

As well as the printer driver, Lexmark includes its All-in-One Center, complete with OCR software and a basic photo editor. Plug in the power lead, plug in the USB cable and install the software from the CD. Setting up the X2350 could hardly be simpler.

At the back is one of Lexmark’s clever block power supplies, clipped into a recess that leaves it nearly flush to the back panel. A strut clicks out to support the top section while you’re fitting it.Īt the front right is a control panel of three buttons, for power, scan and copy (the machine can copy even when not connected to a PC). The scanner cover is a simple, hinged lid and the whole of the top section of the machine lifts to give access to the single print cartridge. An extending grey tray keeps them off the desktop. This is where printed pages come out, once they’ve been fed through from a near-vertical hopper at the rear. It looks like the designers have started with a white, rectangular block, curved the edges off and cut a block out of the front.

There’s a great simplicity to the style of the X2350. We found the X2350 on-line for a tad under £40, which looks like a bargain. Its latest wheeze, to sell three-colour printers as the epitome of simplicity, has now extended to its cheapest all-in-one device to date. Its entry-level machines are found in most high-street shops as well as selling many thousands on-line. Lexmark’s desire to produce the lowest price printers on the market has done very well for it.
