Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-Enabled Touchscreen

by Lexmark

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 18.3 x 12.1 inches ; 25.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 30 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002NKMGE8
• Item model number: 90T9005
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #64 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Office Electronics Accessories > Printer Supplies
  • #77 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Printers > All-In-One Printers > Inkjet All-In-One Printers
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 2, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With included XL print cartridges that let you print 500 pages for as little as $4.99, the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless 4-in-1 with Web-enabled touchscreen goes way beyond printing with a Web-connected touch screen, fax, and one-touch apps. Designed to simplify all your printing, scanning, faxing, and copying needs, the Platinum Pro905 provides advanced connectivity, paper handling capabilities, and Web enablement for a complete document management solution that can give your business a real boost.

Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless 4-in-1 with Web-enabled Touchscreen At a glance: Print 500 pages for as little as $4.99 4.3-inch myTouch LCD touchscreen with SmartSolutions technology automates everyday tasks WiFi-n and Ethernet compatibility for fast, reliable connectivity 2 paper trays for simultaneous loading and printing flexibility 50-page automatic document feeder Automatic two-sided printing 5-year warranty (with registration)

Winner of the Better Buys for Business 2010 Editor's Choice Award. View larger.

High-quality scans at resolutions of up to 1200 x 4800 DPI. View larger.

With myTouch, you can scan, copy, email, or fax at the touch of a button.

Lowest Black Ink Cost--$4.99 Per Cartridge
The Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless 4-in-1 takes 105XL black ink cartridges, which boast the world's lowest black ink cost anywhere--just one cent per page, or 500 pages for as little as $4.99¹. And because XL cartridges provide more yield between changes, you'll get more done in less time.

Productivity, Reliability, and Convenience
Winner of the Better Buys for Business 2010 Editor's Choice Award, the Platinum Pro905 delivers advanced solutions to meet all your business needs.

View Web-based applications and enjoy bright, colorful images and easy-to-read text on the 4.3-inch touchscreen. Read the news, view your favorite photo sharing sites, and get the weather report before you step outside--all directly from your printer.

Create one-touch, custom SmartSolutions shortcuts for operations that you use often, such as scanning a document to e-mail, accessing personalized content like weather and photos from the Internet, and printing your Google Calendar. Finally, experience WiFi-n with greater range and faster transfer speeds than WiFi-g, and trust WiFi Protected Setup to maintain easier and more secure connections².

Built-In Efficiency Saves Time and Money
Spend more time managing success and less time managing the paper supply thanks to the Platinum Pro905's 300-page input capacity and 50-page automatic document feeder. Two paper trays allow for simultaneous loading of multiple paper types while providing printing flexibility. And one-touch automatic two-sided printing³ reduces paper usage by up to 50-percent to save you money.

Print, Scan, Fax, and Copy with One Device
The Platinum Pro905 All-in-One lets you print, scan, fax, and copy, all at fast speeds and with high-quality results. The device features thermal inkjet technology to provide outstanding printing resolution of up to 2400 x 1200 DPI (black) and 4800 x 1200 DPI (color), with speeds up to 33 PPM (black) and 30 PPM (color)⁴.

The flatbed scanner provides an optical scanning resolution of 1200 x 4800 DPI for high-quality scans, and it can scan pages as large as 8.5 x 14 inches in size.

Copy speeds are equally impressive--25 CPM (black) and 21 CPM (color)--and it's a snap to reduce/enlarge originals from 25-percent to 400-percent. Faxes are transmitted at speeds of up to 33.6 Kbps.

Scan and Import Business Cards
Stay organized and keep in touch with all your contacts thanks to advanced technology that allows you to easily scan and save information from business cards, such as name, address, and phone number. Rather than entering the information manually, you can scan up to eight cards at a time and sync them with your address book software. That's real time saved.

Go Green Automatically
The Platinum Pro905 is Energy Star qualified, which means it meets rigorous requirements for energy set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. And because it uses less energy, it can help lower your utility bills so you save money.

To save up to 50-percent on paper and 8-percent on energy costs, this unit also offers automatic two-sided printing and an eco mode that's accessible with one touch.

Warranty Information
The Platinum Pro905 is backed by an industry best five-year warranty (registration within 90 days required).

What's in the Box
Lexmark Platinum Pro905; print head; one each black, cyan, magenta, and yellow ink cartridges; quick setup sheet; installation software on CD-ROM; quick reference guide; fax guide; networking guide; power supply and cord; USB cable; RJ11 phone cable or adapter; service information; and warranty card.

¹ Based on 105XL black ink cartridge's $4.99 MSRP in US dollars and a yield of 510 standard pages, estimated in accordance with ISO.IEC 24711. Actual yields may vary. Actual cost in other countries may vary. "Lowest cost" claim based on comparison with other inkjet all-in-ones as of June 1, 2009.
² Subject to the range of your wireless router and access to electricity. When used with a WiFi enabled router. Compatible with Wireless certified IEEE802.11b/g/n.
³ Must be enabled in software for Mac users.
⁴ Printing in draft mode and excluding time to first page print. Visit www.lexmark.com for details.

Pro-Series Printers for the Professional Office	Prospect Pro205	Prevail Pro705	Pinnacle Pro901	Platinum Pro905
Functionality	4-in-1	4-in-1	4-in-1	4-in-1
Lowest Black Ink Cost (500 pages for $4.99)
Wireless Printing	Wireless-N	Wireless-N & Ethernet	Wireless-N & Ethernet	Wireless-N & Ethernet
Display	2.4-inch Color LCD display	2.4-inch Color LCD display	4.3-inch LCD w/ myTouch	4.3-inch LCD w/ myTouch
Auto 2-Sided Printing
ADF	35-page	50-page	50-page	50-page
1-touch Customizable Apps
Eco-Mode

Product Description

Experience new levels of business productivity with the revolutionary Lexmark Platinum Pro905 All-in-One with Fax. The web-enabled 4.3 in. myTouch interface improves efficiency by allowing you to create one-touch, custom SmartSolutions for automating repetitive tasks. The myTouch interface also allows you to connect to the web without the need for a computer. Tap an icon to copy, scan, send an e-mail and more. Get the news, view your favorite photo sharing sites, and discover the weather before you step outside, directly from your printer. It’s more than a printer, it links you to your world. The Platinum Pro905 also offers the freedom to print from virtually anywhere within the building and the flexibility to print from multiple computers with Wifi-n and Ethernet compatibility. Also included are individual, high-yield XL ink cartridges, with 3X the pages of standard cartridges. Individual XL inks allow you to increase your efficiency, save resources, and lower printing costs. The Platinum Pro905 ships with a special 105XL black ink cartridge, which provides one cent black and white prints, which is a lower cost per page than many laser products. You also have the benefit of Eco Mode, which offers automatic 2-sided printing and energy saving features. An extra 150 page tray is included to reduce intervention and manage multiple media types, while the 50 page automatic document feeder easily handles large printing, scanning, copying and faxing jobs. This robust All-in-One also ships with Business Card Scanning software which lets you scan up to eight cards at once. Using optical character recognition (OCR), the software parcels information such as first and last name, employer, address, email address and phone number and synchronizes it with many popular contact management solutions. All of this functionality is backed by an industry leading 5-year warranty and lifetime, priority phone support

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Impressive and easy to setup BUT, February 20, 2010

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ED "zebra01" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-Enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

I am very impressed with all aspects of this printer. Wireless was very easy and the software installed well in Win 7-64 Ultimate on as Dell workstation. All of my features worked quite well. Very good print speed and quality. The cost per page is a bargain and the lowest of all current machines. All worked perfectly _ if there are problems I will post them.

I am amazed at all the complaints as I use all the features with no problems. I even scan to email to pdf and jpeg's and had no trouble setting up the server id. I am no fan of Lex as I owned a printer with high consumables 15 years ago. It took me that long to try a Lex again.

The feature set just amazed me. All my set-ups went well. I am a very experienced user. I have both wireless and usb conected. This is an allowed config. I use both for different print prefs.

It even has apps just like the iphone that allow one to add and customize the printer menus.

I am a 30 year+ user of PC's Printers like this one are still complicated to install for many customers and the earlier firmware and drivers may not have been to par at the launch of this product. As of 3/19 all continues perfect - very cheap to use.

PrintHead failed at 11 months. They are very hard to get. Lexmark makes you call - can not order online and then it goes on backorder.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value, November 14, 2009

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R. Coward "rcoward" (Steinhatchee, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-Enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

This printer replaced a Lexmark wireless that we bought about 18 months ago. This one was more expensive but worth every penny. It was relatively easy to set up. In addition to our desk top pc I have a macbook. I did have to get assistance from customers service to get the macbook to print but that didn't take long. I could not be more pleased this this Lexmark model.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don"t buy it per advertizing, November 28, 2010

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D. Hudgens - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Business Class Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-Enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

I purchased the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 because of the advertised warranty and ink cost / savings. Very disappointed with both the warranty and ink usage.

I received the printer from Amazon around the middle of August 2010. I connected it to my home network without a problem and the interface to operate it was easy to understand. I was very pleased with the printer at this time.

Around October 29,2010 I contacted Lexmark help line because I was out of Cyan ink and two of the other cartridge appeared low to me.

I thought we only printed about 30 or 40 pages since purchase, but after about 2 hours on the help line (he networked into my pc to check the printer out) I was told that we printed 119 pages per the self test page. Which still did not explain all the ink use. Also while looking at the self test page I noticed the print head information indicated ink usage as 1% black used, 1% yellow used, 2% Cyan used, and 1% Magenta used. It also showed that 74 pages were printed. I brought this to the attention of the support staff person and he could not explain the difference.

Support decided to send me a cyan cartridge, have me install it and call back to see it they could repair the issue then. For some reason he could not get the printer to do what he was trying to do. He said that if that solved the issue then he would send me the other three cartridges. If it did not solve the problem he was going to send me another print head. I had no problem at this point. At least they appeared to be standing behind their product. He was going to rush the ink cartridge (3 to 5 days)

Two week later I for called again for the cartridge that had not been delivered yet. I received it 3 days later.

After receiving I installed and called the help line for them to check the printer again. Completely different story now. They would send me the other three cartridges one time and nothing is wrong with the printer. I explained that I purchased the Lexmark because of the warranty and the low cost of ink that they advertised and I was not happy with either right now. I was informed that I had the printer over 30 days now and I was stuck with the printer. I told them that I replace a HP Photosmart for their printer due to ink cost and the Lexmark did not print as sharp as the HP and it was costing me more for the Lexmark ink at this rate than HP. I was told she was very sorry but she could not do anything for me.

I told her that I felt the ink advertisement and warranty they advertised was false and I would let anyone I met know not to purchase a Lexmark product.

If you managed to get a Lexmark that works as advertised, good for you. If you do not have a lexmark, do not purchase one.

I called Amazon help line and as usual they surpassed any expectation I had after explaining my problem.

You can not go wrong purchasing anything from Amazon.

Do not purchase a Lexmark printer ever.

By the way. I connected my HP Photosmart back up and it is working like a charm. I just hate the price of ink.