Lexmark Printer
Don't let the ad deceive you - the Lexmark printer does NOT print colours at all well.
Next time I decide to buy a printer you can be damn sure that it WILL NOT BE A LEXMARK.
I bought my little Lexmark mostly because it was little - I wanted one that I could easily transport between home and the motel last year. But it has been a pain in my posterior and I am so frustrated with it I do believe it shall soon find a new home in the big green bin at the end of my driveway.
Not only are the ink cartridges for it expensive, the printer is set to revert to using good quality for every print job - even if you don’t close the file at all.
It irritates me.
And the very expensive cartridge has a lousy output too - I needed to print one long document last week and it went through an entire cartridge to do only HALF of it. Bugger that - my Dell irritates me now because a tiny little bit of plastic snapped off in the lid to the ink holder. it doesn’t MATTER - it CAN and does still print - but there is a sensor in there somewhere that occasionally gets its knickers in a knot and will refuse to even try because, it says, there is a cartridge stall. There IS NOT.
Just now the Lexmark refused to continue my print job because the colour cartridge was empty. What the hell difference does that make when I’m printing in black and white? I don’t CARE that the colour cartridge is empty - and I do not much appreciate the constant alerts about ink levels either - even after I’ve bought replacement cartridges and clicked the damn box that said so. I sould not NEED to buy colour cartridges for the Lexmark because their colour cartridges print CRAP - even brand new ~authentic~ Lexmark colour ink prints washed out looking CRAP that I would never use for anything that matters.
Printers have become increasingly obnoxious, y’ask me. And Lexmark SUCKS.
So …now I’m looking at HP or Canon … recommendations, anyone?
Yay, I can get in now!
I used to be all pro-HP but I finally, after several spectaculer failures, gave up on them. I tried Lexmark, but got frustrated, then a Canon Pixma that failed multiple times.
I’ve gone back to Lexmark now and haven’t had a lick of trouble. I also had a Sanyo laser printer, just black and white. Never had any trouble with it either, but never got around to getting the $70 toner cartridge.
Hey. I have a Lexmark. It’s bigger than the one you have but I haven’t had problems. Except the paper feeder irritates me because sometimes it will chew up my paper. I usually take the color cartridge out and go to the menu to print only in black and white. Printers tick me off. It doesn’t matter which one. The ink is so expensive. And b/c I have very wordy Professors that make lectures that are usually 31+ pages long! So I have to print them out. I print them out b/c I’m blind and can’t see the overhead. You would think I would have enough sense to bring my glasses but I don’t. Anyway, I feel ya. It’s always when you *really* need to get something done that the technology starts to misbehave.
I gave up on Lexmark a long time ago due to the extreme expense of their ink cartridges. There is a reason why they are so expensive though. Lexmark is one of the few companies that incorporates the print head in the ink cartridge. This is the part that usually fails on printers, so when you replace those cartridges on a Lexmark, you’re actually getting a new print head. That should at least ensure you have clean sharp print.
However, we use HP products now. Half the time when those fail (after a couple of years) we just replace the failed unit instead of trying to fix it.
Well, it depends which Lexmark Printer you have. If the printer you bought dosen’t works well, that dosen’t means no Lexmark Printer will.
I’m MUCH MUCH happier with my new Kodak printer than I EVER have been with a Lexmark (I’ve had several). And ink refills are about 1/4 of the cost of less ink for Lexmark.
Lexmark printers use spyware in some of their models. My X2650 will not work if the computer is not hooked up to the internet. I tried their minimal driver options and it still will not work.
I’m going to drop an M80 into it and show it on Youtube. I already replaced it with an HP.