The boundary between colour inkjet and colour laser printers continues to blur, as the colour quality of lasers improves and the speed and paper-handling of inkjets is ratcheted up too. There’s a price-band in the middle, around the £200-250 mark, where colour lasers, like Lexmark’s C543DN, can make a lot of sense.
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Like I suspect many other people, I have had one Lexmark printer, realised my mistake and will never again buy anything bearing the name, however cheap it is or how good it looks.
Perfectly happy with Canon, HP, Epson or Samsung (for cheap lasers) but the Lexmark badge will never cross my threshold again.
Oh hell yeah, I completely agree. I had a Lexmark that would just fall off the USB bus at random times and require a power toggle to appear again. How can you screw up something that standard?
Plus I'm no longer dicking around with drivers or that CUPS nightmare. If it doesn't do postscript, it ain't a printer as far as I'm concerned, especially for a laser. My US$150 Brother does PS just fine.
I once made the mistake to buy a Lexmark C520N Color Laser printer. That thing literally eats the ink in the toner cartridges or the firmware is rigged to report near empty toner cartridges after about 20-50 pages. NEVER EVER will I buy Lexmark again. I almost printed 1000 pages on my HP LaserJet 3015 multi function printer before I had to replace the ink cartridge. At least as far as printer goes, HP does it for me.
Take me to the landfill, just like the year before, sha la la
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Hmmmm, 2500 prints? Seeing that your super low cost korean contender for what, €120?, will only get you some 1000 pages, with the refill clocking in at €130, spending 300 on something with likely better built quality seems almost logical *haaahahahahahahaha*
No. Fuck this shit. Sell me something proper you dumbshits!
I will never again allow anything with the word "Lexmark" written on it in my house. My dad asked me to check whether one he had worked, so I stupidly connected it to my PC and installed the drivers. I uninstalled them afterwards.
Nine months later, my Samsung printer starts playing up. Had various rows with Samsung, messed about no end, and in the end, it turned out that the crappy Lexmark thing hadn't entirely uninstalled. I had to fanny about in the registry, actually delete a service dependancy and delete some stuff in Safe Mode. And I'd been unfairly blaming Samsung all along.
...since by default, all inkjet printers are shite.
@Sam: I've seen nothing but problems with HP printers since the demise of the LJ4 (the proper big one) line, they jam, they break, the output sucks and the toner is priced like it's made from cocaine. My friend's experience with samsung printers hasn't been good either - stripped gears and worn out feed rollers at a dismal 40k pages? That's only 8 months for a printer designed for 5k pages a month! When you can find a workgroup('cube') style printer with 600k+ clicks on 120gsm *cardstock*, with no servicing beyond the toner/drum, then you have found a quality printer. I de-installed some lexmark lasers in just this situation, although one of em only had 520k clicks.
When I buy a printer, I do the smart thing, and buy a lightly used older model - my T520 may be a bit venerable, but at a mere 69k 'clicks', it's not even broken in. Best part is, I can buy new 20k page toner carts on ebay for $20 each - WITH shipping.
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The boundary between colour inkjet and colour laser printers continues to blur, as the colour quality of lasers improves and the speed and paper-handling of inkjets is ratcheted up too. There’s a price-band in the middle, around the £200-250 mark, where colour lasers, like Lexmark’s C543DN, can make a lot of sense. Lexmark …
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Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 13:36 GMT
Sam York
Lexmark has a solid technological base?! #
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Like I suspect many other people, I have had one Lexmark printer, realised my mistake and will never again buy anything bearing the name, however cheap it is or how good it looks.
Perfectly happy with Canon, HP, Epson or Samsung (for cheap lasers) but the Lexmark badge will never cross my threshold again.
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 16:22 GMT
Gene Cash
@Sam York #
Oh hell yeah, I completely agree. I had a Lexmark that would just fall off the USB bus at random times and require a power toggle to appear again. How can you screw up something that standard?
Plus I'm no longer dicking around with drivers or that CUPS nightmare. If it doesn't do postscript, it ain't a printer as far as I'm concerned, especially for a laser. My US$150 Brother does PS just fine.
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 17:21 GMT
Brian
@Sam #
Yeah cos no one has ever had any hassle with Canon, HP, Epson or Samsung have they ?? Get a life m8.
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:29 GMT
Gaetan
Lexmark on my "do not buy again" list #
I once made the mistake to buy a Lexmark C520N Color Laser printer. That thing literally eats the ink in the toner cartridges or the firmware is rigged to report near empty toner cartridges after about 20-50 pages. NEVER EVER will I buy Lexmark again. I almost printed 1000 pages on my HP LaserJet 3015 multi function printer before I had to replace the ink cartridge. At least as far as printer goes, HP does it for me.
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:29 GMT
WonkoTheSane
You lost me at "Lexmark" #
They are widely reported as stating that they have no intention of EVER producing Linux drivers.
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:29 GMT
Bad Beaver
Take me to the landfill, just like the year before, sha la la #
Hmmmm, 2500 prints? Seeing that your super low cost korean contender for what, €120?, will only get you some 1000 pages, with the refill clocking in at €130, spending 300 on something with likely better built quality seems almost logical *haaahahahahahahaha*
No. Fuck this shit. Sell me something proper you dumbshits!
Posted Wednesday 7th January 2009 20:43 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Ha #
I will never again allow anything with the word "Lexmark" written on it in my house. My dad asked me to check whether one he had worked, so I stupidly connected it to my PC and installed the drivers. I uninstalled them afterwards.
Nine months later, my Samsung printer starts playing up. Had various rows with Samsung, messed about no end, and in the end, it turned out that the crappy Lexmark thing hadn't entirely uninstalled. I had to fanny about in the registry, actually delete a service dependancy and delete some stuff in Safe Mode. And I'd been unfairly blaming Samsung all along.
Has worked perfectly ever since.
Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 00:02 GMT
Rno
Duplex reduces paper costs by half #
What about a 3 page job?
Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 00:22 GMT
Brian
Funny to see all the whinging about inkjets... #
...since by default, all inkjet printers are shite.
@Sam: I've seen nothing but problems with HP printers since the demise of the LJ4 (the proper big one) line, they jam, they break, the output sucks and the toner is priced like it's made from cocaine. My friend's experience with samsung printers hasn't been good either - stripped gears and worn out feed rollers at a dismal 40k pages? That's only 8 months for a printer designed for 5k pages a month! When you can find a workgroup('cube') style printer with 600k+ clicks on 120gsm *cardstock*, with no servicing beyond the toner/drum, then you have found a quality printer. I de-installed some lexmark lasers in just this situation, although one of em only had 520k clicks.
When I buy a printer, I do the smart thing, and buy a lightly used older model - my T520 may be a bit venerable, but at a mere 69k 'clicks', it's not even broken in. Best part is, I can buy new 20k page toner carts on ebay for $20 each - WITH shipping.
Posted Thursday 8th January 2009 14:17 GMT
Gerard Krupa
Lexmark aren't a printer company #
Clearly they're an ink company who sell printers as loss leaders
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