Lexmark Z1300

Pros: Small, high quality, inexpensive, light.

Cons: Ink is expensive.

The Bottom Line: I recommend this printer to anyone who needs a basic, transportable and good-quality printer.

Review: I purchased this printer a few months ago for about $25 just as a small, simple, lightweight one to take out to California for a few months for basic printing. It turns out it does a lot more thank low-quality, basic printing. As a photographer, I ...

Pros: Inexpensive, decent copies, easy to use, compact.

Cons: Slower than more expensive models.

The Bottom Line: I would highly recommend the Lexmark Z1300 as an inexpensive, easy to use, compact printer.

Review: My old printer was in storage, and I needed something cheap that I could print with intermittently. While visiting Wal-Mart, I saw this printer on sale for twenty-five dollars. For that price, I figured I couldn't pass this printer up. I normally ...

Pros: Cost, ease of use, top paper loading.

Cons: Installs bloat-ware driver. Needs a black cartridge and USB 2 cable.

The Bottom Line: Good, performs like I wanted it to.

Review: I bought this printer to replace my broken HP DeskJet 3520. The Lexmark Z1300 has worked well so far without all the paper jams, error messages, running processes and computer hangups I got with the DeskJet. The install was relatively easy on Windows ...

Pros: Price, quality, speed above average

Cons: quantity, software

The Bottom Line: Short term printer, would not recommend for long term use

Review: The Lexmark Z1300 Inkjet Printer is very attractive because of price, and quality, however, the downfalls are fairly every mentioned when comparing qualities versus quantities. The good things about this printer is great in number when you look at the ...

Pros: price

Cons: no black cartridge - lots of hoops to jump through if you do ink refills

The Bottom Line: Would recommend for those who print occasional letter, report etc.

Review: And inexpensive printer giving good quality and speed, the Z1300 does have some drawbacks. First is the fact that it does not come with a black print cartridge. You will have to buy a black cartridge, and here's the first thing to be careful about. If ...

Pros: Cheap. Prints fast. Quality print for price.

Cons: Cost of ink cartridges.

Review: Solution to the problem previously posted by Happypappyx is: You may have to change the communication format called the "Spool format." Please follow the steps given below to change the spool data format: 1. Click on "Start," "Control Panel," ...

Pros: Cheap. Reasonable print quality and speed for price.

Cons: Print quality could be better. Problem in quick print mode.

Review: Overall-good value for $26. Accepts black and color ink cartridges (comes only with color). Accepts high yield ink cartridges for lower cost printing per page. Reasonably fast for text and graphics at this price point. Print quality could be ...

Pros: Nary a one.

Cons: Trickery in low pricing. Poorly designed. Doesn't work properly. Just generally terrible.

The Bottom Line: If you want aggravation and frustration X 10, this is the printer for you. Otherwise, avoid it like the plague that it is.

Review: I have never had so much trouble, or so much frustration, with any printer (or other computer hardware) that I have EVER owned. Ever. The cost is low. BUT it was one of the worst $30 I've spent. Seriously. First, you get a bit ripped off. $30 sounds ...