color lexmark printer

1. ( 1 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 12 2008

   No Postscript support! So no printing under OSX or Linux without jumping through some serious hoops. Colors are REALLY funky. Images are not even close to being accurate. Other than that. It's a great printer for someone just looking to replace a monochrome printer and who only print under Windows. If you have the space for this monster. BTW the support Lexmark claims for OSX and Linux is a straight up lie. They support OSX 10.2, will not work with 10.3-10.5+ and no Linux support at all.

2. Posted: Sep 12 2007

   I bought this printer when it was on sale and included a rebate. We were using a Brother MFC8300 for years prior to this while waiting for the day when color laser printers became affordable for the small home office. That day came and we have been VERY pleased with the quality and reliability of this printer. We have a Qwest Actiontec DSL modem hooked up to our Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11g WAN port. I plugged the printer into the base station's ethernet LAN port. We downloaded the latest drivers from Lexmark to our 3 Macs, Powermac G4 10.4, MacBook Core2Duo 10.4 and iBook G3 10.3 and used the Printer Setup Utility to ready the printer. All computers saw the device and setup was flawless. They have all printed to it without any issues. We are very please with our purchase.

3. ( 0 of 199 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jun 10 2007

   Lexmark still makes this printer, but does not seem to be motivated to make a driver for it that is compatible with Vista. Pretty stupid, if you ask me. If you have Vista, then DO NOT buy this printer. It is essentially a dead paper weight without Windows XP or a PPC Mac. What makes it even worse is that NO DRIVERS will get it to print in Vista. Don't bother trying to find a "close enough" or "compatible" Lexmark driver for it, none exists. It turns out this is an "unintelligent" printer, which means all of the page processing is done on the computer's side, in the driver, and then the resulting image of the page is dumped to the printer, which is why this printer is so cheap. As a network printer it's pretty limited due to its limited compatibility. If you have a home-office and Windows XP, then it's a good value. It isn't worth it otherwise.

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