Lexmark Z53

I bought the Lexmark Z53 a couple of years ago due to its very low price and great specs. Unfortunatly, I cannot say it was a bargin. This printer uses up ink as if there is no tomorow. Even on the lowest quality printing, a standard ink cartridge is used up before you know it and the ink cartridges are by no means cheap. In terms of quality, the photo's seemed alright, but not great. The included software is also very limited and the drivers would conflict with the drivers of my sound card (sounds wierd but it is true). The printing speed is ok though. Considering the above, I cannot recomend this printer to anybody. There are many more printers on the market ...

I bought the Lexmark very impressed by the specs and price. I was to regret that decision as soon as I returned home. I was supplied with two driver discs with no idea from the paperwork which was to be installed first or if only one should be used. However, neither of them worked. I tried everything I could think of to get the drivers installed completely but couldn't. I never did manage to network the printer (between only two PC's). I had two highly qualified PC engineers look at the PC and printer software and they actually uninstalled almost everything off my PC one by one to see if there was a software conflict and couldn't locate ...

There is an opinion that if something is cheaper than the competition then it must be rubbish. After all you get what you pay for. The Lexmark Z53 blows that opinion away completely. I wanted a new photo quality printer to replace my Epson Stylus 900. I like the 'straight-paper-path' approach of the Epson but found the speed didn't live up to expectation. Enter the Lexmark. How about a full colour high resolution A4 photograph printed in less than 10 minutes (it would have been quicker but my PC is past its sell by date). Setting up the Lexmark was so easy my 6 year old daughter could have done it. Text quality is also ...