Lexmark Optra E210 Personal Laser Printer

Lexmark Optra E210 Personal Laser Printer
Manufacturer: Lexmark
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Your home and small office printing needs have evolved. Today, you want laser quality but without high laser costs. The Lexmark E210 monochrome laser printer is ideal for you: it delivers truly fast, professional quality output to meet your advanced printing requirements. Sturdy and reliable, it can print up to 12 ppm, while a 66 MHz processor and less than 13 seconds time to first page ensure fast job turnaround.For a very affordable price, you get all the advantages of laser. User - selectable print resolution settings of 600x600 or 300 dpi let you optimize output, while Toner Saver mode lets you economize up to 30% on toner costs. Start with easy-to-install single element cartridges. Add broad media capabilities including transparencies, envelopes, labels and card stock. Include intelligent features like Job Cancel, multi-up, Watermark, Fit-to-Page, Scale and Poster print. And design it all to fit right on your desktop. The result? The Lexmark E210 that makes printing a snap. The Lexmark E210 enables high-speed communications thanks to a built-in USB port and parallel connections. And thanks to its host-based printing system optimized for Windows and Linux operating systems, the E210 ensures perfect compatibility with environments like yours.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Lexmark Optra E310 offers fast, 12-ppm printing speed, so it saves you time. True 600 x 600 dpi laser printing gives you professional output. Parallel and USB interfaces make this printer compatible with a wide range of platforms in a variety of environments. Supported operating systems include Windows XP, 95, 98 2nd edition, Me, NT (4.00/4.00 Server), and 2000 (Professional/Server/Advanced Server) and Red Hat Linux 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0. With the easy driver and cartridge installation, you'll be up and running in no time.

Average customer rating:

Great printer--have had no problems in 6+ years!!
No paper jams, great printer
Save your money, don't get this printer.
Great Printer
Cheapest Laser I've ever seen

Lexmark Optra E210 Personal Laser Printer

Manufacturer: Lexmark
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Personal monochrome laser printer
Up to 600 x 600 dpi resolution
Up to 12 ppm print speed
Windows and Linux operating systems supported
USB and parallel ports

ASIN: B00005UCO3

Amazon.com Product Description

The Lexmark Optra E310 offers fast, 12-ppm printing speed, so it saves you time. True 600 x 600 dpi laser printing gives you professional output. Parallel and USB interfaces make this printer compatible with a wide range of platforms in a variety of environments. Supported operating systems include Windows XP, 95, 98 2nd edition, Me, NT (4.00/4.00 Server), and 2000 (Professional/Server/Advanced Server) and Red Hat Linux 6.1, 6.2, and 7.0. With the easy driver and cartridge installation, you'll be up and running in no time.

Product Description

Your home and small office printing needs have evolved. Today, you want laser quality but without high laser costs. The Lexmark E210 monochrome laser printer is ideal for you: it delivers truly fast, professional quality output to meet your advanced printing requirements. Sturdy and reliable, it can print up to 12 ppm, while a 66 MHz processor and less than 13 seconds time to first page ensure fast job turnaround.For a very affordable price, you get all the advantages of laser. User - selectable print resolution settings of 600x600 or 300 dpi let you optimize output, while Toner Saver mode lets you economize up to 30% on toner costs. Start with easy-to-install single element cartridges. Add broad media capabilities including transparencies, envelopes, labels and card stock. Include intelligent features like Job Cancel, multi-up, Watermark, Fit-to-Page, Scale and Poster print. And design it all to fit right on your desktop. The result? The Lexmark E210 that makes printing a snap. The Lexmark E210 enables high-speed communications thanks to a built-in USB port and parallel connections. And thanks to its host-based printing system optimized for Windows and Linux operating systems, the E210 ensures perfect compatibility with environments like yours.

Customer Reviews:

Great printer--have had no problems in 6+ years!!.......2007-02-03

I've had my E210 for at least 6 years now and have not had one problem with it. I print mostly text, though some graphics at times, and it has performed remarkably well. I have had no paper jams, ever, and I am just now replacing the toner cartridge for the 2nd time.

Unlike another review here, I've gotten way more than 500 pages with this cartridge. I don't know what their issue was, but I've been using this toner cartridge for over 4 years now (at least 1,500 pages) and it is starting to fade. But I also found cheaper cartridges online for around $62.

For the price (if you can find one anymore), this little printer is fast, cheap to own and very reliable.

No paper jams, great printer.......2005-03-26

I owned this printer for over 2 years now and I had NO paper jams for at least a year. Very reliable, nice print quality, sharp text and images. When the printer power's supply went bed in the first year Lexmark sent me promptly a replacement printer which I still have it now. Great customer service.

On the toner/ink side. Original toner is quite expensive (around $70/cartridge), better go online and buy it on ebay. I found 2 cartridge refills for about $6, refilled the cartridge at home and worked great with the same quality printing. I love this printer.

Save your money, don't get this printer........2004-02-10

Don't get this printer. Yes, the printer is inexpensive. But the toner cartridges are expensive and you'll pay for it in the long run. The Lexmark website says the toner cartridge is good for 2000 sheets at 5% page coverage (at $100/cartridge, that's 5 cents/sheet). Don't believe it.

My wife gets maybe five hundred pages printed (just double-spaced typing) before parts of the page starts fading (so we're paying 20 cents/sheet). As per the Lexmark website, we've updated the driver, we've updated the firmware, we've printed cleaning pages, nothing works. Sure, we shake the toner cartridge too, but who wants to be doing that every 5 pages, especially when they advertise 2000 pages and ours starts fading at 500.

I have an old HP 4L. It's probably getting close to 10 years old now. I think I've bought just one cartridge since the original, and I've printed a lot. My wife also had an HP that the Lexmark replaced. She wishes she had her old HP back. Now there is an endorsement. I will not get a Lexmark printer ever again.

Great Printer.......2003-07-29

This was my first laser printer and I love it. The set-up was easy and fast, the print quality is good, and the speed is excellent. I was concerned about only printing in B&W, so I left my ink-jet connected as well. I was surprised with how few documents I printed that needed color. I hardly ever use my ink-jet now, as I can't stand to wait on it. The cartridges are on the expensive side, but it was over a year with moderate printing until I had to replace it. A tip: when the print quality starts getting light, take out the cartridge, turn it back and forth a few times and re-insert. You may have to do this a few times, but you can get a month or more of good pages out of it before replacing.

Cheapest Laser I've ever seen.......2003-03-19

This is a decent laser printer that handles text well and has only jammed once despite going through several thousand pages and numerous sheets of labels.

Pros
-Price -- I got mine for $75 from office depot after a coupon and rebate
-text quality

Cons
-Graphics quality: not the greatest, don't buy it if you have to print anything with graphics
-Ink cost: pretty high cost per page

If you can get this for under 100, go for it, otherwise, get another printer with less expensive ink

Also, if you do indeed buy this printer, install the driver for the Samsung 1200 series printers instead of the e210 -- since the printers are really the same but with different emblems on the outside, you can use the better Samsung driver which has an ink saver mode which definitely works driving down the cost per page by ~20-30% while keeping the text dark enough to read

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