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+ I have never had a problem with this computer. I have not ever put it under a great load. I leave it turned off most of the time but I turn it on, and by the time I am ready to print a document, so is it. I don’t even see much of need to keep it in even power save mode (besides the Wake On Lan feature of course). It is so close to me so I am not bothered with that though.
+ I keep it plugged into my Wireless Draft 2.0 Router and have never had any connection problems. It is really easy to set up on Linux and Windows 7. The drivers were automatically installed on Windows and even updated when new ones were available. Linux (Ubuntu 9.04) didn’t even have to download drivers, it just worked the moment I confirmed with Linux that it was a Lexmark printer of a certain model. Adding a network printer on Windows 7 is as easy I could imagine it to be and Linux was not far behind.
+ It certainly is not a speed demon at printing either black or white but It prints out a very steady flow no matter if a page is color, black, or however complex (3-D Graphics and such do not print out slower than text. I love the duplex feature and it is adjustable for “Econo Mode” so you use up a little less toner on each.
+ It was pretty easy to set up physically. All the spacers and everything are all bright orange and pretty hard to miss. It took a little bit of figuring to see how to open and close areas of the printer but nothing too complicated for anyone to handle. Anyone would be able to figure it out eventually with just a little patience.
I love it, but don’t expect it to have the best pages per minute ever. Although, the cold-start and calibration I think is faster than average.
I bought this printer several months ago at a great price. When I first brought it home and hooked it up it did not work. I bought it back and got another which to my surprise did not work either. It was giving me a strange error message. I thought perhaps it was my fault, a user error. So to avoid the embarrassment of walking in the store again I called tech support.
The tech support rep walked me through the problem. There was a batch of these printers that when shipped resulted in a loose cable on the internal board itself. He walked me through unscrewing the printer, opening the back, removing a cable and securing it more tightly.
The printer worked GREAT after this. I have been using it to print mostly addresses on envelopes. The included cartridge ran out rather quickly. I assumed this was because it was just a starter cartridge. I purchased a new one which also ran out quickly. After all, I am only printing addresses on envelopes. I wondered why the ink was running out so quickly.
I decided to investigate and take apart the cartridge to see how much toner was actually left. To my surprise the cartridge was nearly 1/4 full!!!! The printer must be programmed to report “empty” when a certain amount of pages have been printed despite how much ink was used. Most printers have an option to circumvent this “quality control” feature. But not this one.
I would warn potential buyers against this printer. It prints wonderfully. But it is designed to have you purchasing toner on a regular basis. This is how printer companies make $$ now. They sell you a cheap printer and get you on toner. The cartridges are also design so that they can not be refilled. The printer knows when a particular cartridges serial number has already been used.
I’m having a different experience than other posters. The color I’m getting from the machine is mediocre. I’m printing PowerPoint presentations and any solid lines come out spotty. A solid blue line starts out blue, turns to light blue, then sometimes turns back to dark. If I print the same page over the line looks different. Often times I see little horizontal lines through solid colors and frequently I see large vertical white lines that go though the whole page. This is on a 1 week old printer with toner that the web interface says is half full.
Jams are another problem. Duplex printing jams every single time, on every other page. Forget about it. At least they’re real jams though, non-duplex printing often stalls telling me that there’s a jam when there is not one. I open all the doors and covers and there is nothign there. I hti the little check button and it fires right back up.
I’m using this in an office with 7 people and the thing is a real pain in the neck. People have started walking down to kinko’s rather than use this thing.
I have had 2 HP all in one ink jets in the past and was ready for something different. I bought this printer from a retail store, the comparable HP was $100 more and was way slower first page out. I unpacked and lazily set it up in half an hour on a USB local set up. I have only printed a few pages and I am inpressed. Printing a paypal email notification invoice with small amounts of color and scattered text coverage, 14 seconds from mouse click to in my hand done. Thats pretty fast. I printed some graphics with a broad array of color, very clean resolution and professional look, less grainy than the HP2025DN test page in the store (an probably on crappier paper than in the store too..) So far I am happy with my purchase. I was afraid to try a new brand but I was pleasantly surprised.
The start-up manual is written in literally every language under the sun, all the info is on the disk which is fine. They forget to tell you the power switch is on the lower left of the case, no biggie. Unpacking is pretty easy, you have to take out all of the safety shipping lockout pieces and load it with paper. If you can carry it in the house you can set it up yourself, not terribly heavy. If it goes into power save mode you can press the cancel button to wake it up and have instant printing again. Super fast! I tried to pring in sleep mode once and it took 1 minute to calibrate and then print. I just bought a set of 4 of the HY (high Yield) 2500pg cartridges from amazon for $280 delivered. Basically, so far so good.
This is the third Lexmark laser printer I have owned in the last 10 years. I really like Lexmark for a good print quality, decent construction, and good network and Mac/Linux support. This printer seems to be on closeout, and for me the price was right to take the plunge.
This printer is smaller than the usual workgroup laser because the fuser/imager is separate from the toner cartridges. Physically, this means the toner cartridges are very small–more like ink jet-sized than the usual 9″ wide toner cartridges. The printer is only about 14″ tall and weighs only 40 lbs. For comparison, similar Brother or even the Lexmark C53x series weigh 70 lbs and are quite a bit taller. So you should have few physical issues putting this into a normal office environment. The footprint with sufficient area flow room is a minimum of 24″ x 24″.
The price of consumables isn’t horrible if you buy from the recycle program, but it’s not great either–and at 30,000 pages, you’ll need a new imager for $250. For my b&w laser printer, I buy generic cartridges for 1/3rd the price at Monoprice, but they don’t have consumables for this printer.
The printer comes with a 10 ft power cord a good setup guide that clearly shows how to remove all the shipping plastic inside of the case.
Print quality is excellent. I bought this for printing marketing documents, diagrams, and PowerPoint slides–this printer does a great job out of the box with no calibration. Gradients are smooth and color borders are crisp. Text is very nice as well; font edges are smooth even on a colored background. Small white text on a colored background shows up very clearly as well. I also have a Canon multi-function b&w laser which prints only so-so text–this printer does a far better job of it. Large color areas look fantastic with no banding or uneven fill. For purposes of this review, I am just printing on 20 lb HP multi-purpose paper.
Setup was easy on Mac OS 10.5. There is a simple Web UI provided, and networking can be configured there or using the physical printer buttons and LCD screen. When the printer first powered on, a test page was printed with the Ethernet hardware and IP addresses once DHCP was configured.
All in all, it’s a great printer. The construction feels pretty decent, it’s relatively small, and for just a few hundred bucks with the included 2,000 page toner cartridges, there’s a lot to like here. I took off a star, however, for the consumables cost: The regular toner refills for all 4 cartridges is $225 from Lexmark’s site or $320 for the high-yield versions–which is more than I paid for the printer.
At the end of the day, I had color documents to print that are too sensitive to trust to Kinko’s and this gets the job done without a big impact on the wallet. If you’re printing large volumes of color on a frequent basis, you might want a printer with cheaper consumables and cheaper imager kits, at the expensive of a compact design.