Lomond EvoJet Office review

There’s little time to appreciate such subtleties while the EvoJet is at work, however. We cued up our regular black text test and watched open-mouthed as it shot out at more than 45 pages per minute (ppm), closely followed by our taxing colour test at nearly 31ppm. While these may seem a way off the claimed 60ppm speed, we usually include the time taken to create the print job and send it to the printer. Removing this, the text test hit exactly 60ppm, with colour lagging only slightly behind. It’s an astonishing result for any printer at this price, let alone an inkjet.

Fast inkjet prints are rarely impressive, but the only fault we could find with those from the EvoJet was that on plain paper they were a little faint, lacking the impact we’d expect from a good colour laser. Printing on Lomond’s own coated matte paper, text and graphics became incredibly punchy, but at 3p a sheet the extra quality is only worth it for special presentations. Surprisingly, given that photos were spat out almost as quickly as plain paper prints, the results on Lomond’s glossy paper were impressive, let down only slightly by a couple of very faint vertical lines. It’s quite uncanny watching photos this good appear so quickly.

Fortunately, Lomond hasn’t dropped the ball when it comes to the EvoJet’s running costs. Even allowing for a new print head after the rated 45,000 pages, mixed pages of text and colour graphics should cost only about 4p each, slightly less than the most cost-efficient workgroup colour lasers in the same price range – which will run up higher electricity bills. Combining quality, speed and value, this really is a remarkable printer.