Summary: Gave one to my student in college. A+++++
Comment: After 2 years, my daughters old Epson 7xx series printer crapped out.... I gave her this Lexmark x1150 from Christmas to take back to college and it's so good, 5 or 6 of her friends bought one.
I bought it because at college they didn't need a perfect print and figured the trade off for scanning photos and a one or two page copy for a friend in need of notes was a good trade off.
To my surprize, except for the big laser print at work, it out prints any home printer I've seen. I bought another one for home!! My Epson 740 is now a paper weight..
Customer Rating:
Summary: finally
Comment: I purchased this printer on sale for under$70 and I should have bought one more for my kids. Quiet, Quality, Quick........The 3 Q's needed of a printer. The Fax/Scanner is icing on the cake. As for the cost of the ink......I have yet to find a printer with cartridges that ARE inexpensive. At least this one doesn't seem to suck ink even when turned off! I had a Canon that did that. Money well spent on this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Lexmark All In One 1150
Comment: The Lexmark was given to me as a gift, and it is the best gift I have received. I have used it for a year and have had NO problems. I am an older person, and had difficulty learning to use the computer a few years ago. I dreaded to try learning the printer, but it was simple and easy. The scanner and printer are both much easier than what I had used before. The cartridges are expensive, but they seem to last much longer than my previous ones. I have no complaints, only praise for this wonderful printer/scanner/copier. I think the price is a bargain !!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: So far so good! Very impressed
Comment: I purchased this 3-in-1 printer at Walmart and it has met my expectations.
Just remember to buy an A-Plug/B-Plug USB cable.
Here are several Pros and Cons:
Pros-
1). It's very easy to use. No documention is required.
Just follow the SIMPLE install instructions (plug in printer power and USB cables, start up install software, and so forth) and you'll be ready to go in about 5 minutes tops.
2). Quite powerful for the price. I was expecting bottom of the barrel scanning, printing, and copy capabilities but it has met and exceeded my expectations.
You can expect slightly less than Laser Printer quality at the fast print mode!!
3). Did I mention it was easy to use? I was making photocopies of documents within 30 min of installing the printer.
4). The printer itself is aesthetically pleasing and everything (compartments, panels, etc...) are intuitive and easy to manipulate
Cons-
1). For MOST people, printer cartridge prices are the biggest gripe. Am I right? $28 for a 10mL black cartridge or $28 for a color cartridge.
Well for us diehard printer people, we use refill kits and bulk ink. It really cuts down on price. ANYONE here that is complaining about ink costs should consider refill kits and bulk ink - and if ink cost is the PRIMARY reason you gave this printer or any printer sub-standard marks, then you're a novice when it comes to printers.
I pretty much pay about $5 or less for each refill on this printer and my HP Deskjet 3650 (I mention the 3650 because it uses 10mL cartridges but HP only charges $10 for a new one).
Set your printer to print using Fast Print/Draft so it saves ink - you will get near-Laser quality anyhow.
Con #2) For some reason if you use Windows 98 SE and try to install this printer as a networked printer (shared from a XP Pro host), you have to pick a driver and if you use the CD, it runs the install program only to ask you to connect the printer to the 98 SE Machine. This, to me, is a major drawback.
For my HP Deskjet 3650, I was sharing it on the entire LAN at home w/o anyone asking for "special drivers" or to run an entire install process.
HOWEVER, I did not run into any problems sharing this printer across the LAN using all XP Pro machines. 98 SE is obsolete in any case, so I won't let this drawback drop my overall rating for this printer.
Con 3):
Scanner size
The flatbed scanner is a big plus - but it maxes out with letter sized paper. My Epson Perfection is larger and can scan longer documents, but in all seriousness the X1150's scanning size is adequate for MOST SOHO ops (Small Office or Home Office Operations) ... however I would have felt more comfortable with a larger scanner.
Bottom Line:
You get a modern inkjet printer, decent scanner, and a copy machine for under a hundred bux. It can't get any better than this!
Out of 5 stars I give it 4.5
I would give it 5 except I didn't like the idea of buying a separate USB cable - I mean printer companies can probably buy these in BULK, costing them pennies in the end.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A disappointment over and over again
Comment: I bought this and loved it at first. Then one day it just stopped working. It was stuck in a frozen state. So I called tech support and they replaced my machine. This one had the same problem when I took it out of the box! So now we moved onto the third machine, which seemed to work at first to my relief. One week later, the same problem again! This time, instead of wasting my time and patience, I just put it in the trash and now I'm shopping for a new brand. Beware; there is something wrong with this model. It's a great design but obviously it hasn't been perfected yet.
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