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Summary: printer is a great deal
Review: I shopped and shopped and finally decided on this one. Yes the ink is expensive but 95% of the time I print on draft quality (using much less ink)and it looks great. It uses the ink when you up the dpi. I love having a printer that can deliver great photo quality when I need it. It is super easy to use, has never jammed, and is such a great price. Did I mention how quick and quiet it is? Great buy!
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Summary: Good medium duty home printer
Review: My ageing Canon printer finally "bit the dust" several months ago, and I was anxious to replace. Having worked with the more commercial "laser" versions of HP and Lexmark printers, I reviewed price / performance, making sure to consider consumable costs, ability to print on multiple paper types and sizes, etc. The Lexmark Z42 won hands-down. Easy to use, easy to change cartridges, good support and reliability are all attributes that this little workhorse brings to the table. My first "cartridge change" exposed me to Lexmark's support via their "chat client". I had a defective cartridge, contacted Lexmark, who walked me through problem determination and then resolved the problem, and sent a replacement cartridge. Good experience. The printer seems to handle most all paper types, and easily prints labels and envelopes. I've also used the printer to produce high-quality images on photo paper. Perhaps the only down side are the printer drivers. When I first installed, I used Win98, and was happy with the driver. When I converted to WinXP, I had a few problems, which required download of additional drivers (which have been updated since then). There is some loss of functionality from Win98 to WinXP drivers. Overall, the printer is a good value and recommended!
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Summary: Good medium duty home printer
Review: My ageing Canon printer finally "bit the dust" several months ago, and I was anxious to replace. Having worked with the more commercial "laser" versions of HP and Lexmark printers, I reviewed price / performance, making sure to consider consumable costs, ability to print on multiple paper types and sizes, etc. The Lexmark Z42 won hands-down. Easy to use, easy to change cartridges, good support and reliability are all attributes that this little workhorse brings to the table. My first "cartridge change" exposed me to Lexmark's support via their "chat client". I had a defective cartridge, contacted Lexmark, who walked me through problem determination and then resolved the problem, and sent a replacement cartridge. Good experience. The printer seems to handle most all paper types, and easily prints labels and envelopes. I've also used the printer to produce high-quality images on photo paper. Perhaps the only down side are the printer drivers. When I first installed, I used Win98, and was happy with the driver. When I converted to WinXP, I had a few problems, which required download of additional drivers (which have been updated since then). There is some loss of functionality from Win98 to WinXP drivers. Overall, the printer is a good value and recommended!
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Summary: Good medium duty home printer
Review: My ageing Canon printer finally "bit the dust" several months ago, and I was anxious to replace. Having worked with the more commercial "laser" versions of HP and Lexmark printers, I reviewed price / performance, making sure to consider consumable costs, ability to print on multiple paper types and sizes, etc. The Lexmark Z42 won hands-down. Easy to use, easy to change cartridges, good support and reliability are all attributes that this little workhorse brings to the table. My first "cartridge change" exposed me to Lexmark's support via their "chat client". I had a defective cartridge, contacted Lexmark, who walked me through problem determination and then resolved the problem, and sent a replacement cartridge. Good experience. The printer seems to handle most all paper types, and easily prints labels and envelopes. I've also used the printer to produce high-quality images on photo paper. Perhaps the only down side are the printer drivers. When I first installed, I used Win98, and was happy with the driver. When I converted to WinXP, I had a few problems, which required download of additional drivers (which have been updated since then). There is some loss of functionality from Win98 to WinXP drivers. Overall, the printer is a good value and recommended!
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Summary: It is cheap for a reason!
Review: The ink cost more than the printer! Although it is rather fast for the price and was pleased with it initially, we now have problems with it. It locks up the computer and often won't even print. This may be a problem somewhere else in the system, but either way, the cartridges for this thing are so [] expensive you might as well save the money and buy a more expensive printer with cheaper cartridges. i would not recommend this to anybody! it is a stupid buy. ... With that amount of money, we could have bought a brand new photo printer. As a matter of fact, when it came to buy ink for the second time in a few months, we said forget and bought a whole new printer, a canon...
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Summary: Great printer
Review: This is a great printer for this price. Great color and clear text. The only problem is the cartiges are expensive.
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Summary: This printer is so much better than my old Epson
Review: This printer is much crisper and faster and quieter than my epson stylus and my last epson c40 printer. It has been very reliable. The customer service is great as well!! Lexmark is the bomb.
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Summary: First and last
Review: This was the first and last time I will buy a Lexmark product. The Z42 prints at its fastest 2 or maybe 3 pages a min NO faster.And this is black. Freezes up at will, can only be cleared by unpluging and starting over. Tech support would be called a joke by someone who has a weird sense of humor. Had a replacement sent and it was just as bad as the first one if not worse. Paper jams like you would not belive. Makes so much noise and still freezes up. Not even a good joke. Like I said the first and last for Lexmark for me.
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