You’ve probably seen utterly the couple of flatbed scanner bars in your lifetime, but the $400 Lexmark Genesis printer doesn’t have a single of those — it’s got a 10 megapixel digital camera with the fish-eye lens that produces nigh-instant images. 750 milliseconds after you close the front-facing indicate bay, a CMOS sensor generates a preview on a 4.3-inch tone touchscreen, as well as 2.2 seconds after which, it’s got the full 300 dpi picture saved on your USB-connected computer or winging its approach across 802.11n WiFi. The company’s calling the complement FlashScan, and a tender speed was really considerable when you saw it in San Francisco this week, even yet other tools of a imitation complement left something to be desired.

The printer uses special algorithms to interpret the fish-eye image behind into a flat piece as well as reproduces content utterly good, though a identical twin RGB flashes it fires to reproduce tone didn’t always do an correct job, as well as we were unhappy to find the number of facilities (including some obvious oversights similar to image rotation for copies) weren’t permitted around a touchscreen. It does have the number of tidy web apps for utterly untethered make use of, however, together with the ability to scan right to Evernote as well as Photobucket as well as Box.net, as well as Lexmark told us it’s working with a number vital photo hosting services, Twitter as well as Facebook to let Genesis users directly upload. See it in action on video after a mangle, along with a full press recover. Lexmark Genesis camera-based AIO printer, hands-on

Show full PR textLexmark Genesis: a industry’s first AIO to broach speed, style as well as SmartSolutions

Flash Scan record, neat vertical pattern as well as the new Twitter as well as Facebook SmartSolutions title the printer category’s ultimate, most innovative product

LEXINGTON, Ky. as well as LAS VEGAS, Oct. 15, 2010 – Today from BlogWorld, Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) launched a ultimate further to the award-winning lineup of Web-connected, all-in-one (AIO) inkjet printers – Lexmark Genesis.

Last year, Lexmark introduced a line of inkjet AIOs that delivered absolute and robust copy technology designed for today’s wireless, Web-connected workplace. The Lexmark Genesis, built on the same inkjet height, extends a line as well as targets savvy professionals and small business as well as home office business who are looking for the device which has innovative technology, is highly prolific as well as is also confidant as well as stylish.

“From the singular, neat honest pattern to a extended operation of SmartSolutions, the Lexmark Genesis is indeed an innovative, one-of-a-kind product in today’s AIO marketplace,” pronounced Paul Rooke, Lexmark executive clamp president as well as president of the Imaging Solutions Division. “Most importantly, after a discerning and easy setup, busy professionals will immediately knowledge its time-saving instant preview, discerning copies as well as unmatched speed when scanning content to the cloud.” Through the built-in innovative camera record, Flash Scan, that boasts the 10-megapixel imaging sensor, a Lexmark Genesis delivers blazing scanning speeds that enable the AIO to send a page from “request to digital” in as few as three seconds.

In further to the innovative Flash Scan record, a Lexmark Genesis comes equipped with worldly facilities and functionality, together with a 4.3-inch capacitive tone hold screen that is also available on Lexmark’s other award-winning AIOs, the Platinum, Pinnacle and Interact. This hold screen serves as the gateway to Web-connected technology allowing bustling professionals to entrance Lexmark’s SmartSolutions, including well-known, cloud-based applications such as Stamps.com, Evernote, Box.net as well as TripIt.

Just voiced today along with Lexmark Genesis have been the Twitter as well as Facebook SmartSolutions. These SmartSolutions will capacitate users to corkscrew through as well as search their Twitter feeds as well as perspective their Facebook walls as well as imitation photos right from the device. Twitter is currently accessible for download. Facebook will be available next month.

Via Engadget