420d printer is designed to meet the needs of departmental and small-

business users who demand the crisp output that only a laser printer can provide,

but who want it in an easy-to-use, high-quality printer. In addition, with the ability

to print on both sides, the T420d is a great way to cut costs, a fact of life that

every company is facing, regardless of size.

1Estimated U.S. street price; actual prices may vary.

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Top Features: Bullet Point Chart

Many reviews include a chart identifying a product’s top features. Here are the

top cool things you may want to include about the Lexmark T420d and T420dn

printers.

Lexmark T420d, T420dn Features

•Automatic both-sides duplex printing at no extra cost

•Smaller, faster, and more feature rich than hp LaserJet 2200

•22 ppm output; 10 seconds to first page

•Overlay support eliminates need for pre-printed forms

•USB and parallel ports; T420dn adds Ethernet connection

•Up to 50,000 page-per-month duty cycle

•Works with Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Unix

Source: Lexmark

Overview of the T420d and T420dn

As you’ve seen, the T420 is actually a family of two printers. The base T420d

model is complemented by its twin, the Ethernet-ready T420dn. Both models

offer duplex-printing capability. This chart differentiates the two models.

T420 Model Highlights

Model Est. street

Price Ports Std.

RAM

Max.

RAM CPU

T420d $649

USB,

parallel

16MB 272MB 200MHz

T420dn $1,039

USB,

parallel,

Ethernet

32MB 288MB 200MHz

Source: Lexmark

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Beating the Competition: HP, Xerox Can’t Keep Up

Lexmark’s T420d is faster, smaller and offers more standard features than

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s identically priced hp LaserJet 2200. The T420d also beats

Xerox, Kyocera, and Brother. Here are the facts to back up Lexmark’s position:

Lexmark vs. HP

T420d vs. LaserJet 2200

T420d LJ 2200

Price2$649 $649

Duplex printing

Standard $100 Option

Speed 22 pgs. / min. 19 pgs. / min.

Size (WxHxD) 16" x 10.2” x 16.7" 16” x 10” x 17.1”

Footprint 267 sq. in. 274 sq. in.

Cost per page $0.0193 $0.0198

Duty cycle 50,000 pgs. / mo. 40,000 pgs. / mo.

Time to first page

10 seconds <15 seconds

Std. memory 16 MB 8 MB

Processor 200MHz 133MHz

Resolution 1200 quality 1200 x 1200

Source: Lexmark for T420d; hp Web site for LaserJet 22203.

Speed comparison. The network models of several comparably priced printers

were given the same files to print. When comparing the total print times of all files

used in the test, the results were as follows:

The Lexmark T420dn performed

•232 percent faster than the Hp LaserJet 2200dn

•145 percent faster than the Brother HL-1870N

•118 percent faster than the Xerox Phaser 3400N

•96 percent faster than the Kyocera Mita FS-1900N

2U.S. street prices are estimates; actual prices may vary.

3http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/un/WF05/18972-236251-236263-14638-28861.html

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Speed test comparisons were performed by QualityLogic Inc., an independent,

third-party testing firm retained by Lexmark to perform an industry-standard suite

of printer performance tests.

Positioning the Printers in Lexmark’s Product Line

The letter/legal-size T420 printers target small to medium businesses, especially those

users need of a small footprint. The T420d fits several vertical industries’ needs where

desk or store space is at a premium, such as retail, healthcare and financial services

companies. The following bullets and chart identifies Lexmark’s entire

monochrome laser product line as of February 2002 and let’s you see where the

T420d and T420dn fit.

•The affordable E320 targets home, home-office, and small-business users

with its USB and parallel connectivity while the E322 adds built-in Ethernet

•The look-alike T520, T522, T620, and T622 (the “T” series) are perfect

departmental printers; the four models offer a range of output speed and

options such as stapling, bin sorting, and the ability to connect Lexmark’s

flatbed copier/scanner/fax multifunction unit

•The “W” series offers large-format printing and high monthly duty cycles

Lexmark Monochrome Laser Printers

Model Web

Price

Max.

Media

Speed

(ppm)

Maximum

Resolution

E320 $299 8.5” x 11” 16 600 x 600

E322 $419 8.5” x 11” 16 600 x 600

E322n $619 8.5” x 11” 16 600 x 600

T420d $649*8.5” x 11” 22 600 x 600†

T420dn $1,099*8.5” x 11” 22 600 x 600†

T520 $699 8.5” x 11” 20 1200 x 1200

T522 $899 8.5” x 11” 25 1200 x 1200

W812 $1,499 11” x 17” 26 600 x 600†

T620 $1,159 8.5” x 11” 30 1200 x 1200

T622 $1,489 8.5” x 11” 40 1200 x 1200

W820 $2,099 11” x 17” 45 1200 x 1200

Source: Lexmark *Street price

†1200 IQ print quality

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Reader Info Box

The information in this table may be useful as you compile information for your

review’s reader information box.

Reader Info Box

Lexmark T420d, T420dn

In brief Lexmark’s T420d is the world’s first

laser printer with duplex printing as a

standard feature for less than $650.

With its ultra-compact size, duty

cycle of 50,000 pages per month

and speed of 22 ppm, the T420d is

the only printer that many small

businesses or corporate

departments will ever need.

Price4T420d, $649

T420dn (network-ready), $1,099

Weight 30.3 lbs.

Dimensions 16" x 16.7" x 10.2" (W x D x H)

Speed Up to 22 ppm or up to 12 page sides

per minute when duplexing; TTFP in

less than 10 seconds

Warranty One year limited LexExpress

Vendor Lexmark International Inc.,

Lexington, Ky.

Web site www.lexmark.com

The Bottom Line

If the question is “why pay more and get less?” then the answer is the Lexmark

T420d and T420dn duplexing monochrome laser printers. For an estimated

street price of $649, the T420d is smaller, faster, and has a five percent lower

cost per page than the identically priced Hp LaserJet 2200. However, the T420d

rates at 50,000 pages per month, fully 25 percent more than the 40,000 page

duty cycle of the hp LJ 2200. And, of course, the T420d offers both-sides

automatic duplex printing for the base $649 price. You would have to pay an

extra $100 to get duplexing in the hp LaserJet 2200.

4U.S. street prices are estimates; actual prices may vary.

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