Customer Reviews

Lexmark 12A1990 Photo Inkjet Cartridge

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This cartridge works great with my Z31 (unfortunately not for my Z11, according to the Lexmark website). Yields great color for my photo prints!

I have a Lexmark Z22. I use the photo cartridge, along with the HP Premuim Plus paper (not the premium -- the premium PLUS), and I get fantastic results. Mind you, I'm not doing digital photography for sale; I'm printing baby pictures for framing and making memory books, but I'm really surprised. The quality is as good as what you get from WebShots, and I have the added advantage of being able to crop and edit at-will with Photoshop. Plus, you don't have the nonsense of trying to load all of the pages up onto the Web. I'm very satisfied, and I admit, really pleasantly surprised.

If you like to print pictures you better have this cartridge. I printed some pictures with the regular cartridges that came with my Lexmark Z52 and they came out alright but skin tones didn't come out all that great. When I got this cartridge my pictures came out so good you couldn't tell the difference between them and a real print. The cartridge is kind of expensive when printing pictures it sometimes will be gone with 20 prints. But its no doubt worth it compared to actually paying for developing pictures.

Not the seller's fault, because it says on the side of the Lexmark box that this cartridge fits the Z715 printer. It will not snap into the printer's retaining tab due to the shape of the top of the cartridge.


After contacting Lexmark about this issue, I learned that you must remove the BLACK cartridge and put this one in its place. No instructions came with the cartridge and I would never have thought of doing that in a million years. It DOES snap into the black ink cartridge carriage on the Z715 and prints beautifully.

This is a great value if you don't need colored ink for standard documents.It's still a very sharp image and costs a few bucks less than the color cartridge.I highly reccomend this to anyone.