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Lexmark E120n
With its small footprint,
fast performance, and
network connectivity,
the Lexmark E120n is a
good choice for sharing
on a home or smalloffice
network.
$149 direct
go.pcmag.com/
lexmarke120n
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NETWORK POWER ON
A PERSONAL PRINTER
WITH A BARGAIN PRICE, SMALL
size, and paper capacity suitable
only for light-duty printing,
the Lexmark E120n is
decidedly a personal laser printer.
This one, however, has networking
capabilities, which makes it a good choice for a
home office or very small office. It’s still a monochrome
printer, though, so if you plan on printing a lot of color
graphics or photos, an ink jet is a better solution.
Setup is as simple as it gets. The E120n’s speed and
text quality is, according to our tests, more than good
enough for any text you’re likely to print. Graphics qual-
ity is just okay, which is typical for most monochrome
lasers. For internal documents it’s fine, but I wouldn’t
use it if I were trying to impress a potential client.
The only real drawback is the low paper capacity.
If you print as few as 50 pages a day, you’ll be refilling
the tray roughly every third day, which can be quite
annoying. But if that’s not a concern, the E120n offers
a better balance of speed and quality than its direct
competition, and it’s a network printer at a stunningly
low price.—M. David Stone
5.2 inches
THIS DREAMY DEVICE
DOESN’T WORK
THE IOMEGA SCREENPLAY SEEMS
like a dream come true: a 60GB hard
drive that plays video, photos, and music
on a TV. Sadly, the ScreenPlay has
limited playback capabilities, is pricey,
and simply doesn’t work.
The ScreenPlay claims to support most flavors
of MPEG video, but on our tests, I had trouble playing
unprotected MPEG-4 files. QuickTime, Real,
and WMV aren’t supported, either. Photo and music
playback is better, although still not top-notch. The
ScreenPlay doesn’t support some common audio formats
like M4P/M4A and WMA. And if you do have
music that’s supported, good luck finding it. The navigation
is awkward: You must play or scroll through all
your music just to find the song you want.
And yet, that’s not the worst part: The ScreenPlay is
slooooooooow. Unbearably slow. It took me 14 minutes
Iomega ScreenPlay
to boot up to a navigational screen on my TV, and then
Great in concept but a
failure in execution, the
once I got there, clicking on any of the icons resulted in
Iomega ScreenPlay has
a 5-minute—or longer—wait.
more things wrong than
The Iomega ScreenPlay needs work—lots of work.
right. Don’t buy this
First, the performance needs to be fixed so that you
product.
$220 direct
can actually browse and view content. Adding playlist
go.pcmag.com/
support, better file navigation, and search capabilities
iomegascreenplay
should also top that “needs fixing” list.
lmmmm
—Joel Santo Domingo
YYePG Proudly Presents, Thx for Support
28 PC MAGAZINE MAY 9, 2006