Customer Reviews

Lexmark P6250 Photo All-in-One (21B0000)

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First of all, The P6250 printer may come in boxed with or without the USB cable. The model 21B0000 does not include the cable. Model 21B0281 includes it. For those of you planning to purchase the printer with no cable it will be good to know that a standard USB cable will work just fine with the printer, I tell you from actual experience since I accidentally purchased the model with no cable. Make sure to grab a USB 2.0 compatible (or better) cable.

This printer uses two ink cartridges simultaneously. The factory-installed cartridges are Photo (#31) and Color (#33). You can optionally purchase a Black cartridge (#32 or #34) to replace the photo cartridge. The color ink cartridge must always be there. Lexmark also has a high yield color cartridge (#35) that provides a higher quality image from the printer. If you don't do much photo printing I recommend purchasing and using a black cartridge when not printing digital photos. Is not that that the photo cartridge is limited for pictures only, but with the black cartridge you obtain a faster output rate for other types of documents, and you save on precious photo ink. There is a cartridge storage area inside the printer where you can conveniently place your extra ink cartridge. The printer's front panel displays the ink levels as they get quickly drained. You should purchase your replacement cartridges from a store that sells two-pack ink bundles. Heavy printing could result in a very high total cost of ownership.

I mostly use the P6250 for normal printing, copying and sometimes for scanning. You can make color or b&w copies and there is no need to interact with the computer for simple photocopies. I have not tested the faxing capabilities of this printer.

For photo printing, a few sample copies of photo paper are included. The output is colorful and sharp. Photos may be printed from your computer's hard drive or from a memory card connected directly to the printer's front panel. The front panel supports Compact Flash Type I/II, SmartMedia, Microdrive, Memory Sticks, Secure Digital (SD), Multimedia and xD cards. Inserting a memory card on your printer initiates the Fast Pics software from Lexmark where you can adjust your pictures and print them later.

The printer includes the All in One software from Lexmark. With this user-friendly software you can manage all the printer features such as Scanning, Printing, Photo Editing, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), Faxing and Photocopying. There are also troubleshooting options in case your printer starts misbehaving.

This printer was the perfect choice for me, it should be ideal for any home user. However, you should know that this family of printers, as with any inkjet family is not designed for heavy, commercial-like use.

I hope that my review helps with your purchase decision.

A fantastic piece of junk. I read a CNET review on this product where the user complained that installing the Lexmark s/w created boot problems with XP. I thought that rather odd, until I noticed them myself. First off, the software took a good 20 minutes to install on my relatively fast PC. Then, when I attempted to reboot my computer, all I saw was a black screen with a cursor waiting. I couldn't even get into the BIOS to boot in normal mode. Luckiily, I'd read that the user unplugged the USB cable and was able to boot after that. Once I unplugged the USB cable, I was able to boot. Needless to say, I'm currently uninstalling all things Lexmark right now. Not-so-happy Camper. A fantastic piece of junk!

This printer far exceeded my expectations, excellent with photos on glossy and matte finish, fast with text, prints on all my different types of paper with no problem. The standalone printing is easy to navigate and I find the image preview in copy mode extremely helpful. I bought this based on a recommendation and the cartridges being less expensive than HP and I would recommend this printer to anyone thinking of getting one.

This printer is pretty good I guess. But its slow and when is time to buy ink, you will be asking your self.... "Why did I buy this printer". Trust me, there are better choices out there.

I bought this printer a while ago and it always gave me problems. First it wouldn't work at all with our desktop computer. I would have to disconnect the USB cable until the computer was absolutely ready to print. When I got my laptop, I connected it to the printer thinking all my problems would go away.
No, instead they just get worse. It eats paper all the time. It won't scan anything anymore and its taking all my strength not to throw it out my window. Please don't waste any of your time or money on this piece of junk. Go with a better brand all together.

I'd bought this printer to replace a Hewlett-Packard copy/fax/print/scanner all-in-one whose scrolling mechanism had broken after merely a year. Little did I know what I was in for. This Lexmark quickly surpassed the Hewlett-Packard, hands down, as the worst printer I've ever used.

The scrolling works only about 25 per cent of the time. I've tried glossy photo paper, matte-finish paper, a single sheet of normal printer paper, and a full stack. None of the above would scroll into the machine with 100 per cent consistency. I can't tell you how annoying it is to watch the paper feed jerk, wiggle, then refuse to enter into the printer.

This results in having to resend the job over and over, dealing with the print manager...and triple the amount of time it *should* take to print almost anything. And when this Lexmark freezes up, forget about correcting the problem and resuming the job -- not only is it unable to pick up a job midway, it sends the print manager into a tailspin, forcing you to delete the job, cancel everything on the printer itself, and then resend the job. And if you leave this printer on and plugged into your computer (as I do -- as all printers are supposed to be), it will sometimes go into a kind of "safe" or "frozen" mode where all onboard controls (including the power switch) cease to function, the computer can't communicate with it, and the only way to get it out of the annoying "Lexmark" logo screen is to unplug the power cable and replug it. What is this, The Flintstones?

This machine's performance has gotten me so peeved that I've actively tried to avoid doing any print jobs in the last two months. And when printing something as simple as a Fellowes CD-label sheet, the machine's accuracy is horrendous. A CD design done in Photoshop, which had printed perfectly fine on the Hewlett-Packard, suddenly became decentered, and each printed sheet is screwed up in a different way, which means it isn't the file that's wrong, but the printer.

These all-in-ones are supposed to be designed for photos. What exactly is this Lexmark good for, when it won't even print a simple e-mail from Internet Explorer, a one-page document from Microsoft Word, or a bare-bones Photoshop design? I'm sending this back to Lexmark with a tongue lashing.

It is pretty noisy. When printing, it shakes like a wet dog. It keeps forcing me to press the select button when I'm low on ink, for each and every print job. The quality is good (when there's lots of ink), but it prints VERY SLOWLY (about 10 ppm in b&w, and 3-4 ppm in color).

And I can't save the software to a folder I want. It has to choose, and then it copies its files to a separate directory. If I delete either one, it refuses to work. Then I have to reinstall the drivers.

This cost me $159 brand new. I have to buy new cartridges every month and it's costing me around $1000 a year, JUST FOR INK!

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I want to lower the rating to 2 stars, but it won't let me.

We bought this thing new at Staples. Installed it and it would not work on our computer. I asked our IT guy at work about this problem and he told me the first problem is Lexmarks are junk. The second problem is they don't always work on every kind of computer, Compaqs are the most problematic. We have a Compaq...great.

Well we bought a new computer 3 months later excited to have a printer again. It worked fine for a couple weeks then the black cartridge needed replacing. So I bought a genuine Lexmark number 34 and the printer won't recognize it. I thought the cartridge was to blame so I returned it and got a new one...same thing.Tech support can't fix it and other people have the same problem. They blame it on dirty connections but they know what's going on...it is a glitch they don't want to admit responsibility for.

How hard is it for a printer company to make their own cartridges work with their own printers? I guess pretty hard for Lexmark. Take my advice,...stay away from this thing. I am stuck with a $169 dollar piece of junk + $38 bucks for the cartridge. I am not happy and will NEVER buy another Lexmark as long as I live...

I got this as a gift and am very happy with it! I use it everyday and it prints clearly and quickly. The scanner, copier and photo printer work extremely well. I would definately recommend to anyone looking for a high end printer.