A reliable printer of excellent quality prints (Lexmark X4550)

Member Name: Pilotgavw

Product:	Lexmark X4550
Date:	09/09/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Wireless functionality

Disadvantages: Expensive ink

The Lexmark X4550 printer is a very good wireless printer for home users, featuring a built-in scanner capable of high resolution scans and fax capabilities.

This Printer/scanner is an ink-jet style using cartridges black 23 and colour 24 which are fairly expensive ranging between £15 to £20 for No.23 and £20 to £25 for No.24, they can however be bought in a pack containing both cartridges for around £30, however if like me you print a lot of documents with text rather than pictures, you will find you have an excess of colour cartridges after a while.

The scanner also operates as a straight forward photocopier which is what I find I have the most use from, and for this purpose the X4550 is outstanding. The balck and white photocopy does lack some detail in the prints but the colour photocopy is almost an exact duplicate, producing excellent quality prints.

The X4550 does come equipped with a multi-card and usb reader interface but I was disappointed to find out that the format I use SDHC is not compatible.

The wireless connectivity of this device is superb and I have found it invaluable. Any number of wireless enabled printers can be connected to this printer and print from any room in your house, Windows Vista does seem to have a few problems with sending the whole print through to the printer and I tend to have only one or two pages of a document print out, but XP has no problems what so ever.

Overall a great printer, the ink a little on the expensive side but the quality and speed of print are very good.

Summary: Very good