Lexmark Tuesday rolled out 10 new printers. Among the spate of new releases, the most intriguing is the T656dne, a product the company said is the industry's first single-function monochrome A4 laser printer with a full-color touch screen that uses Lexmark's Embedded Solutions Framework (eSF), a customizable platform.
The workhorse printer has a built-in duplex and is able to print at 55 pages per minute. The T656dne also has network security to user-access restrictions, including IPSec, SNMPv3 and 802.1x network security. Taking security a step further, the printer has an alphanumeric pad for PIN authentication, plus encryption and disk wiping to secure the hard disk.
The other printers released were named E462dtn; C546dtn; X546dtn; X860de 3; X860de 4; X862dte 3; X862dte 4; X864dhe 3; and X864dhe 4.
"To be clear, [printer] touch screens have been around for a while," said Dave Hagan, director of product marketing, in a Web cast, but he noted that this touch screen is different since it doesn't rely on PCs and servers. "You may never again have to hear those dreaded words, 'I'm sorry, the system is down.'"
