Lexmark X2580

This is a fantastic printer for a low budget person, it does many things and does them to a great standard of quality too.
Lexmark are a company that have been designing and making printers for a while now, so firstly you know that they are great quality.

The best way to describe its shape is to describe it as three separate blocks glues together to give an amazing, almost sculpture like looking all in one printer.
The first section at the top, is home to the scanner, the bottom is home to the paper out section and the block onto the side of the printer is home to all the buttons that are on top of the printer to make them nice and easy to get to. They isn’t a screen on this however, which I think would be very useful, but still for a printer for under £40 what more can you really want.

Having an all in one, doesn’t only work out cheaper, but it also means you have so much more space on your desktop, as you don’t need space for a printer and a scanner, now you’ll just need space for this all in one printer.
It also frees up a few extra USB ports and frees up power sockets, so altogether saving energy and money too.

The scanner is so easy to use too, you have a few different options to have you can scan documents and these can be selected at the top of the printers button panel. You can print to image, print to file and even print to email. There is also the option of being able to print without the use of a computer too. This is great as it means you can take anything, and scan it, in either colour or black and white and this just saves so much time in powering up your computer and also saves time in having to firstly scan something to your computer before you can print the document from there, so altogether this is a fantastic feature to have.

Its print speed claims to be around 22 pages per minute however when I put this to the test I was lucky to get 20 pages of black text out of it. This isn’t anything special but it’s a good print speed considering the printers only £40. Also the print quality is great too, the black text seems to stand out amongst the page and look very clear and really sharp.
Images printed on here are pretty fine too, and the balance of colours and its sensitivity seems to come off very well.

Altogether this is a fantastic printer for all those of you who are on a bit of a tight budget, its only £40 for a great looking all In one printer which can print at quite good speeds but with fantastic quality and it even has a built in scanner too. I advise this to anyone who wants a good printer at a low budget.