Lexmark C500n Laser Printer

I take it for the 30+ PPM in B/W. I need color but 10% of my work and I am overbored buying expensive inkcartridge (specially CMY in a single pack as HP did it!!)

I get color quality I expect, not as great as photo quality but as good as HP or Samsung CLP300 (see below).

Great for all graphics and color text. Didn't fail anytime. I am very happy with it.

FYI Contenders were;
- Samsung CLP300: Trial on site only (staples).
Noisier, slower more expensive per copy.
See other epinion review of it, I agree with it

- Hp 2600:
Seen it as a colleague daily printer.
Slower (a lot!!!) on B/W, a very important part of average printing!! More expensive per copy. Too many "small pieces", looks build for predetermined life duration.
Strange look disgraceful (a personal opinion)

Finally C500 gave best result than my colleague HP 2600 (the office next to me) I share printer over network for B/W!!


A small departmental printer, BUT I don't recommend putting a color printer as a departemental printer for cost of color toner reasons.

A "departmental" use now become family with he+she+kids have own PC. or Mac. (install on Mac simpler as always

I recommend trying to connect it using Ethernet rather than USB. Others can share it without loading your PC or requring it to stay always on!
Also I get a Mac and a PC. Both work fine trough Ethernet probably (I am quit sure about that) than USB config where Mac need to use my PC sharing this printer.



I setup using Lexmark CD, didn't run well trough my Onboard Nvidia Firewall. Unable to fiond which inbound port is missing for setup. I open all port inbound for duration of setup.
You can try alos the classical IPP access http::/196.168.xx.yy where xx and yy is the adress assigned by your dhcp server.
You will get a fancy web UI from the printer web server, that show a lot of technical options.
Classical for IPP but I didn't see any description of it in lexmark docs.
Once port open, setup is the smoothest I ever seen for a printer.