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Because they can also be used for scanning, copying and faxing, multi-function or an all-in-one printers are understandably popular with both home and small business customers. But they are not all created equal, the Lexmark X7675 turning out to be much more appropriate than many, especially when it comes to network sharing.

No prizes for guessing that the X7675 is based on Lexmark’s popular inkjet technology, in this case located in a squat yet stylish plastic casing with a Flatbed scanner, complete with 25-sheet feeder on top. Glossy paper is fed on their backs (up to 100 sheets at a time) and printed pages ejected on the front.

Also on the front is a large angled control panel with a color display and, in addition to a number of slots, so you can browse and print directly from memory cards without using a PC. A USB port is also included here, but can only be used with PictBridge-compatible devices, not ordinary USB memory sticks.

Round on the back you’ll find the expected USB 2.0 interface for direct PC attachment, plus a pair of Jacks for a fax modem and a local handset. Alongside, but there is also a Gigabit Ethernet port for LAN attachment and a stubby aerial photographs show the presence of a built-in WiFi print server. This can be used for both ad-hoc wireless printing and to connect to an existing WiFi network, even to configure wireless security you have to connect with a cable first.

Just two cartridges are required, a black, the other color. Lift the scanner and they simply pop into place, the X7675 shipping with what Lexmark calls “high yield” cartridges to get you started. In practice, which represents about 500 printing black-only pages, while color ink cartridge will print about 350 Replacements cost around £ 28 – £ 30 (+ VAT) and there seems little point in buying the standard cartridges that are actually working more expensive to use.

According to Lexmark, a maximum print speed is 32ppm for black and 27ppm color. But to achieve this goal, we had to select draft quality, which is fine for personal use and file copies, but not the documents you want to send or share with others. For that you’ll probably use the default standard offer around 12-15ppm in our tests, but when we chose the best possible quality of each page took about a minute, with photographs just as slow to appear.

In terms of quality, you can tell it is an inkjet rather than a laser, but more than adequate for most business purposes, and if you need to produce photographs, special additional live cartridges are available. You also get duplex (two-sided) printing as standard with a programmable delay to allow the sides to dry before continuing with the other.

As a copier the X7675, we discovered, simple to use, the built-in display and clearly labeled buttons make it easy to operate without instruction. Full color copies took about 45 seconds to complete. Moreover, you can produce up to 99 copies at a time and reduce and enlarge (25 – 400 percent) along the way, like a ‘real’ copier.

Walk-up faxing is similar straightforward, but to scan documents you must use Windows software supplied. This must be installed separately on each PC: it not only lets you save scans your hard disk, but also scan to e-mail and captured convert documents into editable text using OCR. You can also send faxes remotely.

All in all, there is much to like about the X7675, which packs a lot of useful functions in a remarkably compact and affordable package. Adding as it is a robust, business-quality machine, complete with a five-year warranty.