Lexmark C500N Color Printer (White)

List Price: $499.00 Discount Price: $211.27

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Customer Reviews:

I'd give it zero stars if that was an option [Posted on 2007-03-30]
I've only had this printer 6 days and am considering putting it out with the garbage. I tried printing on the recommended photo paper and it puts black lines down the back of the paper. It also does not accept card stock very well. Lexmark support (misnomer) first said that it was a defective black cartridge then later said that the printer does not accept the type of paper I was using. Either way I'm dumping this sucker and going back to the HP. I'd advise anyone who wants to use other than just regular bond paper to not waster their money on this printer. Unfortunately I bought it at CompUSA brand new but can not return it because they're going out of business. An expensive lesson but I did learn. Bottom line, this printer is a hunk of junk!!!

Never will work with Vista [Posted on 2007-06-10]
Lexmark still makes this printer, but does not seem to be motivated to make a driver for it that is compatible with Vista. Pretty stupid, if you ask me. If you have Vista, then DO NOT buy this printer. It is essentially a dead paper weight without Windows XP or a PPC Mac.

What makes it even worse is that NO DRIVERS will get it to print in Vista. Don't bother trying to find a "close enough" or "compatible" Lexmark driver for it, none exists. It turns out this is an "unintelligent" printer, which means all of the page processing is done on the computer's side, in the driver, and then the resulting image of the page is dumped to the printer, which is why this printer is so cheap.

As a network printer it's pretty limited due to its limited compatibility. If you have a home-office and Windows XP, then it's a good value. It isn't worth it otherwise.

Works well on Mac OS X networks [Posted on 2007-09-12]
I bought this printer when it was on sale and included a rebate. We were using a Brother MFC8300 for years prior to this while waiting for the day when color laser printers became affordable for the small home office.
That day came and we have been VERY pleased with the quality and reliability of this printer.
We have a Qwest Actiontec DSL modem hooked up to our Airport Extreme Base Station 802.11g WAN port.
I plugged the printer into the base station's ethernet LAN port.
We downloaded the latest drivers from Lexmark to our 3 Macs, Powermac G4 10.4, MacBook Core2Duo 10.4 and iBook G3 10.3 and used the Printer Setup Utility to ready the printer.
All computers saw the device and setup was flawless. They have all printed to it without any issues.
We are very please with our purchase.

Mm... not quite.... [Posted on 2008-01-12]
No Postscript support! So no printing under OSX or Linux without jumping through some serious hoops.
Colors are REALLY funky. Images are not even close to being accurate.

Other than that. It's a great printer for someone just looking to replace a monochrome printer and who only print under Windows. If you have the space for this monster. BTW the support Lexmark claims for OSX and Linux is a straight up lie. They support OSX 10.2, will not work with 10.3-10.5+ and no Linux support at all.

Don't waste your money [Posted on 2008-08-03]
I purchased the Lexmark C500 in the hopes that it would print a variety of things -- typical word documents, spreadsheets, and invitations to my wedding (cardstock, envelopes, and address labels). The printer has failed in EVERY single application. It eats and melts envelopes, prints curled paper (the fuser unit gets extremely hot), and ink is splotchy and streaky in every font. Even simple PDF files come out with imperfections in the text, and the paper is wrinkly. The printer is loud and gives off a lot of heat. We are going to have to buy another printer, and I will NEVER buy a Lexmark again. I have since learned of others who have had problems with other Lexmark printers as well, which makes me think this is not a fluke. Even though this printer is rated "very good" at CNET, it's a piece of junk. Don't waste your money, and go buy a printer that works.

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