Lexmark Wireless Printer

[Fiona]

When I was working I had no need of a home printer because I had access to all the printing technology I would ever need.

Since being at home there have been times especially recently when I really needed access to one, so I have been looking for a reasonably priced printer.

I would like a wireless all in one, as I use a laptop and the printer would be upstairs in a spare bedroom. The one I have seen is the Lexmark X4550 - £70, does anyone have anything bad so say about Lexmark printers.


Cost is an issue so pleased don't tell me I need a networked laser printer

[Frankie Price]

I got one for free with my BT wireless upgrade and can't fault it so far.
The only spooky thing is the robotic voice that pops up on screen to tell you "printing has started" and then "printing has finished", but overall no complaints. (Yet)

[GLOC]

I have used Lexmarks in the past but I would look at the price of replacement cartridges.

The ones I had were inkjets and it was cheaper to buy a new printer than buy new cartridges for the Z55/65/75 printers that I had. Other than that, they were pretty good machines.

Regards

[Fiona]

Cheers Chaps

I think a Black cartridge is about £15, I just need to be able to print letters for now, although highlight colour would be nice.

It was very frustrating the other week when I needed to print a letter urgently and I took a copy to a little shop in the village which does office stuff and I had a professional copy of Word and they couldn't print it, back home to convert to pdf, she still couldn't print it and it put a little rip in my jacket down to my Brother's house to print off, no still wouldn't had to go home and get my laptop - down load his printer drivers and print from there.

Printing one letter took me about 4 hours and a lot of tears

[Timbo]

Before you write a printer off on the cost of cartidges,,look at the ink content of them and think that with Lexmark,canon and hp,s you are getting a fresh print head for the money...
As said ,, it's blooming frustrating for occasional users who get streaks and blocked nozzles on a print out that's required in a hurry...
Re- manufactured cartridges are good nowadays and often contain more ink than the origionals..
A get out of jail is to keep a spare cartridge for emergency,s
FWIW printers such as the epsons are buggers when the nozzles block,they die mechanically after a couple of years and the new ones are real ink pigs !!

[Hickdive]

Does anyone have a good source for re-manufactured or genereic Lexmarks?

[Frankie Price]

I've found the best way to deal with a blocked nozzle is to give them a good clean before consigning them to the bin. I use a Xerox WorkCentre 480 in my office and it's cartridges are about £35 - £40 each (from cartridge monkey) but before I replace them I remove them and spray the nozzles with lens cleaner and wipe carefully with kitchen roll. If it is down to a blocked nozzle, after cleaning, I can normally get a couple of hundred extra prints from both the colour and black cartridge before they finally start to fade.

[Frankie Price]

Originally Posted by Hickdive

Does anyone have a good source for re-manufactured or genereic Lexmarks?

Cartridge Monkey do both original and remanufactured Lexmark cartridges.

[Timbo]

These guy,s are good vfm ..
Ink cartridges at InkFactory.com
Price's vary daily, so a search is always a good idea.

Standing a cartidge on damp kitchen roll overnight bleeds out blocked nozzles and the kill or cure is to blow gently through the top vent with a drinking straw,,(over the sink of course)

In a past life, I used to look after print jet's on cartoning production lines and have spent many a happy time forcing fluid through nozzles with a syringe and catheter tube,,,,
I also inherited the office printers to sort out when they died,,
(hence the love of epsons).....

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by Timbo

(hence the love of epsons).....

Never liked them either.

I'm not a fan of refilled HP cartirdges either - had nothing but grief with them. Printer would think it was still out of ink. Put a new HP one in and we were fine. The refills were just not worth it in terms of time and hastle.

Adrian