Lexmark X4550 Wireless All-in-One reviews

Lexmark X4550 Wireless All-in-One Photo Printing/Scan/Copy/Print (1410600)


List Price: $129.99 Publisher: Lexmark

Our Price: Too low to display


Features:

Offers color printing, copying, and scanning
Print resolution up to 1200 x 1200 dpi black and 4800 x 1200 dpi color; speeds up to 26 ppm black and 18 ppm color
Copier can scale originals from 25% to 400%
Backed by 1-year warranty
Device measures 17.8 x 7.0 x 12.8 inches (WxHxD)
Customer Reviews:
Could be better
Pros:

Stupid simple setup, sees my home network (laptop with Vista, and desktop with XP64) through a wireless router.

Generally many good features for a low price.

Ink is much cheaper than my previous epson printer

Cons:

Scanner and fax cannot be operated through the wifi from your computer. You can send scanned images to the computer using the panel which of course makes some sense, but then you’ll have to wait a few seconds every time, to download a list of all the applications that you can send the scanned image to.

Its either wifi or USB connection. You can’t have both. If you connect the printer through a USB, wifi is turned off and your other wireless computers won’t see the printer anymore.

I printed one 6×4 color photo, and the color ink went down to 94%. I doubt thats efficient color printing.

Scanning and printing quality is not the best I’ve seen. But thats what you get for an all in one device at that price.

Verdict:

If you want a cheap all in one wireless to do your everyday office work, this device will fit your needs just fine.

If you want quality color printing and scanning, this model is not going to satisfy your needs. Go get a separate scanner and printer instead.

If you want to use the scanner through the computer, you have to connect it through the USB port and by doing so, wifi connection with any other computers will be lost. I think I’ll keep it but my feelings are mixed about it. As always, you get what you pay for.


Easy setup and operation
Great instructions for setting up the unit and its operation. No troubles integrating into WIFi network.

Installation Problems
This installed fine on my desktop computers but Lexmark’s installation setup crashed my Acer Travelmate notebook over and over with Blue Screens of Death. Lexmark’s troubleshooting faq was no help. Finally solved the problem myself by doing an uninstall followed by a Windows Restore and then doing the install in Safe mode with Networking.

The printer is kind of heavy and clunky. Place it somewhere solid, otherwise it will shake and vibrate whatever its placed on.

The Install has a lot of BLOATWARE associated with it. Do the Custom install and you can eliminate some but not all of it. No easy way to just install a driver without all the bloatware.

But it is one of the most economical wireless solutions available.


WORST PRINTER EVER… Do not waste your money

Everything that the other negative reviews say is true. Do yourself a favor and buy anything but a Lexmark Wireless printer.

1. Support is horrible. They cannot answer basic questions even on setup on multiple computers.

2. The machine appears to be low on ink and constantly gives warnings that I need to replace the cartridge. I’ve printed over 200 pages after I started getting the nasty “low ink” messages.

3. Paper jams occur at least every 15 to 20 pages. It had a tendency to feed multiple pages through. I’ve even gone to a higher grade paper, and still have the problems.

4. The scanning software is really not “user friendly” and requires that you do a basic setup every time. You need to move from the computer to the printer and back to the computer every time.

4. About one in three times, the machine will stop printing right in the middle of a document. The best luck that I have had printing documents is to print page by page.

I bought it for the wireless feature and that works about 75 percent of the time.

This is without a doubt the WORST printer that I have ever had.