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Lexmark Z23 Color Printer

Lexmark Z23 Color Printer

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't Buy It!
Review: Spend more money and get a real printer. Ink is expensive, picture quality so-so and it consistently fails to properly execute print jobs... partially printed documents happen far too often. This is easily the most frustrating to use inexpensive printer I have ever purchased. Never again! The only redeeming quality is the price, but only because I won't feel quite so bad when I stomp the miserable @#! into tiny pieces.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't Buy It!
Review: THE CARTRIDGES COST MORE THAN THE PRINTER ITSELF! Basically, Lexmark has decided to exploit the people who can't afford a printer that costs more than $30 by charging them more for the cartridges on average than any other brand of inkjet printer. It's a scam! Most of the time, you can't even find the black ink cartridges (I had to order it from an office supply store catalog) and I run out of ink about every month. For the amount of money I've spent on this piece of crap, I could have bought myself a good one!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Stay away! It's crap!
Review: THE CARTRIDGES COST MORE THAN THE PRINTER ITSELF! Basically, Lexmark has decided to exploit the people who can't afford a printer that costs more than $30 by charging them more for the cartridges on average than any other brand of inkjet printer. It's a scam! Most of the time, you can't even find the black ink cartridges (I had to order it from an office supply store catalog) and I run out of ink about every month. For the amount of money I've spent on this piece of crap, I could have bought myself a good one!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Lexmark Z23
Review: The Lexmark Z23 uses way too much ink. I just bought one color & one black. I bought a new stack of printer paper. I got maybe 1/4 through the paper and it runs out of ink. I guess it would be great if you don't mind buying ($$$) worth of ink every 2 weeks. Lela

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Lexmark Z23
Review: The only good thing about the printer is the initial price. Don't get too happy, cause you will open your bank account for the ink. When you open the box you will find the need for the black ink. After printing a few pages get ready to shell out more money to replce the ink, as this printer goes through it fast. For the amount of inkl it uses the print quality isn't that great. If you let it sit for a week without use be prepared for the streaking; that doesn't go away. This was the first Lexmark I owned and I should say it will be the last.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Sending it to the scrap heap!
Review: The wrost printer I have ever used. When trying to print photos, it will only print half of an 8X10 before stopping. On documents of 5 pages or more it will stop after about 3. There is just no guts in this printer. Even though I bought it just 2 months ago, I put it in the trash today, and I am smiling that, at least I will not have to mess with it again.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not Very Good
Review: There is a reason why this printer is an added "perk" given to those who are buying an entire computer. Issues dealt with below:

Installation - Uncharacteristically clumsy this time around. Perhaps I had a semi-defective CD installation disc but all sorts of installation issues arose.

Alignment process - Again, uncharacteristically clumsy. Your "choices" for the best "alignment of the printer cartridges" all basically looked the same (read poor quality).

Cartridge installation - Easier installation than previous generations of the Lexmark printer.

Cartridge ink - Ink is used up in the cartridge at an alarming rate. If one is a moderate user of the printer then the amount of replacement ink cartridges required would make this printer especially not cost effective.

Sheet feeder - With a new unit I had more uneven sheet pulls than should be expected. I also had a couple of mangled pages.

My recommendation is that one should avoid this printer especially is if one expects to do moderate to high volume printing.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I got it for free. So, why complain?
Review: This is a decent low-end inkjet printer. Be warned though, Lexmark does not include the cable to connect this to your USB port. You'll need a USB-A to USB-B cable to connect. Also, while the printer comes with a color cartridge, you'll need to add the black cartridge to make your blacks black. Also, you'll go through a lot less ink with the second cartridge in place. Other than that, it has proven to be worth everything I didn't pay for it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Printer
Review: This printer came with my new computer. I was very surprised at the excellent results. I use it with Photoshop Elements software to print high quality 8X10 color photos. You have to set your printer preferences on better or best and high gloss photo paper and use high quality photo paper. I could not be more pleased with this printer. I thought you had to have a expense printer to achieve such wounderful results.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Piece of junk
Review: This printer is a piece of junk. The software with it sucks, the printer is slow, and the print quality is bad. The ink cartriges are expensive (they are worth more than the printer itself now!). The printer insists upon cutting off the last half inch of text or it prints in the wrong way. The ink cartrige get very bad life.

Beware this printer!


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