Printer Reviews

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.

It is an average printer and the above mentioned prices are just enough. There is nothing really special about it at all. Only advantage is that it works both with MAC and PC. One BIG problem is: the ink cartridges are very expensive, more expensive the printer itself. So it is not a good buy. I used to have one do not recommend it.

This printer is ok i'am using it with a mac OS 9.2.2 sometimes it has computer problems but I fix them like
sometimes it says printer is busy. I bought it at Rite Aid
for $30 in the summer I had to get my computer upgraded
on MB's because I did not have enough.

This cartridge worked well in the beginning, but then clogged often requiring frequent cleanings. The colors just don't cut it with photos, they are not properly balanced, specifically with the skin tones. I have the Photo 700 and I am very happy with my printer when it has an original cartridge in it!

And here are two good reasons why I titled this review the way I did:

1. The cartridge leaked in the bag.
2. The cartridge didn't even fit my Epson Photo EX (though the compatibility number is correct).

While their b&w cartridge works fine, I'd go with Epson original color cartridge.

I wasted more money in ink and photo paper with clogged heads than I did in actual printing. Poor color rendition and way too many head clogs for me. Save your money and buy the real Epson cartridge or search for another manufacuter.

As much as I've tried to get my temper under control, the piece of crap from Lexmark has almost sent me over the edge. I've finally given up toady as I ripped the entire unit off my desk, threw it out the door, and commenced to stomp it into oblivion in the driveway, much to the horror of my neighbors.. The paper jams, printing poblems and quality is THE WORST I've ever seen.

This will be my LAST purchase from Lexmark.

My real rating is minus ten stars. >:-<

I'm really surprised to read that anyone is a fan of this printer. I bought this printer after my daughter was born so I could print all her pictures and make photo albums. The paper never feeds properly. I tried everything I could to correct the problem but each time it yanks the paper to one side and reads "error". This is so frustrating. I've never had such a problem with any printer. Recently purchased a HP for a fraction of the price and it works perfectly. I've spent the past few months making those photo albums that Lexmark prevented me from making. This printer is very flawed and I'm not surprised that they no longer sell it. Did Lexmark even check it before manufacturing it and selling them? Can't imagine many of them faired well. Beware of the Lexmark X83!

I am a computer technician and one of my clients had purchased this printer in order to save the space of having multiple pieces of hardware lying around.

When it arrived, I set it up, tested it, and everything seemingly worked fine. The next day I receieved a call that his daughters had [messed] up the printer and he requested I return to repair it.

Once again, after a clean driver install it worked fine. I logged off and back on and it still worked fine. After shutting the computer down and restarting it, the software and driver loaded, but I recieved a "cannot communicate with printer error".

After working on it for an hour or so, attempting every possible solution I knew, and every solution lexmark had to offer (including replacing thier cable with one of my own), the printer still would not work after a restart.

After searching on the web, I found that this was common on about 75-80% of computers running on Windows NT kernal (NT, 2000, and XP).

I must admit, print speed and quality were good (not great), but images seemed oversaturated and the printer used roughly 1/4 tank of ink printing 10 test pages. There was such an excessive amount of ink that you could make copies just by laying the paper on another sheet.

If you dont mind reinstalling the printer each time the computer starts and you dont mind paying [money] in ink for every 50 pages printed then this printer is fine. Otherwise, I'd stay away from this one.

I bought this printer adapter and installed it on an HP Officejet 1170C all-in-one printer. I followed the revised instructions which came with the package (for Microsoft XP). Guess what, it didn't work. I tried printing a test page on Microsoft Word and it printed that page. When I tried to print an existing Word document on file, it wouldn't print. The printer got stuck and I couldn't turn off the printer at all. I had to physically unplug the printer before it would turn off. I looked in HP's website as well as Belkin's website for further instructions. I even read Belkin's latest instruction on the web dated May 31, 2002. This didn't help either. After numerous tries installing and uninstalling the hardware, as a last resort, I called Belkin's technical help and didn't get a good response either. They were not helpful. They just said it doesn't work with HP all-in-one products. Well, they should have mentioned that on the product cover. It would have saved me money, time and effort, not to mention the aggravation. I will probably buy another printer with USB connections.

The Belkin will not work with ANY Epson parallel printers.
No choice but to buy the Epson USB Adapter Kit.
Check the Epson site for details to see which kit if any will fit your printer.
Buying the USB Adapter Kit from Epson directly is the cheapest way to go!

I wasn't sure this would work, but gave it a shot anyway - I just got a new laptop with only USB ports (no parallel) and didn't want to have to buy a new printer too. Anyway, it literally took about 2 minuts from opening the box, to successfully printing. I'm running Windows XP, and it's a new Dell laptop and an old Canon BJC-2000 printer. I haven't tried yet and don't know if the scanner cartridge (that works with the BJC-2000) will also work with this cable, because it says on Belkin's Web site that it only works with the printing function, not scanning or other functions. Anyway, for what I wanted it for, a BIG thumbs-up for this cable.

A year ago my company bought 300 of these printers. Since then, HP has had to replace 30% of the sheet feeders -- an obvious design flaw. Luckily they are still paying for those out of warranty. We also have had to send more than 20% of them back to HP for repair -- flashing ink cartridge light (even on fresh cartridge), won't print. HP is NOT paying for these now. Instead, they charge us [price](+ shipping) for each repair, plus downtime. We are going to try a Canon printer next. Most everything else HP makes, including the fabulous Jornada's our reps use, are good quality. But these Deskjet 350s obviously have serious design flaws. HP won't step up to the plate and help with repairs; so here is my NEGATIVE review.

This is the printer it design is not to print.Paper jam, stupid characters etc.etc.

Really I recommend to collect all product from market.

I bought this printer with the "kit" since it was the only one that actually came with a battery. The paper feeder is clumsy, especially when compared to a Canon.

I ran into soem trouble installing it with Windows XP. I tried using the IR port and the HP 350 driver that came with XP (the driver on the supplied CD-ROM will NOT work with XP). It printed out as if it was a double image of everything. I called HP (after having sent one printer back for a similar problem) and after some experimentation, they suggested I tried using the HP 320 driver. That did the trick, no more problems. But, the printer is only a few days old.....

The price is good, but what they don't tell you when you buy this printer is that you will need 1 of the 2 ink cartridges in about a month with just casual use. Oh yea, uh, the 2 cartridges are 50 bucks.
Don't waste your time or money unless you're using it as a disposable printer.

This is my second Lexmark. I would never buy another. I only bought this second one because it was being sold at a fundraiser for my sister-in-law's chorus. It was brand new. First thing is that Consumer Reports wrote that the Lexmark ink is the most expensive of all the printer mfgrs.

I'm printing a Christmas newsletter on it. Gripe 1: The side with 6 pictures takes six minutes to print. Gripe 2: The black ink was half used after 40 pages! (This poor speed and ink performance is nowhere close to the specs Lexmark provides.) Gripe 3: The worse thing is that just like with my old Lexmark, the feed mechanism grabs unevenly, and the paper gets jammed. Or it doesn't grab at all. Gripe 4: After a major jam, it smeared ink on the backs of the next 10 pages, wasting lots of expensive paper and ink before I noticed it.

I have to babysit this thing. I hate it!

simple enough
I used a refill kit which comes with a small hand drill, rubber stopper hyperdermic and two bottles of ink.
Drill into the top (I did it between the raised part of the cartridge) once you break through inject into the foam with the hyperdermic needle put in the rubber stopper. then insert cartridge in printer lie to the software say it is a new cartridge and off you go. Colour is a little harder i believe because there are 3 ink wells to find. it is a great little printer and fairly economical once you know how to refill :-)

It's ironic and disgusting that you can buy a new printer for less than it costs to replace the print cartridges for this one. Sell a printer cheap, and get a captive market for expensive, overpriced ink carts.



Do yourself a favor - buy 2 new carts, and a refill kit. I've found you can refill these carts 3 - 4 times with no problem if you don't let them run out of ink.



Or find an Epson Stylus Color 600 like I did. The carts cost a few dollars each.

The current descriptions are fine IF you are in need of Lexmark or Epson JetInk Cartridges only. I would be delighted to see a chart made available to allow those of us with say, Canon or H/P Printers, to select the proper cartridge without the larger margin of error.

Lexmark has always overpriced their cartridges, but please tell me why a black monochrome cartiridge should cost more than the colored mate (170060)?

I purchased my multipass and it was supposed to have a color scanner (the book even said so), but when I called them about it they told me that it was a generic book and that mine was not supposed to have a color scanner. The book doesn't list any other machine except for my Canon Multipass C3500. Then my warning light wouldn't always come one when it was supposed to to tell me that I needed to replace the ink cartridge. And to top it off, my print head needs to be replaced. The reason I say don't buy Canon is because I have seen many of their printers up for sale (not just this particular kind) and every time I ask what is wrong the tell me they need a new print head. I've run into many people on the web with the same problem. If only I knew then what I know now.

Like a lot people, I went for something that could do a lot for little money. I knew the risks of buying a machine that can seemingly do everything. Well, I know nothing is a cure-all but I was hopeful.

1. I couldn't use the product for 3 months because of driver problems. I got defective software that included the driver setup. It took 8 weeks for them to send it to me. Took me another month to get it set up.

2. I finally got to use it and then almost immediately started having feed problems with the copy and fax feeders. I had to start manually loading each page of the fax I was sending. If I miscalculated the timing I would wind up sending half of a fax because the machine wouldn't accept subsequent pages.

3. The scanner is VERY poor. I wouldn't even consider it a real scanner. Lots of skipping occurred because this is the same feeder for the faxing and copying I don't think the rollers were built to have that much action. They should have put sturdier rollers/feeders on the machine knowing it was going to be used for so much. If I were using three different machines (i.e. a dedicated copier, fax and scanner) my volume would not be considered that high for each machine. But using the same feeder for all three functions is more than this product can handle unfortunately.

4. I don't like the fact that it doesn't tell me when it's going to run out of ink. Unless, I missed that particular function. But as far as I can tell you just RUN OUT. NO warning. I've learned to "buy ahead" and I used to think it "convenient" that they sold the black ink jet cartridges in pairs, but now I think it's a plot. Canon knows the cartridges have low capacity and/or the machines are greedy.

5. This last problem--the final straw. I came home last weekend after being gone for 5 weeks and "suddenly" the printer feeder isn't working and the function keys are going nuts (possible power surge problem to be fair but everything else is fine and I have a very good power surge protecting hardware). Anyway, called for repair and realized it's two months past my 3 year warranty.

surprise, surprise

These problems weren't constant but seemed to come up at THE most inconvenient times. Good when it worked but it just wasn't consistent enough to be considered a great, reliable product.

Would suggest buying for a college student not a home office--it's reasonably priced enough and should last through most of your student's college career. Also, a college student will have back up computer resources around campus in case of a last minute breakdown.

Its always good to see that a model is still available 3 years later. We have been using this in a light-med duty office for that long. It has really good features for a home office, color copies that look great. Relatively little problems for the three years until now, that it says its out of ink but its a new cartridge. Head cleaning hasn't done the trick. It does eat ink cartridges so be aware!

"w0w... this ..." is the first thing that comes to mind when you use this printer. The first time I brought it home, i thought, NICE a COLOR printer. Little did I know, this color printer is the most likely to be nominated piece of ... THe first time i printed something it worked really well. But after maybe 3 uses, the color scratched off and lines started to appear. The printer is flimsy and cheap looking. If you wanted to (which is not a bad idea) you could break it easily. The cartridges cost too much and after a while the printer messes up all the ink and never again prints with color. People, people, look at this, does this sound like something you want in your home? Put this ... where it belongs, in your dumpster. :)

I have used this printer for about 1 1/2 years. I t has just completely shut off and will no longer work. It is a great printer if you only want to print e-mails or print text for school reports. I tried to get my money's worth and use it for photos, cd covers and labels, greeting cards, and transparencies. They printed and were usable, but there were lines in the color. The quality is not as good as other printers that I have used for the same projects. The transparencies and photos were the worse. If you tried to copy form a scanner, everything was blurred.

This is a good cheap printer if your looking to print mostly text, but the color photos don't come out well at all.

I have boughten one of these and am not happy with it. It breaks easy and way to slow, it proves you get what you pay for.

My experience with HP deskjets has been sobering, to say the least. I have had this 'interesting' little machine for nigh on 1 1/2 years now, and the thing has been seizing up on me since three months after I got it (and I'm the only one who uses it). Not only does it take nearly a bloodhound search through the software to find a way to make it print decently in color, but then it goes and snaps a plastic part on you. It prints so violently and loud that you're afraid things are going to come flying out at your from the printer as they break off. I was able to 'adapt' to its moody ways in the beginning -- like whenever it ran out of paper it would seize up completely and I'd have to cancel what I was printing and shut down the printer entirely to get it back in shape.

What I've experienced isn't a fluke -- the HP printer I had before met its maker pretty early on, too. Do yourself a favor and buy some piece of junk from Wal-mart -- it's much more worth it than spending your pennies on this thing.

There is really nothing "great" about this printer. The ink is [costly] and hard to find. It is noisy and slow. The output is decent. I recieved my printer from Dell as a freebie when I purchased a new system. I really wish that I had paid the extra money to upgrade to a higher quality product.