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Summary: Z11 not for me
Review: I've had my Z11 for abt. 2 yrs., it came w/my puter. The black printed ok but the color photos weren't very good. I'm lookin to buy another printer cause this one was slow, noisy, & has already broke down several times. It did give on screen info abt. ink levels, selection of print sizes, etc. Not impressed.
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Summary: This a quality product for it's price....
Review: I've had this printer for about a year now, and I can tell you that if you need an inkjet color printer and you're on a tight budget, this printer performs very well for it's cost. It's compact so it doesn't swallow up the space on your desk.I love the easy install (just pop in the CD-ROM and it begins to set up on its own). It gave me no problem at all. I love the voice prompts ("Printing started") and the dialog box which shows you a lot of detail; for instance, the printing status, how much ink is left in your cartridge, etc. If the voice prompt gets irritating I can turn that off. I'm a scrapbooking instructor which means lots of color printouts and handouts. The print quality? Well, it's great for a 59.99 product. I mean, it is a LOT better than one would expect for this product. I've done prints of color pictures and the quality is fine for the work I'm doing. It's great for publishing your newsletters, brochures, postcards, banners, photos on photo paper, labels, envelopes, index cards, greeting card and even VELLUM (on transparency mode). It handles paper from 16lb to 150lb stock. It handles paper sizes including letter, legal, A4, A5, A6, B5, executive, postcard (4x6), index (3x5), and other different envelope sizes. I'd say this little product packs a whallop. If you're looking for top-of-the-line photo quality and you want your pictures looking like they came from the developer, I would recommend the Lexmark Z52. As for cartridges, they are PRICEY. At this writing the black (12A1970) runs for about $37.99 and the color (12A1980) for $41.99 in your office supply store. If you hunt around one can find it for a bit less. At least the cartridges are easy to load - just open the front cover and pop it in. Also comes with a cartridge storage unit. To remedy the ink cartridge price crunch I would recommend buying one of those Universal Inkjet Refill Kits for 24.95 (see http://www.hsn.com and type in product #35809), which comes with the black and color refills, also easy to use. Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, most printers do not come with the parallel printer cable, this one included. Buy an IEEE 1284 PC Parallel Printer Cable if you decide to buy this printer. BONUS: You get a coupon for 2 free picture-editing software packages when you buy this printer. Well, that's my experience with this printer. I'd recommend it highly if you really need a good inkjet but can only spend so much.
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Summary: This a quality product for it's price....
Review: I've had this printer for about a year now, and I can tell you that if you need an inkjet color printer and you're on a tight budget, this printer performs very well for it's cost. It's compact so it doesn't swallow up the space on your desk. I love the easy install (just pop in the CD-ROM and it begins to set up on its own). It gave me no problem at all. I love the voice prompts ("Printing started") and the dialog box which shows you a lot of detail; for instance, the printing status, how much ink is left in your cartridge, etc. If the voice prompt gets irritating I can turn that off. I'm a scrapbooking instructor which means lots of color printouts and handouts. The print quality? Well, it's great for a 59.99 product. I mean, it is a LOT better than one would expect for this product. I've done prints of color pictures and the quality is fine for the work I'm doing. It's great for publishing your newsletters, brochures, postcards, banners, photos on photo paper, labels, envelopes, index cards, greeting card and even VELLUM (on transparency mode). It handles paper from 16lb to 150lb stock. It handles paper sizes including letter, legal, A4, A5, A6, B5, executive, postcard (4x6), index (3x5), and other different envelope sizes. I'd say this little product packs a whallop. If you're looking for top-of-the-line photo quality and you want your pictures looking like they came from the developer, I would recommend the Lexmark Z52. As for cartridges, they are PRICEY. At this writing the black (12A1970) runs for about $37.99 and the color (12A1980) for $41.99 in your office supply store. If you hunt around one can find it for a bit less. At least the cartridges are easy to load - just open the front cover and pop it in. Also comes with a cartridge storage unit. To remedy the ink cartridge price crunch I would recommend buying one of those Universal Inkjet Refill Kits for 24.95 (see http://www.hsn.com and type in product #35809), which comes with the black and color refills, also easy to use. Hmm, what else? Oh yeah, most printers do not come with the parallel printer cable, this one included. Buy an IEEE 1284 PC Parallel Printer Cable if you decide to buy this printer. BONUS: You get a coupon for 2 free picture-editing software packages when you buy this printer. Well, that's my experience with this printer. I'd recommend it highly if you really need a good inkjet but can only spend so much.
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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: Loud, problematic, and messy. You need to purchase true black ink, since it only comes with color. Also, you can only use one ink cartridge at a time. I've had nothing but problems with this printer!
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Summary: Great entry level printer.
Review: My wife and I have owned several and have given them as gifts to children and grand children. They are easy to use and cheap to operate, as they only have one cartridge. They do a good job on greeting cards and other simple chores. Remanufactured cartridges are available at reasonable cost as are refills, which I don't particulrly recommend. You can installa black cartridge if you're printing mostly text, for example for students. Black cartridges are easy and cheap to refill.
Highly praised entry level machine, very forgiving if you make a mistake ,and easy to get back on the track.
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Summary: Great entry level printer.
Review: My wife and I have owned several and have given them as gifts to children and grand children. They are easy to use and cheap to operate, as they only have one cartridge. They do a good job on greeting cards and other simple chores. Remanufactured cartridges are available at reasonable cost as are refills, which I don't particulrly recommend. You can installa black cartridge if you're printing mostly text, for example for students. Black cartridges are easy and cheap to refill.
Highly praised entry level machine, very forgiving if you make a mistake ,and easy to get back on the track.
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Summary: If it weren't slow and ink was cheaper
Review: Printing quality is very good if you use the proper software, I have had it for three years now. And the only things that bother me about it is that is slow and Ink cartridges are to expensive. It becomes slower if you have XP and the XP drivers, but the generic drivers on XP don't allow to monitor the ink levels. If you don't print on a daily basis (which will make you save on ink cartridges),and speed is not a concern is a very good buy. All my digital pictures were printed on it, but you have to learn how to use the photo editing software and which one is better in order to get good results, since they wont match quality of lab printing on 35 mm. The Print Picture task on the MY Pictures folder has proven to be the best for me, and printing at 600 DPI will do the job 1200 is way slower and there is not much of a difference.
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Summary: Great value for the price
Review: Pros: 1200 x 1200 dpi. Easy installation. Great outputs on photo-quality paper for photographs. Inkjet cartridge is easy to replace. Paper feeding is not messy as in some other printers. Excellent lexmark software included. Cons: Slow in printing. Black & white printing could be better, but is excellent for this price range (The blacks are not totally "black", but I'm nitpicking). Costly cartridges, as compared to other brands (Canon & HP).
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Summary: The good and bad of printers
Review: The Lexmark Z11 is a very inexpensive printer. Heck for this price you can't go wrong. It's easy to setup and use (withnice 'voice' promots telling you whats going on with your printer). Igot this for my mom and she loves it. However, there are groups who will find this printer a bad buy: - Anyone who does alot of black and white printing (this is alot of people) - Anyone who needs high speed color printing - Anyone who dosen't like spending tons of money on ink cartridges. Baically you'll be paying ALOT for ink on these puppies. It's really expensive even for an inkjet. A recommendation, if you print black and white alot, get a laser printer like I did. They are, yes, more expensive but everything is sharper (all inkjets are compared to laser printer quality, ever notice that?) and you can print a ton of pages. For example, I have the HP LaserJet 6L (the 1100 sold on amazon is the same thing...next gen)...my $50 toner cartridge pops out 2,500 PAGES! The $30 black cartridge for this Z11 only prints 600 pages. You do the math. I'd also recommend the Canon for the color inkjet printers. There are, of course, ones to avoid...but usually there high end ones are very quick and produce great quality prints. You have to do some shopping around though. Another disadvantage is the one cartridge system that I thought we left years ago in the industry. This means if you are printing a page mixed with text and color pictures, you have to use the color cartridge which is expensive and does not produce good quality black. So in other words, find another printer and don't let the price sway you.
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Summary: You just can't go wrong for the price
Review: This is a so-called "windows printer", meaning all of the processing for the pages you want to print are processed by the printer driver, not the printer hardware. This has advantages and dis-advantages. The advantages: the printer itself if very simple and is therefore very cheap and more reliable than most printers of its type. Disadvantages: a dissapointment for Linux users and the main reason that the printer has a 4 star and not 5 star rating. I just could not find a printer driver for this printer for a Linux operating system. This is unfortunate and from various readings seems to be because the company forces developers to reverse engineer the driver. Linux development is very slow for the entire Lexmark series and win-printers in general. The quality of the printer is excellent and it prints in 1200x1200 mode at the maximum (pretty rough on the ink cartridge though) and at 600x600 at the minimum. It easily matches any other ink jet printer we have in the office and beats most color laser printers I've seen. This is especially true for photo-like images, for which it is practically perfect. The cartridges are a bit pricy though, about 1/3 the price of the printer itself which was a bit of a shock. This isn't too bad if you stick to 600x600, but a little pricy for the 1200x1200 mode.
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