Lexmark Color Jetprinter Z53 User manual

Specifications
460mm
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302mm
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330mm
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221mm
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526mm
Can be connected
using either a USB
or a Parallel cable.
Photo quality per-
fection at 2400 x
1200 dots per
inch resolution.
Print up to 16
pages per minute
in black and 8 per
minute in colour
in draft mode
Look forward to a
super-heavy 60,000
pages printer duty-
cycle.
Experience sharp,
black, laser-like
text, which is
even waterproof.
The business-class
option gives you
doubled-sided
printing, multi-
page printing (up
to 16 copies per A4
page) as well as
poster and booklet
format printing
User-friendly soft-
ware and easy-to-
operate cartridge
and paper changing
makes printing fun
and simple for eve-
ryone.
Windows & Mac
drivers included.
.Thermal Ink Jet Printer
.Resolution
- Black DPI: Up to 2400 x 1200 on all media
- Color DPI: Up to 2400 x 1200 on all media
- Black ink drop size: 28pl
- Colour ink drop size: 7pl
- Black cartridge nozzles: 208
- Colour cartridge nozzles: 192 (64 / colours)
.Speed
- Up to 16 pages per minute for a black text in Quick
mode
- Up to 8 pages per minute for a colour page in Quick
mode
.Easy to install & use
- One Click Printer Installation
- Accu-Feed Paper Handling with Drop & Go
- Print Cartridge Detection
- Easy Cartridge Installation with innovative Smart
Cover design
- Dual-Cartridge Design
- Photo Cartridge Support
- Ink Level Indicator
- Business Class Paper Handling
.Paper handling
Automatic Sheet Feed:
- Paper: 100 Sheets (10 mm stack height)
- Envelopes: 10 Envelopes
- Labels: 25 Sheets (auto fed)
- Transparencies: 25 Transparencies (auto fed)
- Hagaki: 30 cards (auto fed)
- Card Stock: 10 Sheets (auto fed)
- Banner printing (up to 20 sheets) from the printer stand
- Exit Tray: 50 sheets
.Duty cycle
- 60 000 - maximum monthly usage: 5000 pages/month
.Warranty
- Warranty condition: 1 year on-site exchange
.Environmental features
- Ink-saver mode
- Energy Star compliant
- Acoustics 45 dBA
.Size/Weight
- Printer closed: L 460 mm x W 302 mm x H 221 mm
- Printer open: L 460 mm x W 526 mm x H 330 mm
- Printer: 4 kg + Power Supply: 1,1 kg
.Compatibility
- Win 95/98/ME – Win NT 4.0 – Win 2000 – Win XP
- Prints from DOS applications running under Windows
- Mac OS 8.6/9.1, OS X
- Linux Red Hat 6.1, Suse 2.6, Mandrake 7.0 or higher
- Win XP, Mac OS X, Linux drivers are or will be
available on the web at initial release
.Connectivity
- Parallel cable: IEEE-1284 Compliant bi-directional
parallel cable (Lexmark P/N 70G3035)
- USB Cable (Lexmark P/N 43H5856) Mac OS 8.6, 9.1,
X, Windows 98 & 2000 only
Minimum System Requirements
Operating System Processor (Mhz) RAM (MB) Hard Disk (MB)
Windows 95/98 Pentium 133 16 50
Windows ME Pentium 150 32 50
Windows NT 4.0 Pentium 133 32 286
Windows 2000 Pentium 200 64 286
Windows XP Pentium 200 64 286
Linux Pentium 133 32 20
Mac 8.6 /9.1 G3 300 64 12
Mac OS X G3 300 128 40
.Supplies
- High-Resolution Black Cartridge - PN 12A1970
- High-Resolution Color Cartridge - PN 15M0120
- High-Resolution Photo Cartridge - PN 12A1990
- HR Color Cartridge, High Yield - PN 15M0125
- HR Black Cartridge, High Yield - PN 12A1975
.Box content
Lexmark Z53 Color Jetprinter
External power supply
High resolution color print cartridge PN 15M0120
High resolution black print cartridge PN 12A1970
Windows/Mac Printer Driver CD-Rom
Getting Started Sheet + User Guide and Warranty
www.lexmark.com
Lexmark, Color Jetprinter and ColorFine are trademarks of Lexmark International, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective holders. All product specifications or features are subject to change without notice. Mac and
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Easy,
Flexible Printing
2400 x 1200 dpi
8 ppm
Professional
Performance Printing
2400 x 1200 dpi
16 ppm
Ultimate
Photo Printing
2400 x 1200 dpi
12 ppm
High Performance
for Everyday Printing
2400 x 1200 dpi
9 ppm
Easy,
Flexible Printing
1200 x 1200 dpi
6 ppm
Printing
Fun @ Home
1200 x 1200 dpi
7 ppm
Photo Quality Perfection at 2400 x 1200 dpi www.lexmark.com
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The original A4 sample
was printed in 4.5 sec.
The original A6 photo
was printed in 1 min 3 sec.
The Lexmark Z53 delivers the ultimate in high resolution
printing, in both speed and professional photo quality output.
Designed to boost business performance from
day one, the Z53 will rival many laser printers
with speeds of up to 16ppm in black. Even in
colour, the Z53 keeps pace with your busy work-
place with an impressive 8ppm and a quality of
output that is simply unrivalled in its class.
With a resolution of 2400 x 1200 dpi and Lexmark’s
exclusive new generation of infrared readable,
pigmented black ink, text documents are crisper,
denser and sharper than ever before even on plain
paper. And because the ink is pigmented, output is both
fade resistant and waterproof, ensuring outstanding
archivability for all your text documents.
There are no limits to the Z53 –the driver
features many document management
features to handle duplex (double sided), job
finishing and multi-up (2,3,4 and 8-up) printing,
saving you both time and money. You’ll be able
to print on a wide variety of media types to produce
powerful presentations and professional publications.
And with a duty cycle of 60,000 pages, this printer is a real workhorse,
capable of handling the most demanding environments.
Professional performance for busines
Technologies
Lexmark
Prepare to be impressed!
Attheheartoftheinkjetprinterlies the
printhead itself, the key part of inkjet
technology. Lexmark has developed
this printhead to deliver
a super high resolution of
2400x1200dpi with extreme
accuracy, and at the same
time, created a printhead
that is so compact it can
be integrated into the ink
cartridge. As part of the
replaceable cartridge,
rather than the printer
itself, print quality is gua-
ranteed to achieve 100%
performance throughout
the life of the printer.
•
Lexmarkcolour Printhead:
192 separate nozzles
precisely cut by excimer
laser ablation fires
microscopic 7pl drops.
These drops are so small
that a single drop on a
page produces a spot
about half the diameter
of a human hair. With
extreme accuracy we
can place up to 2.88 million of these
droplets on a single square inch of
page.
This results in outstanding photo quality
showing millions of smooth and
vibrant colours.
•Blackandcolour inks: Lexmark deve-
lops and manufactures its own inks
toensure maximum performanceand
results that are unequalled in quality,
sharpness, depth of colour and
smooth gradients.
•Interactive driver with enhanced
functions:
•Compatible with PC, MAC and Linux
with built in parallel and USB port.
Standard black ink
Foam
Ink
Printhead
Reservoirs
Tank
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ss class results
Problem free installation and operation
2.88 million, accurately placed dots
per square inch, create the perfect
output, making the Z53 the ideal
machine for printing computer-
generated images, to high quality
digital or analogue photos. All your
output will benefit from ultra-fine
detail, flawless transitions, rich
depth of colours and lifelike skin
tones.
The ultimate in photo quality output
www.lexmark.com
Just one click installs the Lexmark Z53 driver soft-
ware, giving you instant on-screen access to vital
printer information and print driver options.
Lexmark's professional Accu-Feed mecha-
nism is the key to the Z53’s paper feeding
system, preventing paper jams, and handling
a wide variety of media up to 270gsm2.
Professional
Performance
Printing
Lexmark Z53,
2400 x 1200 dpi
Professional offset
printing process
Lexmark Z53,
black pigmented ink
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