Comments on: LEXMARK X75 MULTIFUNCTION PRINTER

By: Flippers

Flippers — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:18:09 +0000

Canon is the best deal. The print head and ink are different pieces. Plus they offer models with 2, 4, or 6 ink tanks and their branded ink is very reasonable. Personally, I use aftermarket ink in the Canon with great results. HP is okay too, but their newer models have gone to the combined printhead making even the aftermarket ink solutions more expensive.

Buy a Canon. It is by far the most bang for the buck in the long run, due to ink costs.

By: dianasaurus rex

dianasaurus rex — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:11:47 +0000

I purchased this all-in-one with a firm belief in Lexmark products. The X75 really shook that believe. The print quality was so terrible that I returned my first one only to find that my second one was just as bad. The model itself just can’t function well as an all-in-one. As a scanner it’s great. As a copy machine it’s somewhat acceptable if you make only small amounts of copies, but as a printer, it is completely unreliable and often temperamental. Ultimately, it’s more trouble than it’s worth.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:57:16 +0000

...then it probably is.

I bought this machine to use as a stand alone copier, even
though it functions as a printer, fax, and scanner as well.
No where did it say that it REQUIRES the computer to be
turned on and connected in order to make copies.

In addition, it takes a huge amount of system resources and
a whopping 100 MB of hard drive space to install the software.
As a matter of fact, I was unable to install the software
(despite having installed countless other peripherals,

including several all-in-ones) without requesting technical
support.

The technical support number is unavailable in the
documentation, and once found, the only tech support for
this machine is a toll number! The technical support rep
I spoke to was less than helpful and laughed at my machine,
which exceeds the minimum specifications on the box, because
it was less than he considered optimal. He told me that I
would have to stop running all of my other software in order
to make this machine run. (I have 128 MB of RAM!)

Users of all-in-one machines, it seems, would often be
users who do not have the latest and greates computers. If
they did, why wouldn't they just buy the latest and greatest
printer and scanner? This kind of deprecation by technical
support is unacceptable!

I have each of the pieces that this machine offers except
the copier. At this point, I think I would be better off to
try to get an inexpensive copier than to try another all-in-

one.

But, there's one thing I know for sure. Of the thousands of
dollars I spend each year on computer equipment and peripherals,
not one more dime will ever go to Lexmark!

By: Richard L. Nelson

Richard L. Nelson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:56:29 +0000

i bought through QVC a Dell unit D 4500 which included this unit.I love it but DELL CAN GO TO… my keyboard failed after 2 days ( 9-15-02 ) and to date I have NOT recieved a new one.. I think that on Tuesday I will call one more time to QVC and tell then to get their ( Dell Unit ) off of my front porch.If it gets gone, oh well its their problem, not mine,I have called them// 8 1/2 hours on the phone and still have not had any satisfaction..Both Dell and QVC says that it not their issue, blaming each other. Well I have had it and they can get their JUNK (except the LexmarkX75 printer)which I will keep as for all of my time and frustration. Then I will go and get a unit LOCAL..Office Max, Staples or office Depot. I will be FINISHED WITH QVC & DELL. This has been going on from 9-15-02.

By: Wildcat1974

Wildcat1974 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:39:16 +0000

I should have known something was up when my stepfather, unbeknownst to me on his way to returning this device after a month, called me and asked if I wanted a fax machine.

My first turn-off upon receiving it was the fact that my computer has to be on for the X75 to do ANYTHING. What if I just want to make a quick copy of a document to stick in an envelope before the mailman slips away? For one thing, it takes my PC too long to boot and if I were interested in copy quality, I’d go to Kinko’s!

The second turn-off was that NO INFORMATION WHATSOEVER is available with the product, not even a customer service number. All you’re given is enough to get the device installed, which takes up valuable, scarce PC memory storing the user’s manual (which is also available online, but the X75 sits there yawning in your face and collecting dust until everything is installed). When you finally get through to a CS rep (they take FOREVER to respond to an e-mail), they’ll tell you to install the software and all your problems will go away. Really? Are you going to come to my house, pick this stupid thing up and pay me for my time and trouble?

Here I sit, A MONTH LATER, just now attempting to connect this travesty of a “fax machine”, and finding that the hand-me-down computer I’m connecting this thing to has neither a USB port nor space for a USB card.

Those technophiles who keep their new-enough computers on 24/7 would be able to benefit from the X75. The rest of us just trying to simplify our already-complicated, time-pressed, utility-bill-monitoring lives really don’t need the added hassle.

Low price, indeed. Remember, you get what you pay for.