Lexmark Inkjet Printer (Z1420)

List Price: $87.99 Discount Price: Too low to display

Features:

• Built-in 802.11g wireless printing. Compatible with 802.11b
• High quality printing from virtually anywhere in the home over a secure wireless network
• Share the Lexmark Z1420 wirelessly among multiple computers
• Easy guided setup with Lexmark installation software
• Connect with 802.11 b/g wireless network and wireless computer or with USB cable

Customer Reviews:

Does what it says [Posted on 2008-04-02]
Real easy to install. Hooked up to both my pcs in less than 1 hour. Simplistic, not many bells and whistles, but prints wirelessly. That's why I gave it 5 stars - it does what it's supposed to.

Excellent for the price and application [Posted on 2008-04-14]
After attempting to hang a USB printer on an Apple Time Capsule to absolutely no avail, (I still don't know if it is a TC problem, an incompatible printer problem, or cockpit error), I decided to solve my wireless printing requirement with the Z1420. What a good decision!

This cool little printer practically installed itself, (more on that later), and my wife and I were each printing from our MacBooks in no time.

I haven't tested the photo print quality yet, but that was not the reason I bought it. It is supposed to be adequate, and that will be a nice bonus. As for printing receipts, internet payment vouchers, order confirmations, recipes, et cetera, it is perfect.

Mine arrived from an Amazon vendor with only a Windows install disk. The instructions referenced an OSX disc, but it was missing. I knew the drivers were available from Lexmark via a download, so I was not too dismayed. In reality, it turned out to be a blessing, since the written documentation outlined a multi-step manual set up procedure, kind of daunting on first read, whereas the download included a series of "click-and-continue" set-up screens that were extremely easy to negotiate.

All in all, I am very pleased with both the printer and the vendor.

A work in progress [Posted on 2008-04-24]
I am still figuring out the intricacies of this printer. I bought it and screwed around with it a little too much at first. I had to call India and get tech support to set up the wireless on my Mac. So I got it working wirelessly with my Mac, but my two PC's only want to connect to the printer via USB cable. This was an okay setup until the wireless decided to be flaky with my Mac. I'm not sure if it's something that I'm doing, or it's the printer fault, or my Mac's fault, but something is not adding up at the moment. Right now I am printing my final essays and papers from my Mac via USB. Go figure...

Brilliantly simple [Posted on 2008-05-02]
Got this as I needed to print from both my laptop and desktop and it is perfect. Within 20 minutes I had it setup on my wireless network and installed on both computers.

The black ink usage is a little high I guess, but for the price it does what it says. I haven't tried the colour printing of photos, but that's not why I got this and I would buy a proper photo printer if quality were that important.

waste of time [Posted on 2008-05-08]
WiFi didn't work. Printing quality was terrible. Build quality was very low. Sent it back, not buying another.

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