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Summary: Print Quality Fades!!! Save Your Money!!!
Review: ...Print cartridges are sooo expensive... No wonder they give this as (almost) free!!! At first the quality (color photo) looks very nice... after (like) 7 print-outs (just 3 x 4)... goodbye nice quality!!! Say hello to 150dpi quality!!! I followed the instructions how to clean the nozzles and the rest (from Lexmark tech support)... still the same!!! Bad quality!!! Both ink cartriges are new (I have to buy the color...)...
Rating: 
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: Although I do not own this item, I installed it for a friend and played around with it for a little while. In my opinion, it is a much better product than the Z22. It is quieter, and it comes with 2 cartridges. I would recommend this to anyone who is in the market to buy a cheap printer.
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Summary: Consumes way too much ink
Review: Apparently a bargain ...for a 1200 dpi color printer -- but not at all, when you consider the extremely short life of the ink cartridges .... Print quality is good for a printer in its price range, but it really consumes too much ink. After just 200 letter-size pages with 1,800 characters each, the black ink cartridge is nearly out. The colour cartridge gets even worse results. Lexmark tech support (via email) was unhelpful and responded with a technical and badly written "explanation" which amounted to essentially zero. Extremely disappointing.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!
Review: I am so disgusted with this product! All I do is correct paper misfeeds......for every one sheet it sends through right it jams up 5!
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Summary: good printer, at right price
Review: I bought mine for my office at the beginning of the year, in a fit of desperation to get a printer, any printer, as long as it would print something on that day. Living in a small town, my choices were fairly limited. By the time I bought my USB cable and the color printer cartridge, then drove to another store looking for the black ink cartridge, I felt like I hadn't saved much money.For plain old black printing, it's not bad, and the per-page printing rate for normal or draft quality hasn't bothered me. Eventually, I figure it will make a decent emergency backup printer. My biggest complaint is the astounding rate at which I go through cartridges--... "Reconditioned" cartridges cost less but don't last as long. Refill kits are messy and run out even more quickly. Complicating the cartridge situation is the difficulty of finding the black cartridges. You would think that the store where I bought the printer would carry them. Wrong! Neither office supply store that I regularly use carries them either. (Amazon has delivered quite promptly when I've ordered here.) I do appreciate the ink level reminder that pops up every time that I print. Given the speed with which the ink runs out and the difficulty getting a new cartridge the same day, the advance warning is helpful. The cartridges also are quite easy to change. Having to print a new "alignment" sheet and attempt to make adjustments frequently proves a tedious interruption. Since I wasn't specifically shopping for a color printer, the ability to print in color was a bonus. Printing good-quality pictures takes quite a while, and the quality isn't that great. I have noticed that despite the ink-level indicator suggesting that I have plenty of ink, if one color is low, the warning doesn't let me know. For the most part, I've been satisfied with the color printing quality because it suits my purposes: a color-highlighted word or two in handouts that I give to clients and printing photographs of Victorian dresses for my living history research. The Lexmark's interface with a specialized software that I use for my business has been frustrating. Despite fiddling with alignment and calling tech support, the Lexmark Z23 continues to cut off the "tails" of certain letters when I print single-spaced Courier. Despite selecting the "print last page first" option, which works just fine in my Word documents, my specialized software continues to print "first page first"--which results in my having to handsort lengthy packets. This same software has never proven difficult with other printers that I have used. If I could just save some money from the cost of cartridges, perhaps I could afford to buy a real printer!
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Summary: Spendy little booger, when all is said and done
Review: I bought mine for my office at the beginning of the year, in a fit of desperation to get a printer, any printer, as long as it would print something on that day. Living in a small town, my choices were fairly limited. By the time I bought my USB cable and the color printer cartridge, then drove to another store looking for the black ink cartridge, I felt like I hadn't saved much money. For plain old black printing, it's not bad, and the per-page printing rate for normal or draft quality hasn't bothered me. Eventually, I figure it will make a decent emergency backup printer. My biggest complaint is the astounding rate at which I go through cartridges--... "Reconditioned" cartridges cost less but don't last as long. Refill kits are messy and run out even more quickly. Complicating the cartridge situation is the difficulty of finding the black cartridges. You would think that the store where I bought the printer would carry them. Wrong! Neither office supply store that I regularly use carries them either. (Amazon has delivered quite promptly when I've ordered here.) I do appreciate the ink level reminder that pops up every time that I print. Given the speed with which the ink runs out and the difficulty getting a new cartridge the same day, the advance warning is helpful. The cartridges also are quite easy to change. Having to print a new "alignment" sheet and attempt to make adjustments frequently proves a tedious interruption. Since I wasn't specifically shopping for a color printer, the ability to print in color was a bonus. Printing good-quality pictures takes quite a while, and the quality isn't that great. I have noticed that despite the ink-level indicator suggesting that I have plenty of ink, if one color is low, the warning doesn't let me know. For the most part, I've been satisfied with the color printing quality because it suits my purposes: a color-highlighted word or two in handouts that I give to clients and printing photographs of Victorian dresses for my living history research. The Lexmark's interface with a specialized software that I use for my business has been frustrating. Despite fiddling with alignment and calling tech support, the Lexmark Z23 continues to cut off the "tails" of certain letters when I print single-spaced Courier. Despite selecting the "print last page first" option, which works just fine in my Word documents, my specialized software continues to print "first page first"--which results in my having to handsort lengthy packets. This same software has never proven difficult with other printers that I have used. If I could just save some money from the cost of cartridges, perhaps I could afford to buy a real printer!
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Summary: I think its great!
Review: I bought this printer for the most part to print out photos. I,ve had it for 3 days now, and have made several 8 x 10 photos from pictures that were 4 x 6. All the pictures have came out wonderful. I dont know why there were so many bad reviews. I just make sure before I print out a photo that I put the setting on the highest quality. I think it is fine for home use.
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Summary: What A Fun Printer
Review: I got this printer free when I bought a computer, and there's a reason that it's free. The only thing it's basically good for it to print out typed documents which come out fine. Forget pictures though. Even small pictures are all blury and the printer can't handle diagonal lines at all. If you need a cheap printer right away, I suppose this one would be in your price range, but if you ever plan to print out pictures, pay an extra hundred dollars and get a decent printer. Why not go all out and get a laser printer?
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Summary: Awful Resolution
Review: I got this printer free when I bought a computer, and there's a reason that it's free. The only thing it's basically good for it to print out typed documents which come out fine. Forget pictures though. Even small pictures are all blury and the printer can't handle diagonal lines at all. If you need a cheap printer right away, I suppose this one would be in your price range, but if you ever plan to print out pictures, pay an extra hundred dollars and get a decent printer. Why not go all out and get a laser printer?
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Summary: Cheap but still a waste of money
Review: I purchased my Z23 less than a year ago along with the
black toner cartridge. It did a nice job for the first
few weeks. I've printed maybe 20 lightly colored pages.
After sitting for several weeks with out
use, the printer has never been the same. Streaks and
now complete loss of two colors. I emailed technical
support over a week ago and still haven't gotten a reply.
I've tried their online suggestions for cleaning the cartridges
with little inprovement. My experience with this product has been bad. I dare not
invest in another ink cartridge with as unreliable they
have been for me.
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