Lexmark is getting out of inkjet printers

Too bad they cant compete with canon and HP. Recently got a cheap canon, nice printer so far. Had a few lexmarks a few years back and both worked fine. HP....I avoid those like HP laptops....never seen a printer with so much software and driver stuff. Had to download a driver from HP for a printer onsite, took forever!!!
 
i dont know about their upper end models, but their cheap lower ones gave me more headaches than I care to remember. Always some issue and ate ink like crazy.
 
Not sad to see them leave the field...couldn't stand their printers, hated their drives....so many would install a lexmark service that would stay in the computer even after uninstalling their software.

I'll stick with Canon 'n HP. Yeah HP's drives for consumer entry level printers have gotten bloated, but I rarely deal with those, it's usually their biz grade printers and for those...HP excels.
 
I've got an old Lexmark that I keep nursing along for personal use. It's got issues I admit, but just haven't decided what to replace the old gal with. It definitely will NOT be an HP. Just installing the software is a good solid 45 mins. but if you want all the all in one features it's a necessary evil.

I think I'm leaning toward a Brother when I make the jump, any opinions on those?
 
Peaceful said:
I've got an old Lexmark that I keep nursing along for personal use. It's got issues I admit, but just haven't decided what to replace the old gal with. It definitely will NOT be an HP. Just installing the software is a good solid 45 mins. but if you want all the all in one features it's a necessary evil.

I think I'm leaning toward a Brother when I make the jump, any opinions on those?
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I actually like Brother printers a lot, really haven't had a problem with them.

I do agree on HP printers, those are a pain. So much software!
 
I've always wanted to like Lexmark. They're a local company and a major employer in the region, and I always like to see the companies that invest in the local area do well. I hate to see all those good local jobs lost, especially in the current economy.

That said, I've never really had good luck with their consumer-level products. I currently have a Dell All-in-One (rebranded Lexmark) in the office that gives me fits. I can't print to it from linux (no driver), so I have to keep a Windows VM running with shared folders on the linux host just so I can print to it. Even then, it still falters occasionally.
 
Peaceful said:
Just installing the software is a good solid 45 mins. but if you want all the all in one features it's a necessary evil.?
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Home grade desk jets and those all in one machines...yeah (45 minutes may be an exaggeration though, unless you have some Pentium 133 with 32 megs and an old IDE 33 5,400rpm drive.

What I do though, go to their site, and download the "Corporate Driver bundle"..and use those. Full functionality, without the added fluff that you don't need.

And of course I do the same with their laserjets..which is mostly what I work with. The quality of the hardware is fantastic, long lasting. We've had so many clients that have had HP laserjet printers still working after well over 1 million pages printed..and still printing strong!

Easy for our printer tech to work on too. He works on tons of different brands of printers, and prefers HP.
 
I still remember when lexmark was king of the laser world. Some of their high-end corporate stuff is still pretty decent. For the most part, though, I don't touch them or brother. For low-end and some mid-range needs, we recommend Samsung. For most users, we go to HP. Their drivers have caused problems, but, overall, they're easier to maintain and source parts and toner. We are very careful to exclude ink-jet machines from our contracts. We usually end up supporting them anyway to appease customers, but we normally don't mess with them unless they're high-end photo machines or wide format.
 
My personal inkjet is an Epson. Yes, Epson is still around. Epson was a big name in the early days of computing, they made unkillable dot-matrix printers, and they still make printers, although you have to hunt for them because they don't have the cash that HP has to get on shelves. Frys sells them. I always had problems with the feed mechanism on HP printers, the paper goes in flat and then is fed 180 degrees to be printed on the opposite side. This always seemed to break. Epson feeds at a 90 degree angle, and prints on the same paper side as faces you.
 
I personally love their pro line, and I still recommend their pro all in ones to customers. Every single one LOVES it. My Lexmark E340 lasers, I love that thing.

Their cheap crap $40 printers, thats a different story.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Not sad to see them leave the field...couldn't stand their printers, hated their drives....so many would install a lexmark service that would stay in the computer even after uninstalling their software.

I'll stick with Canon 'n HP. Yeah HP's drives for consumer entry level printers have gotten bloated, but I rarely deal with those, it's usually their biz grade printers and for those...HP excels.
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Peaceful said:
I've got an old Lexmark that I keep nursing along for personal use. It's got issues I admit, but just haven't decided what to replace the old gal with. It definitely will NOT be an HP. Just installing the software is a good solid 45 mins. but if you want all the all in one features it's a necessary evil.

I think I'm leaning toward a Brother when I make the jump, any opinions on those?
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HP software is bloated on Windows, it really ****** me off when i setup the same HP OfficeJet AIO on my windows desktop and my Macbook Air. it wanted to install all kinds of crap on the Desktop. but it only installed one control panel on the macbook air.
 
commodore64 said:
Too bad they cant compete with canon and HP. Recently got a cheap canon, nice printer so far. Had a few lexmarks a few years back and both worked fine. HP....I avoid those like HP laptops....never seen a printer with so much software and driver stuff. Had to download a driver from HP for a printer onsite, took forever!!!
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Iam so laughing over this. I downloaded a driver from HP for their photosmart and the download was 160megs!

LOL!
 
You know, You can download the basic driver package on most HP printers. But that is still about 67Megs in size. But I wanted to ask a question about the hp print/scanners. If you just install the basic driver package in a new install of say win 7 home premium then what do you use to scan documents or prictures from the printer? I see HP has the scan function built into the larger driver package. What happens if you dont want that and just do the basic driver?

Im from linux land and I would just fire up "Simple Scan" but what do you use in win7 to scan thats not 3rd party?

thanks
 
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