Amazon.com Review
Lexmark's X125 is a compact, self-contained multifunction device for your printing, scanning, and faxing needs, and most of your copying needs as well.

The scanner uses a feed-through device instead of a flat bed, so pages pass through one by one. You can scan them into your PC or make copies in black and white or color without a PC. The X125 looks much like an enlarged fax machine, and indeed provides full fax facilities, including speed dial and up to 70 number memories.

Paper feeds from a near-vertical tray at the rear to a long pullout tray at the front. Above this is a second, clip-on tray which catches pages that have been scanned. The machine uses old-style, high-capacity cartridges which are easy to fit and clip into place.

A two-line LCD display eases setup, by directing you, for example, to align the machine's print heads before installing the driving software. The software includes photo editing and OCR as well as facilities for faxing. It installs easily, but the driver isn't as user-friendly as those supplied with the more consumer-oriented printers, lower in Lexmark's price range.

In our tests, printed output was generally good, with sharp black text and finely detailed color prints. Resolution is high at 2,400 dpi, but we could still see fine dots in areas of variable shading. The print times, particularly for text, were low, with a five-page text document printing in just over a minute. Photo printing, at the best quality, took nearly 3 minutes.

Colour copies weren't that effective, losing definition and bleaching some colours, particularly magenta tones. While they would be OK for quick copies intended for personal use, they would probably not be appropriate for giving to customers.

As a multifunction device, the X125 is functional and well-designed. It has some restrictions, most noticeably an inability to scan from books or magazines, but still provides printing, scanning, copying, and faxing in one compact device at a good price. --Simon Williams

From the Manufacturer
The Lexmark X125 all-in-one office center is designed for small-office and home-office settings where space is at a premium. The X125 combines color print, standalone fax, scan, and copy capabilities, offering exceptional value and a compact design for convenience unmatched by separate peripherals. The X125 all-in-one office center features Lexmark's award-winning core inkjet technology. With 2,400 x 1,200 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution in black and color (on all paper types) and a 7-picoliter color-drop size, text looks sharp and photo-quality images appear vivid and textured, lending professional appeal to business documents and presentations.

Lexmark's Accu-Feed paper handling system virtually eliminates paper jams and misfeeds, allowing office professionals to print on a wide variety of media including transparencies, labels, multiple envelope sizes, and postcards. The X125 boasts mono print speeds of up to 16 pages per minute (ppm)--the fastest in the industry--and up to eight ppm in color. The Windows-compatible X125 offers Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectivity.

Boasting stand-alone black and color fax capabilities, the X125's sheet-fed design and straightforward display will speed and simplify the sending of multiple-page documents. With speeds of up to 33.6 Kbps and a fax memory that can store up to 80 pages, the X125 is well suited for efficiently sending and receiving lengthy documents. The sheet-fed scanner offers up to 600 x 1,200 dpi optical resolution (up to 9600 dpi enhanced resolution) and 36-bit color scan depth.

The X125 also operates as a standalone color copier capable of generating up to 12 copies per minute (cpm) in black and up to 5 cpm in color. The LCD lets you easily copy up to 99 black or color copies from one original, and to resize photos and documents from 25 to 200 percent.