Lexmark X1185 PRINTRIO All-In-One Printer Review

I've had a lexmark z-11 for nearly 10 years now and never had one problem with it. A few years ago,at work we bought a really nice printer with all the fancy doo dads so we spent 500 bucks on a Canon with the separate ink cartridges and everything. It was horrible to set up and use, the software was awful, the print icon was always giving errors and finally, six months later, it just wouldn't print anymore. That was some real garbage. Completely opposite of the reputation but I find that kind of stuff is usually over rated. People say that expensive stuff is better and it's not always true.

So,we had to replace the canon and I've gone back to a lexmark. This thing scans at lightning speed! It's simply unbelievable. For years we've wanted to archive magazine articles onto disk and get rid of the hard print stuff but the old flatbed scanners were so slow we'd quit after a day of it having done not even one issue. With this new scanner - we were done in a long weekend with EVERYTHING. OCR is perfect and it will even flip a page around automatically if you scan it upside down. The print quality is perfect and the machine is whisper quiet. Ive now had this unit about 2 years and it's been a Godsend. Ive been able to copy documents, scan photos and articles for webpages, and generally get my personal papers back in orser...thanks Lex !

I can't understand why so many people seem to have so much trouble with lexmark. I've heard nothing but good things about them and that's been my experience as well. As for the tech that had trouble installing the driver - sounds like a bad disk. I would've downloaded the driver in that case. I've also never had trouble with cartridges drying out or running out of ink. Seems to me like the cartridges print nearly forever unless you are printing reams of full color web pages and photos.

I don't see how anyone could hope to find something better than this even at twice the price. Oh, the lexmark printers do seem to be notorious for looking like they are dragging a sheet of paper thru the feeder slightly crooked but they always seem to end up printing straight.

  Worst I can say about it is that the printer cartiges are a tad expensive, but I got around that by finding a great seller on EBay of reconditioned cartridges (with a saving of about 60% I might add !)