Lexmark MX410de Monochrome All-in One Laser Printe

A great printer and scanner for heavy volume home office
Fantastic printer. I replaced a 10+ year old HP LaserJet and this one runs circles around it at something like 1/3 the cost (not inflation adjusted).It prints lightning fast and can print, copy and scan in duplex which is great for saving paper when printing longer documents. The scanner is excellent, and the unit works perfectly with my Mac via the built-in Printers and Scanners app in System Preferences, so there is no need for any other software on a Mac to use this printer.

Three Stars
Fast printer. As of yet, no paper jams. Sometimes needs rebooting due to a software bug.

Excellent low-volume/SOHO multifunction printer
After recently picking up the Lexmark MS810dn printer for our office, I have to admit that I’ve been looking at Lexmark printers first since they really seem to be the best office printers I’ve been able to find.Even though the CS310dn didn’t really live up to expectations, I decided to try again with this MX410de as a multi-purpose unit for the front of our store. That turned out to be another winner!After using it for a while, here are the things we like about it:- The print quality is excellent!- It’s reasonably fast. Nothing like the MS810dn; but, it blows the CS310dn out of the water since we don’t have to deal with the constant cool-down cycles.- The printer duplexing works well – which is very important for us since we print so many federal documents that are required to be double sided.- It has a duplexer on the scanner as well – which is also important to us.- It was easy to set it up to scan directly to a network drive. That makes it a good choice for users to scan documents using whatever settings they need and then they can grab them from the network drive. (Otherwise we would need a dedicated scanner at every desk.)- It has an excellent touch-screen, which makes it very easy to configure in general. The controls are intuitive and easy to navigate.- Scanner and copier settings are easily configurable directly from the unit (mostly because of the touch-screen controls). Settings like duplexing, scaling, etc… are all easily available.- The scan & copy quality is also very good.- I like that the output tray is accessible from the front of the printer instead of out the back like the CS310dn.- I will never buy another printer that doesn’t plug directly into the network – and the network support on all these Lexmark printers is excellent!- Of all the Lexmark printers we’ve owned, this is the quietest. The CS301dn was pretty loud in general, and the MS810dn has a slight buzz before it goes into standby – but this printer just sits there quietly.Even though this has been an excellent purchase, there are some issues that you should be aware of:- The duplex scanner feature actually passes the scanned item through twice instead of scanning both sides on a single pass – it then passes it through a third time so it will wind up in the correct orientation in the output tray. That makes it impossible to scan documents with attachments – or thicker attachments that won’t go through the duplexer multiple times. (Maybe I’m just spoiled by the Fujitsu fi-6130Z sheet-fed scanners that we also use.)- I wish Lexmark would make a single driver package that would work for all of their printers. It seems ridiculous that we have to download and install a separate driver package for every one of these printers; although, in the long run it probably isn’t a huge deal.Overall, I would highly recommend this printer if you’re working in a low-volume environment! The small paper tray, lack of flexibility in the input trays, and slower print speed (compared to the high end models) all contribute to making this a low-volume printer/scanner; but, it is excellent if you need an all-in-one printer to act as a secondary unit in your business.I suspect this would be an absolutely perfect printer in most SOHO environments!

Reliable Blurry Printer
This printer has always printed when I wanted it too, however the quality of print is not their it is very fuzzy and hard to read at times. I tried Lexmark support awhile ago but no success in making it any better, I even ordered a new toner cartridge thinking that the factory one could be bad.

This printer was easy to setup and has proven dependable and relatively cost effective with the high yield toner cartridges. The user interface is intuitive and the quality of the printing and scanning is good. The overall use is approaching the 10,000 pages per month mark, so we will see how the printer holds up and what the longer term operating costs are like.

I purchased less than a month ago based on prior reviews and it has met my expectations