Rating: Summary: Crapped out after about 12 months Review: Bought this thing at the end of the Summer. Hardly used it because I do alot of black and white on an old reliable HP laser printer. This Lexmark just bit the dust after about 10 real uses. Paper shoots out then it just keeps whirring until I unplug it, smells like melting plastic .. to top it off I bought the spare ink cartridges.
Rating: Summary: The best printer for the cubicle Review: Fast, reliable, sharp, easy to use, economic, and "It Simply Works!". The fast part is what I love the most. Faster than a laser printer in draft mode and still look good.
Rating: Summary: Just what I was looking for!! Review: I bought this printer about 9 months ago. With every other printer I've had, something always went wrong. Not with this Lexmark! I have printed over 2 color cartridges worth of photos on this printer, and I must say, the quality is Excellent. I will never pay for Sears or Anyone else for that matter to do my kids pictures again! I bought this and a Kodak easy share 3.2 megapixel camera at the same time and I have been having a ball! I do my own gifts and cards and tshirts, magnets, etc...People are amazed at the quality! I have had just a little trouble with the paper feed, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I would definitely reccommend this printer. I paid... and it was and is well worth it.
Rating: Summary: Junk Printer - lasted barely a year and nothing but problems Review: I bought this printer last year with high hopes after owning a previous Lexmark printer (a cheap Z11) that lasted for nearly four years of heavy usage. This printer has been a disappointment from day one. 1. Once it actually begins printing a page, it prints at a decent speed. However, it takes a loooong time to start printing....you hit print, then wait, then the little "Printing Started" display comes up, then you wait, and wait, and wait, and THEN it finally starts to print. Very time consuming. 2. It frequently gobbles up too many sheets of paper at once and jams up. 3. Ink cartridges for this printer are very expensive and seem to run out fairly quickly compared to previous printers I've owned. 4. Several days after the 1-yr warranty expired, the printer jammed horribly and started shredding the edges of each page that fed through. After three or four sheets, it started printing blank pages. After going through every trick Lexmark's troubleshooting guide (printing test pages, cleaning print nozzles, wicking the nozzles, checking USB ports, etc) the most I can get it to do is print the test pages IN YELLOW....but only the test page....and after printing that several times, it goes back to printing blanks again. I've contacted Lexmark's customer support and received the standard form reply (which is the exact same info as what's in the troubleshooting menu, by the way....real help that is!). I'm off to plunk down the money to buy new printer now. I'll be extremely reluctant to ever buy another Lexmark after this experience - I certainly expect a printer to last longer than a year!
Rating: Summary: Junk Printer - lasted barely a year and nothing but problems Review: I bought this printer last year with high hopes after owning a previous Lexmark printer (a cheap Z11) that lasted for nearly four years of heavy usage. This printer has been a disappointment from day one. 1. Once it actually begins printing a page, it prints at a decent speed. However, it takes a loooong time to start printing....you hit print, then wait, then the little "Printing Started" display comes up, then you wait, and wait, and wait, and THEN it finally starts to print. Very time consuming. 2. It frequently gobbles up too many sheets of paper at once and jams up. 3. Ink cartridges for this printer are very expensive and seem to run out fairly quickly compared to previous printers I've owned. 4. Several days after the 1-yr warranty expired, the printer jammed horribly and started shredding the edges of each page that fed through. After three or four sheets, it started printing blank pages. After going through every trick Lexmark's troubleshooting guide (printing test pages, cleaning print nozzles, wicking the nozzles, checking USB ports, etc) the most I can get it to do is print the test pages IN YELLOW....but only the test page....and after printing that several times, it goes back to printing blanks again. I've contacted Lexmark's customer support and received the standard form reply (which is the exact same info as what's in the troubleshooting menu, by the way....real help that is!). I'm off to plunk down the money to buy new printer now. I'll be extremely reluctant to ever buy another Lexmark after this experience - I certainly expect a printer to last longer than a year!
Rating: Summary: Be afraid... Review: I had this printer for just over 1 year (hmmm... the warranty ran out at 1 year, coincidence??) and it died. Won't print color at all, but still prints black. Tried multiple color cartridges etc to no avail. After several conversations with support via email and on the phone (including one exchange on the THIRD day when the girl asked "What printer do you have again?") they finally said, "The printer must be broken". Go figure. My Z65 is now outside in the snow and I purchased another HP. Be afraid. Bad quality, Bad service, Bad idea!
Rating: Summary: Beware of ink prices Review: I have not run pictures and picture quality papaer through it yetbut the printing I have done has been black and white and is ok. A few glitches here and there. Some banding on color but I havent cleaned the heads yet. The big shocker is cost of ink...I ran 450 black and white text pages and and had to refill soon. I think I should have checked ink prices. No paper jamming at all on this machine.
Rating: Summary: Lexmark Z65 is Worth it!!! Review: I just recently bought Lexmark Z65 and Very Pleased. The Speed is Fast-Very Fast and Quality is Very Good. Every Printer has easy setup/installation and no exception for this printer. Text Quality is Excellent and Photo Quality is Very Good on Coated Paper not regular paper. I think Photo Quality for any printer is bad on regular paper, period. I like the Dual Tray feature, comes in very handy. I believe paper jams are Human error not Printer error. I highly recommend this printer because of the speed, quality, and efficiency. If you want Photo Quality printer with Perfection, you need to buy a professional printer!!
Rating: Summary: PIECE OF JUNK Review: I would not even give this product a single star. e it was so new I simply turned it in and got another. I bought one in August. It lasted less than 2 weeks, it was printing fine then all of a sudden where there should have been color was blank. it was so new I simply turned it in and got another. It also had a fun habit of paper jams,so if I was printing several pages I had to babysit it. Also if I wanted to try to add a section to a copy the registration was never even close. My cheap apollo printer didn't have the print quality of the z65, but is far more reliable,and the registration is is almost perfect. I contacted Lexmark support, they took forever to reply. The fun thing was that the reply gave the same steps as the trouble shooter. Recently I lost color printing on the replacement. I contacted lexmark support. This time they actually gave me something to do, how to get a diagnostic page printed. I attached the result of that page, and sent it. The reply was the same trouble shooting that I had done before even contacting them. I will never buy any other lexmark product!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Look somewhere else.... Review: I would not recommend this printer. Oh sure - it worked pretty well for about 8 months. The "cannot find printer" errors were frequent and frustrating, but overall the print quality was okay. Today it appears the wheel that pulls the paper into the printer has crapped out. If you consider the time my boss will pay me to pack this thing up, the time to dig out the old receipts to satisfy the warranty, and the cost of shipping it in to be fixed.... it's cheaper to buy a new printer.
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