Lexmark Optra E310 – The Recommended Home Office Printer

by garrett on June 9, 2009

The Lexmark Optra e310 printer is recommended for a small business or home office. The printer prints clean crisp text with great quality greyscale images. The printer has a true resolution of 600×600 dpi, weights 16.5 pounds and is 13.4 inches wide 14.4 inches deep and 8.8 inches high, so should fit well in a small office and not take up too much space. The best toner for this printer is Lexmark Optra E310 Toner.

The printer has high speed and quality printing. Laser printers dry quickly so therefore does not smudge, so you have the confidence that you can print documents from your desk and not have to waste working time waiting by the printer so that pages do not smudge.

Installation of the Optra e310 takes approximately ten minutes and can be installed via USB or parallel port, these cables are not included. The Optra e310 comes with an included toner, that is also easy and mess free to install. Instruction manual included along with toner is well written, and again easy to follow.

The printer is relatively quiet and prints pages at up to 8 pages per minute. Printing can be completed without interruping meetings that may be in progress due to the quiet nature of the printer. Print test pages show that the black print quality is consistent, with pages coming out clean, precise and the black edges clean and intact when checked closely with a magnifying glass. The printer can print up to sixteen pages on one sheet of paper.

Many different types of paper stock can be used on the Optra e310, gloss paper, envelopes, transparencies, labels and cardstock. These can be fed through the 150 sheet automatic feeder or the single sheet feeder.

The Lexmark Optra e310 comes loaded with a variety of different scripts and fonts with more available on the included CD Rom. The printer can change from PCL to post script whilst printing. There are up to 75 PCL and post scripts and 2 bit map fonts.

The Lexmark Optra e310 toner is a toner/optical photoconductor cartridge with the ability to print up to 5000 per month. The printer comes with a toner saver setting, but this may reduce your print quality but can make the toner last up to 50% longer.

Lexmark provides printing solutions for business to be more cost and environmentally effective by using printing techniques that save toner, paper and time. Lexmark are continually evaluating their practices of sustainability without compromising future generations. Lexmark provide high quality printing services for customers in a safe manner and by using cost effective, energy conservative and water wise services. Lexmark have joined with Planet Ark in the ‘Cartridges for Planet Ark’ foundation. Lexmark printer owners have many options available to them to recycle their cartridges. If you register through the Lexmark website you will receive a starter kit which includes a collection box, 16 liners, ties and instructions.

The Lexmark Optra e310 and Lexmark Optra toner is well suited for any small business or home office with its consistent speed and quality to keep your business running smoothly.

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