Lexmark has a lot of all-in-ones in its stable, but the newly launched Lexmark X9350 is the best equipped of the lot. Designed to be a top-end home or home-office device, it should be able to handle a wide cross-section of printing tasks.

There’s a good suite of application software provided with this all-in-one, including ABBEY FineReader OCR and the Presto PageManager document manager. There’s also Lexmark’s Productivity Suite, which includes basic photo management and editing.

Print speeds aren’t impressive, with our five-page test taking just under a minute to complete and the text and graphics print taking over two minutes. Just over 2ppm for colour print is slow, less than half Lexmark’s claim.

The conclusion is that the Lexmark X9350 has all the bells and whistles of a top-of-the-range multi-function: duplex print, wireless, network and USB connections, LCD display, fax and auto document feed. All this works well, but the fundamentals, like print speed and photo quality, are still not up with its rivals. If you can live with these shortcomings, the machine is a delight to use.