Lexmark Genesis: An All-in-one Printer that stands upright |
Printers have now learned to stand upright. Maybe soon they will learn to beg for paper as well so they can get an ink treat. This is Lexmark’s first all-in-one printer with an upright design. It’s called the Genesis and it sports a 4.3-inch capacitive color touchscreen display for access to the printer controls and menus.
The Lexmark Genesis also sports a 10-megapixel imaging sensor that enables it to transfer a page from “document to digital” in seconds. It takes just .750 milliseconds after you close its front-facing scan bay, for the CMOS sensor to generate a preview on the 4.3-inch color touchscreen, and 2.2 seconds after that, it’s scanned a full 4800 x 1200 image.




The way to go when it comes time to buy a printer is an all-in-one. The devices take up less space and can print, copy, scan, and often fax as well. The only real downside is that if your AIO breaks you lose multiple devices rather than one.
We’re not surprised if you’ve never heard of the Celery fax-to-email service for the elderly. You’re hearing about them now, since the company’s rolling out Twitter and Facebook integration. The long and Short of it? It will help your grandmother tweet from her fax-machine.
Lexmark yesterday unveiled several new printers and all-in-one devices which are geared towards home use. Major highlights of these new printers include two wireless models and also an all-in-one with a front laptop port.
Most households have two or more computers but only one printer. Often that means whichever computer is connected to the printer becomes the defacto station for everyone in the family’s printing needs, which in turn means everyone needs to use it.