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The Lexmark Home Worker Award is for employees whose employers promote flexible working solutions with home working options or remote working. Lexmark is giving away a fantastic range of wireless printers to enhance your home working and/or small office experience to make for an easier and better connected environment.

Lexmark Interact S605

Lexmark presents the Interact S605, the 3-in-1 wireless printer well suited to the home worker requiring the latest in printing gadgetry. The Interact, valued at £199.99 (inc. VAT) comes with a 4.3” touchscreen LCD which allows users to simplify complex tasks with inbuilt ‘SmartSolutions’ technology. SmartSolutions, Lexmark’s award-winning enterprise workflow solutions, leverage third-party developers’ tailored applications.

Examples of current widget-like, customised solutions include:
•    Shortcuts and workflows – time-saving customisable productivity features such as group faxing, scan to e-mail templates and more.
•    ID card copy – scan the ID card and print both sides of the ID on a single sheet of paper; ideal for small businesses such as doctor offices where this feature immediately cuts up to 50 per cent paper usage of this everyday task.
•    RSS feeds – business, weather, sports news, a company intranet – or whatever else the user wants to access via RSS is available directly on the touch screen and can even be emailed directly from the printer.

The Lexmark Interact offers Wireless-N connectivity and also allows users to be ‘green’ via its EcoMode, which enables two-sided printing. Users of the printer can always promise crisp text and vibrant photographic print-outs, guaranteed with the expert Vizix print technology, inbuilt to the device. The product is very easy to use, and any technical queries can be dealt with using the lifetime technical support that comes with all Lexmark products. Further, the printer comes with a three-year guarantee.

Lexmark Intuition S505
Perfect for use in the home office, the Lexmark Intuition S505 is a 3-in-1, wireless printer, worth £149.99. The device offers speedy connection to the home worker’s PC or laptop via 802.11␣b/g connectivity, and permits two-sided printing in its ‘EcoMode’, to keep paper costs down and wastage to a minimum. 

Crisp text and vibrant photographic print-outs are guaranteed with expert Vizix print technology inbuilt to the device. 

The product is designed with ease of use in mind, and any technical queries can be dealt with, using the lifetime technical support that comes with all Lexmark products.

And the printer comes with a three-year guarantee.

Lexmark Interpret S405

Ideal for the home worker, the Lexmark Interpret S405 is a 4-in-1 printer, worth £129.99 (inc. VAT).

The wireless device connects with ease to ones laptop or PC via 802.11b/g and has a mono LCD display keeping actions clear for the end user.

The equipment comes with expert Vizix print technology integrated within, to guarantee crisp text and vibrant colours for photographic print-outs.

The Lexmark Interpret S405 is protected with a three-year warranty and lifetime technical support for any queries from users.

The Lexmark Home Worker Award
Criteria: An employee who primarily works from their home.

1. Demonstrate Home Working.
* What do you do?
* Why do you work from home or work remotely?
* What is unique and innovative about you working remotely or working from home?
* What technology do you use which enables remote working or home working?
* What impact has working this way had on your life?
* Give examples of how remote working or home working improved or rewarded your working life?
 
2. Why should you win the Home Worker Award?
* Have you overcome adversity or a challenge in life to get work?
* Have you achieved particular success as a home worker?
* In what way is remote working or home working a greener way to work and why does it benefit you?
* What advice or suggestions can you pass onto others who may want to work at home.  
* Give a brief paragraph or details of why you should win this award.
 
3. Your Employer
* What company do you work for. Please give some details on why your company allows you to work this way and how it has helped them with their employment or recruitment solutions.
* Please feel free to mention your manager or boss or get them to give you a quote on how your working from home has helped the company.

Early entrants who are shortlisted as a Semi Finalist will benefit from extra publicity!