Lexmark E321
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CNET Editors' Review
The good: Low price; very fast; small and well designed.
The bad: Unexceptional graphics output; noisy; not cheap to run; toner cartridges not compatible with earlier versions'.
The bottom line: It's speedy, but the Lexmark E321 is noisy and prints only so-so graphics.
If it's quick, the E321 is also dirty. We rank its text and graphics quality as merely fair. On typical text pages with 12-point fonts, the quality is acceptable. But with serif fonts, such as Times New Roman, the small point sizes were not as legible as on printouts from the Xerox Phaser 4400N. Graphics tended to suffer slight banding with light or dark streaks, and midtone shadows tended to blur together. If you print only line art and regular text sizes, none of these shortcomings should bother you. But try the small print or to incorporate shades of gray into your documents, and the image-quality flaws become more evident.
Online, the Lexmark site features a searchable knowledge base, but information about the E321 is pretty thin. The printer FAQs and knowledge base entries at press time numbered fewer than 10 items, and most of these are recycled entries from the E320. Hide Review User ReviewsSee all user reviewsMost recent user reviewsShowing 3 of 4 reviews stars "very disappointed" By j_nyhanPros: output ok, when working Cons: paper handling the worst I have *ever* experienced Summary: buy something else stars "Fast printer Lousy paper feed mechanism." ByPros: We bought the DELL branded version of this printer (P1500) a couple of months ago and it has worked ok except for one thing: The paper feed is crap! More on that under cons. It is very easy to set up and load the software. Nothing out of the ordinary ther Cons: The paper feed is crummy. You must use pristine paper with this printer or it will begin feeding 10 sheets at a time after about the 3rd sheet. Which means if you try to manually duplex, print on used paper, bursted paper or anything that is not new out o Where to BuyPricing not available  Where to BuyPricing not available 
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