Lexmark X4550 Wireless All-in-One Photo Printing/Scan/Copy/Print (1410600)
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Customer Review: Awesome wireless printer
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned this printer for 4 months. I wish I had bought it from Amazon. I would have saved $30 plus S&H. I love this thing. I've had no problem with wireless connectivity, and I'm a newbie to this. Just follow the directions. I run it off my home network with a desktop and lap top, both wireless. The printer lives in a room on the other side of the house from my office and bedroom (where I use my computers most). It doesn't matter which part of the house I'm in, it picks up the signal and prints high quality documents fast. The resolution and color printing for photos is awesome, unless you are a photographer and must have the best of the best for professional work. Then you wouldn't be reading this anyway.
The fax works flawlessly and was simple to active, even though it was my first time to do this. The scanner and memory card features work perfectly as well. The copier saves me so much time and money - no more running out to the local copy shop! The printer options are extensive, and you do have the option to print 2 sided documents. Choose that option and then turn the stack over when prompted to. It WORKS. And - the interface TALKS to you. Freaked me out the first time.
It does use ink pretty fast, but so do most other printers. Replacement cartridges are expensive, again, ditto for other brands. At least Lexmark has a recycling option for used cartridges that gives you a little price break. Plus, it's easy to reorder online. The lexmark site is easy to use and you can order replacement parts from there if you need them.
I don't know if this package has the the photo and picture Ulead software with it for photo manipulation, making greeting card, or other projects. Mine did from a different seller. I would have chosen to not have that to save the $30 here!
BUY IT!
Just keep the power cord out of your dog's mouth.... That's why I came here, looking for a new cord. I found one easily on the Lexmark site - I just hate paying that much for a cord.
Customer Review: I bought 4 of these blasted things.
Summary: 3 Stars
I was very happy with the first one of these I bought. I used it with a Windows XP desktop PC that uses a wireless USB card,and it worked perfectly for me, both scanning and printing. Then I bought a second one for use at my girlfriend's house to use with her WinXP laptop. It works perfectly as far as printing, but it will not scan. Instead of scanning it gives the error message, "Cannot load application list". Oddly, it scanned the first time I tried scanning but never again. I didn't know about the scanning problem and went ahead and bought two more of these printers for two relatives who had Vista laptops. The printer is not printing to either of those Vista laptops, even though Vista printed okay for the first week or so. I think this is more an indictment of Vista than of the printers. At one of my two relatives the printer works fine with his desktop Windows XP pc using a USB network card, yet the same printer does not print to the Vista laptop.
I really do like this printer. But the problem with "scan" is kind of show stopper until I can find a way to fix it. There seem to be a lot of people having that problem based on googling it. As for the problems printing from Vista, it's very disappointing. I do think it's a good printer despite all these troubles. Sadly though, I have not yet found solutions.
Postcript: I just wasted an entire morning uninstalling and then reinstalling from scratch all the printer's software from my girlfriend's laptop and my own laptop as well. Now the printer works okay (both printing and scanning) on my girlfriends XP laptop; however, on my laptop connecting to that same printer, I can print but it is impossible for me to scan because the message "cannot download application list" appears.
When it works, this printer is great. But right now I have more of them that don't work than that do work. I would never have bought this printer(s) if I'd had any hint of the problems I'd have.
Customer Review: I love lexmarks printers
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first got a computer years ago I got an HP. It worked okay for awhile up to the point when the warranty gave out. ONE DAY AFTER. Since then I have bought the lexmark brands and they are fantastic. Excellent work horses. I owned my first one for 3 ½ years then gave it away to upgrade to more features like fax and scan independently from the computer. I moved up to the 5100 series all in one and have had it all this time with absolutely no problems in the 4 plus years I had it.
You get so much for your money with these. This one in particular has so many options like picture bridge, wi-fi and is Vista compatible, 2 sided printing and scanning. It works like a charm.
I already had my all in one Lexmark as I said for over 4 years (not one year and one day like the HP) and I'm very surprised it's still working like new ever since I had to do a marathon printing job that took all night at 200 two-sided brochures a year ago. The copies were even better than what Staples cranked out for us to look at. I thought for sure it would die soon afterwards (especially in the third hour of continuous printing that one time at which time I gave it a short rest period) but it's still going strong after that abuse.
The only reason I got another all in one is because I got a new laptop that has Vista installed on it and the new laptop doesn't have media card slots for my photos. My seventeen year old is getting a laptop for his computer college classes and it will surely have Vista on it also. The fact that it's wireless means we can both use it at the same time instead of waiting to use the only printer connected to a computer in the house. The wi-fi convience won me over and I just knew with Lexmark I wouldn't have any problems with it. This is my third Lexmark printer in 8 years (my first one I gave to my sister) and I'll never ever buy another brand.
Customer Review: Terrible device, but Lexmark support is even worse!
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this printer to be used with my Vista desktop, Vista laptop, and MacBook Pro laptop. On my first attempt, I was able to get only the Vista laptop to install properly, both other devices refused to locate the printer on the network (although I could ping it from both, and even hit its internal web server.)
Tech-support was atrocious, the guy told me that I had to install the Mac first (!?!) and then everything else would work. This seemed pretty stupid to me, but I tried it, and it worked, but not for the reasons that the tech-support moron described. It seems that running the first-time configuration of the printer from a computer is the only way to get a proper "alias" on any computer, be it mac or windows. You can try the "printer is already installed, adding to another computer option" but it never seems to work, it never locates the printer.
So I got the Mac laptop working, then the Vista laptop, and then for some reason, even with a USB connection to the printer, I couldn't get my Vista desktop to ever connect. The alias would appear in Control Panel/Printers, I'd disconnect the USB cable, and the printer would just never respond over WIFI. So I contacted tech-support again, and this time I was told "Well, it seems like you've tried everything, so we can't help you." No offer to open a ticket and get back to me, no offer to escalate to the devs, just "Give up." When I asked for the support guy's supervisor, he told me that Lisa wouldn't talk to me, that there was nothing that she could do. He wouldn't even help me initiate an RMA (which I was able to complete on my own, the next day.)
I will never, ever purchase a Lexmark product again. The printer itself wasn't even that bad, but the drivers are crap, and their support is even worse. Please, please, do yourself a favor, and do NOT buy a Lexmark printer.
Customer Review: I Good Replacement
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently bought the Lexnmrk X4530 All-In-One after the store I work for recieved 2 off the truck. I checked if any drop damage or if anything was mishandled before even thinking of buying it. After buying it and returning home It took about 30mins to setup due to the fact I had lots of other things to do, and not because setting up the printer was hard. It was actually very simple to setup(I know from first hand experience that you do not plug in the USB cable before you install the drivers because that will screw up any devices install process because the OS will automatically set it's own defualt drivers to the device and that is a pain to fix). My last printer was an old Eposn Stylus Pro, Yes this was the big guns that made the Stylus famous at the tme. Due to Epson not supporting this printer at all anymore and asking $40 for a black cartridge I knew it was time to find a new printer. It took about two years of searching before finding this one which had everything I was looking for. I've heard all the nightmares about All-In-Ones and was very confident that there would be no problem, and I was right. In fact it was easier to set up than my old Epson was. The only downside I have had was that it takes about 30secs to start printing but I also have to remember I was using a pro before which only took 5secs to start printing. The scaning feature is awsome and saved me from having to buy whiteout. The copy feature is great because you never need to use the computer to use it which save time. I also like that it has a programable power save feature which puts the printer to sleep in incriments of 10-30-60-120-240mins which is very useful whether you are using the printer for personal or office use. This printer is a good buy for the price.