Lexmark XC4342

The Lexmark XC4342 is the 42 ppm color A4 MFP for mid-to-large workgroups — same speed and form factor as the print-only C4342 plus print, copy, scan, fax. 7-inch color touchscreen, 100-sheet duplex ADF scanning at 84 sides per minute, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor with 2GB RAM, 550-sheet drawer plus 100-sheet bypass expandable to 2,850 sheets, recommended volume 1,500-15,000 pages a month, 120,000 max duty cycle. Cloud integration plus high-yield toner options (25,000 black, 14,200 color) keep cost-per-page down. The 1 thing buyers regret: putting it in a tight corner. The XC4342 is rated as a desktop form factor but it's a substantial piece of equipment — give it the room to load paper from the side, swap toner from the front, and pull out the duplex ADF cover. Sketch the placement before delivery day. Otherwise this is the right MFP for the 5-15 person workgroup that prints color daily.