Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out Lexmark C750 Email This Print This View My Personal Library Heavy Gear July 2002 • Vol.2 Issue 7 Page(s) 29 in print issue Add To My Personal Library Lexmark C750 As you might expect with its $2,999 price, the Lexmark C750 boasts quite a spec sheet. This printer's 350MHz processor with 64MB of RAM is impressive, but what really stands out is that you can increase the C750's memory to 512MB. The C750 has PCL 6 emulation with 84 scalable and two bit-mapped fonts, as well as PostScript emulation with 156 scalable fonts. The printer has parallel and USB ports, and a network card is optional. The only "real" resolution setting is 1,200 x 1,200 dpi, although the printer also has a 2,400dpi setting using resolution-enhancement technology. Print times in our lab tests were much slower than the manufacturer-rated 20ppm. A 10-page text file printed at 7.1ppm. A six-page text-and-graphics file and three-page PowerPoint file were even slower at 3.9ppm and 6.8ppm, respectively. Text was sharp as long as it wasn't too small (5-point or less) or too large (36-point or more). These "extreme font sizes" looked a little fuzzy and heavy on the ink. Black and gray areas of charts had significant banding, but colored areas looked good. Clip art turned out much better than the charts, with no noticeable banding or other problems. In the PowerPoint printout, I could scrape off some of the blacks, suggesting the temperature wasn't high enough for the toner to adhere properly to the paper. Although I wasn't impressed with Word or PowerPoint charts, high-resolution graphics turned out well. Colors were accurate but not quite as brilliant as I expected. With no banding or cuts, though, the high-resolution image printouts were certainly acceptable. This printer seems to struggle slightly with gray images and some black text. Overall, though, with its decent text, good color handling, and memory expansion options, the Lexmark C750 is worth considering if you need to print high-resolution images or other memory-intensive files. by Kylee Dickey C750 $2,999 Lexmark (800) 539-6275 (859) 232-3000 www.lexmark.com CPU Rating: 2.5 (out of possible 5)  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.