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From: Mike Rofone on 24 Jul 2010 05:02
Andy wrote...

> This solution works for any of the other numerous problems Lexmark
> printers are plagued by, too.

Just found this.

We had a Lexmark MFC. It worked well. Was networked, could do faxes. Had a few
nifty features too such as detailed logs, caller ID reports and so on.

But at times if an ink tank went low, after putting the new one in it wouldn't
recognise it as being full. Had to do a fair bit of rooting around to get it to
work when this happened. And the color tank was tricolor, not separate tanks.

And it was also as slow as treacle.

Our No. 1 daughter now has it. Her husband decided to take the ink tanks out
(dunno why) and one of them, a refill, spilled its guts all over their couch
(again, dunno why he was doing it there).

We bought a Canon MX850 MFC to replace the Lexmark. It does so much more stuff,
is 20 million times faster, does duplux printing and prints to discs as well.

It misses features such as call logs, caller ID.

And we have to install specific software in order to see it on the network. But,
it works great.

We even got a package of ink tanks off of Ebay for $80. 2 of each tanks (10 to a
pack). Whereas the OEM Canon tanks are close to $40 each, even from mobs such as
Cartridge World.

The Ebay inks are working great, too, having replaced two of the OEM tanks with
the aftermarket ones.

And when you have to replace the tank, the empty one's LED is not lit when you
open the lid to get to the tanks. Makes it easy to spot the dud one, too.
From: SolomonW on 26 Jul 2010 09:42
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:02:36 +1000, Mike Rofone wrote:

> We had a Lexmark MFC. It worked well. Was networked, could do faxes. Had a few
> nifty features too such as detailed logs, caller ID reports and so on.

Never will I buy another Lexmark printer again, I had some problems with it
and Lexmark refused to give me the software to fix it.
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