Kyocera 2160 L

The Color Laser Printer Guide: Vendor & Product Profiles

Lanier LP231cn

31ppm full color

31ppm black & white

Same Machine as the Ricoh Aficio SP C411DN

Chart entry — page 92

Lanier LP332cdn

Lanier LP332cdtn

28ppm full color

32ppm black & white

Same Machines as the Ricoh Aficio CL7200 family

Chart entries — page 93

Lanier LP335cdn

Lanier LP335cdtn

35ppm full color

35ppm black & white

Same Machines as the Ricoh Aficio CL7300 family

This model has been discontinued.

Chart entries — pages 93–94

LEXMARK

Lexington, KY

800 358 5835

www.lexmark.com/us_home.html

Vendor Profile

Lexmark was formed when IBM spun off its typewriter

and mainstream printer business back in 1991. The non-

compete agreement between IBM and Lexmark expired

in 1996. IBM, at that point, built up a full line of desktop

printers in competition with Lexmark but a few years ago

announced that it would relabel Lexmark’s black-and-

white and color models. Now Lexmark also provides

printers to a number of companies: Toshiba, Unisys,

RISO,and (in some categories) Dell.

Lexmark is a power in monochrome laser printers,

where it stands (by some measures) second behind

Hewlett-Packard in terms of market share. The company

also sells an extensive line of color ink jet printers and has

considerable market presence there.In the color laser

printer market, however,Lexmark is only slowly growing

bigger.

All Lexmarkprinters benefit from a variety of external

and internal network servers and connectivity options.

They also offer a sophisticated range of optional software

for handling security,administration,and file conversion.

These tools include ones that support printing from a

number of formats (including PDF and TIFF), allow for

form generation and printing, print barcodes, secure

print, and allow for significant job management.

Lexmark also contends that it has superior color manage-

ment tools for all its color laser models.

Lexmark’s current products are quite good. In speed,

price, and features, they contend with everything else on

the market. But the opposition isn’t standing still, and

Lexmark needs to keep on developing new printers to

stay near the top of the pack.

Product Profiles

Lexmark C500n

8ppm full color

31ppm black & white

Sum-up: Bargain-basement price, but color is slow.

The new C500n is Lexmark’s entry into the under-$400

color laser printer realm. And like other color machines

in this price range, its color printing speed is slow —

8ppm. It prints in black-and-white at a speedy 31ppm,

however.

Manylower-priced color laser printers share this

machine’s printing 8ppm/31ppm speeds,including the

Brother HL-2700CN ($850), Ricoh Aficio CL1000N

($899), and TallyGenicom 8008 ($775). The main advan-

tage the C500n has over these machines is its $399 list

price, less than half of some of the competing products.

Lexmark C500N

Consumables costs at-a-glance

Price

Yield

Full-color cost per page

Black-and-whitecost per page

Black print cartridge $133.00 3,000 $ 0.030 $ 0.030

Cyan print cartridge$149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A

Magenta print cartridge $149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A

Yellowprint cartridge $149.00 5,000 $ 0.044 N/A

TOTAL PER-PAGE COSTS

$0.1628 $ 0.0298

16.30 3.00