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Summary: What Was Lexmark Thinking?
Review: Okay, for fifty or so bucks, this is a good printer. The photo-printing quality is on par with printers costing two to three times as much, but the text printing is a bit lacking. It looks a little edgy and speckled. Little circular bullets look more like little misshapen octagons and such. Also, it's pretty slow for every-day text printing, and its photo printing is excrutiatingly slow. But, for fifty bucks, what do you expect? Again, for the money, this is a good printer. Now, here's the kicker. The ink cartridges for this printer cost, for color and black combined, over sixty dollars! Yet the printer, which includes one of each already, plus comes bundled with samples of mediocre photo paper, is over ten dollars less! So, here's my suggestion: If you want a decent printer that doesn't cost a lot of money, this is a good choice. However, when it comes time to buy new ink cartridges, just buy a whole new printer. Give the old one away, throw it away, whatever. Or, since the old printer will already be hooked up, just take the ink cartridges out of the box of the new printer, and give the new printer away, or use it as a paperweight (it's just about small enough to do that, which is kinda cool for a printer). Or, better yet, sell the new, never-before-used printer, sans ink cartridges, on eBay, in a garage sale, or even on Amazon.com and end up with even more money staying in your pocket! What a deal! The folks at Lexmark seem to have about as much sense as bean dip when it comes to pricing their wares, but that's neither here nor there when it comes to the quality versus cost of this printer. Again, it's a darned good choice for the price.
Rating:
Summary: What Was Lexmark Thinking?
Review: Okay, for fifty or so bucks, this is a good printer. The photo-printing quality is on par with printers costing two to three times as much, but the text printing is a bit lacking. It looks a little edgy and speckled. Little circular bullets look more like little misshapen octagons and such. Also, it's pretty slow for every-day text printing, and its photo printing is excrutiatingly slow. But, for fifty bucks, what do you expect? Again, for the money, this is a good printer. Now, here's the kicker. The ink cartridges for this printer cost, for color and black combined, over sixty dollars! Yet the printer, which includes one of each already, plus comes bundled with samples of mediocre photo paper, is over ten dollars less! So, here's my suggestion: If you want a decent printer that doesn't cost a lot of money, this is a good choice. However, when it comes time to buy new ink cartridges, just buy a whole new printer. Give the old one away, throw it away, whatever. Or, since the old printer will already be hooked up, just take the ink cartridges out of the box of the new printer, and give the new printer away, or use it as a paperweight (it's just about small enough to do that, which is kinda cool for a printer). Or, better yet, sell the new, never-before-used printer, sans ink cartridges, on eBay, in a garage sale, or even on Amazon.com and end up with even more money staying in your pocket! What a deal! The folks at Lexmark seem to have about as much sense as bean dip when it comes to pricing their wares, but that's neither here nor there when it comes to the quality versus cost of this printer. Again, it's a darned good choice for the price.
Rating: 
Summary: WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN HORSE DROPPINGS.
Review: PRINTED OUT FOUR (4) PAGES AND QUIT ON ACCOUNT OF REQUIRING A NEW COLOR INK CARTRIDGE. HEY FOLKS, IT IS BRAND NEW! THE PRINTER LASTED ALL OF TEN (10) MINUTES. TWO HOURS OF SCREWING AROUND WITH THE INK AND ZERO (0) TECH SUPPORT SENT THIS PILE OF MANURE TO THE DUMPSTER.
Rating: 
Summary: Great for text, but not for photos
Review: This is a good printer for regular print jobs, but it does not print to photo quality. If you don't print photos from a digital camera or if you are not concerned about photo quality then this is the printer for you. It is a cheap, easy to install printer that will handle your daily print duties, but photos are pixellated and off-colour.
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Summary: not the lowest price out there
Review: This printer is priced at 39.66 at Walmart.com
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Summary: Perfect for text!
Review: When the Epson Photo 820 (read the bad reviews; they're all true), instead of just using tons of ink when I cleaned the heads (needed often), started leaving streaks of black ink across the page, I tried to get some help from Epson's customer service. I found that a wasted effort. They must have known what the problem was (I've since figured it out from other Web sites), but refused to tell me other than to tell me to clean the heads or take it in for service. I remembered the wonderful little Lexmark that came with my iMac several years ago and how reliable it was, and I wound up buying this printer. It's wonderful! Fact is, I'm in school and don't print photos. I hate that Epson, which you can't run without both black and color inks, even if you just plan to print text. The Lexmark will run with just black ink. It does a wonderful job on text. If your primary need of a printer is text, you can't go wrong with this wonderful little printer.
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