Performance
Starting with the printer, we got a performance that was quite similar to what we got from Lexmark's own Z645 budget printer. The print quality was visibly dithered and the sharpness levels were relatively unsatisfactory; and this was on high quality glossy photo paper. The colors seemed bright and lively but that didn't help much in the overall result.
Regular document printing speed was a lot better than the Z645's at around 10 seconds per sheet. Add color and an image to the document and it would get a bit slower. One thing you don't want to attempt on this one, unless you have a lot of time to kill, is photo printing. At best quality settings on a glossy photo paper, the X 1270 took over 26 minutes on a full A4-sized print.
Photocopying was not too fast either with the device taking close to a minute and a half for a single black and white photocopy and double that time for a color one. Moreover both photocopies had around an inch and a half of blank area on the top of the copy due to the scanner's incapability to scan the complete area.
Quality-wise there wasn't much to complain from the black and white photocopy (besides the blank area), but the color photocopy messed up the colors by quite a big margin. In our test, the colors came out inaccurate to a high extent and the device seemed to have trouble in reproducing the browns in the test image.
I really think that this is the most worst printer i have had. It doesn`t even load paper you put the paper in and it falls out. it also has no paper holder so the printer will not be able to print copy or fax. 