Aimed at small workgroups, the Lexmark Optra S 1250 is a user-friendly monochrome laser printer that promises high quality documents with crisper fonts and sharper images. Unlike some similar devices from the competition, the Optra S1250 printer from Lexmark offers more versatile media handling and expandable options for the memory, but it could be better if some features were standard instead of optional.
Design
The Lexmark Optra S 1250 mono laser printer weighs approximately 18.6Kg. The Lexmark S 1250 Optra laser printer is fairly compact, too, as it stands 13.2 inches tall and spans 15.9 inches wide. It mainly relies on wired parallel connectivity and runs on 4MB of memory with an Intel 33MHz processor. The Optra S 1250 monochrome laser printer uses curved and straight media paths for versatile media handling.
Advantages
The print speed is fairly fast in best mode, at up to 12ppm. The Lexmark Optra S 1250 black and white printer is easy to install because of the plug-and-play interface. The maximum resolution is 1200x1200dpi, which ensures sharper text and graphics. The Optra S 1250 supports a range of fonts, printer languages, and PostScript systems. The memory of the Lexmark Optra S 1250 workgroup printer is expandable to 68MB. Users can print on labels, greeting cards, envelopes, and transparencies with the Lexmark S 1250 printer. A choice of black Lexmark Optra S 1250 toners are on sale including return program, recycled and dedicated label cartridges depending on the users printing requirements and price sensitivity.
Disadvantages
Though aimed at workgroups, there are no built-in networking features and there are no options to expand the paper capacity of the Lexmark Optra S 1250. Duplexing is only optional. High volume jobs may take more time to complete because the print speed is only up to eight ppm in normal mode. Creative environments may find the lack of colour printing a drawback of the Optra S 1250.
