Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-enabled Touchscreen

by Lexmark

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 18.3 x 15.4 inches ; 24.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 26 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002E9CAY4
• Item model number: Prestige Pro805
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless 3-in-1 with Touchscreen lets you scan, copy, and print wirelessly. This web-enabled thermal inkjet printer operates with a convenient and intuitive touchscreen. Ideal for your office or home, the device offers business-friendly features and an energy-efficient design to keep costs down.

Prestige Pro805 Wireless 3-in-1 At a Glance: 3-in-1 device scans, copies, and prints Intuitive LCD touch screen Energy Efficient features like Eco Mode and 2-sided printing Wireless, web-connected operation Keeps ink costs low Scans and reads up to 8 business cards at a time Covered by Lexmark's 5-year warranty; lifetime phone support

Lexmark's 4.3" web-enabled touchscreen helps you simplify routine tasks. View larger.

Scan up to 8 business cards simultaneously and synch with your address book software. View larger.

Intuitive LCD Touch Screen
The Lexmark Prestige Pro805 features the myTouch interface: a 4.3-inch LCD touch screen with an intuitive design that makes it easy to operate. Because the Prestige is web-connected, you can also create customized SmartSolutions to view and print web content, or create one-touch apps to simplify common tasks. Simply tap an icon to copy, scan, send an e-mail, and more.

Another benefit of the Prestige's wireless connectivity is that you'll have the flexibility to print from multiple computers, and from almost anywhere within your office or home. Using Lexmark's WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), you can sync a printer to a WPS-enabled router with the touch of a single button.

Low Ink Cost
Anyone who pays for printer ink knows that replacing printer ink or toner can be one of the most expensive office costs. With the Prestige, Lexmark has come up with an affordable solution to this common drawback. The device is capable of printing over 500 pages for as little as $4.99 (when Lexmark 105XL black ink cartridges are used). That's an average cost of one cent per page! In addition, the included individual XL cartridges give you higher yield between cartridge changes, yielding as many as three times the number of printed pages that a standard cartridge does.

Built for Productivity and Energy-Efficiency
Designed to handle office-sized printing jobs, the Prestige has a 150-page input capacity. Its 50-page automatic document feeder easily handles large printing, scanning, and copying jobs. Its automatic two-sided printing saves you time and money, while Eco Mode offers automatic two-sided printing and other energy-saving features.

The Prestige has earned an Energy Star logo by meeting strict energy-efficiency guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Scans and Imports Business Cards
The Prestige allows you to scan and save information from business cards, such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. Rather than entering the information manually, you can scan up to 8 cards at a time, syncing the information with your address book software. Using optical character recognition (OCR), the software parcels information such as first and last name, employer, address, email, and phone, and synchronizes it with many popular contact management solutions. This convenient, office-friendly feature works with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Win7 software.

Warranty
Backed by Lexmark's five-year warranty plus lifetime priority phone support, the Prestige is a printer you can purchase with peace of mind. Receive a one-year limited warranty plus four years' extended limited warranty by registering within 90 days.

What's in the Box
Lexmark Pro805 All-in-One printer; printhead; one cartridge each of black, cyan, magenta, and yellow; quick setup sheet; quick reference guide/user's guide on CD-ROM; networking guide; installation software on CD-ROM; power supply and cord; wireless setup cable for USB connection; service information; and statement of limited warranty/guarantee.

Product Description

Launch into the next generation of business productivity with the revolutionary Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless 3-in-1 with Touchscreen. The web-enabled 4.3" 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 Prestige Pro805 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. Using our WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), you can sync a printer to a WPS-enabled router wtih the touch of a single button. Included with the Prestige Pro805 are individual, high-yield XL ink cartridges with 3X the pages of standard cartridges. Individual XL inks increase your efficiency, save resources, and lower printing costs. The Prestige Pro805 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. 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 and phone 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

55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great printer marred by complex setup, March 31, 2010

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J. Golton (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

Summary: Two great features make this printer worth considering: a penny per page (black ink cost) and ease of use powered by a touchscreen and one button "smartsolutions." Unfortunately, the implementation of these features involves a lot of setup complication, both for smartsolutions and the delicate printhead/cartridge system. Most people will be better off waiting a year or two until the smartsolution ecosystem further evolves and kinks are worked out of the printhead/cartridge mechanism in some future model.

But if you need a printer before then with competitive printing/copying/scanning quality and speed, and you find these extra features attractive, you'll likely be pleased with the Pro805 - once you get past the 2-6 hours setup hassle. Though I'm annoyed at the 5 hours I spent on setup, we like the end result and will stick with the Pro805 for many years.

Details (long):

Usage: This unit is used at home with Wifi, my wife's iMac (10.4), and my Windows XP desktop and netbook. I purchased this all-in-one primarily for my wife, a part-time writer. This replaced a piece-of-junk printer that she used for drafts (which required that she email me final copies or anything long to print at my office on a laser printer).

The penny per page black ink cost is the main selling point - as a writer, my wife prints out frequent black and white drafts. She doesn't want the bulk of a laser printer and she does have an occasional need for color, copying, and scanning. Ease of use also matters, so competent paper handling and the potential of smartsolutions is attractive. It was a birthday gift - so as part of the gift I set it up, including setting up one button smartsolutions appropriate for my wife. But I thought this printer would also be nice for me, as I use Evernote and liked the idea of being able to easily scan in documents and have them show up in my Evernote or Gmail accounts. Printing at home over WiFi is also an added convenience.

Printing Quality - (Note: Most of our usage/testing is Black & White) - The printing quality on draft mode is reasonable. On highest quality mode it is very crisp - you have to look very closely to distinguish from a laser printer. We noticed some stray dots and a little streaking at first but when we selected "clean printhead" from the menu, these issued were resolved. Overall we are very pleased, though we hope we don't have to clean the printhead too often, as ink gets depleted with each cleaning.

Printing Speed - The claimed 33 page per minute printing speed is accurate using draft mode, after the first page is printed. When trying to print after many minutes of inactivity, there is a long period where the printer wakes up and gets ready to print the first page. Given these constraints, a faster way to use the printer is to print a many documents in a row. It prints less than 10 pages per minute in high quality mode, but my wife finds that acceptable.

Ease of Use - WiFi printing works flawlessly - any computer (with the Pro805 driver installed) that is connected to the router (either WiFi or Ethernet) can print. The drivers for both the Mac and Windows are easy to use and offer a vast array of options, including the ability to set up "profiles" (i.e. one profile for quick draft black/white, another for final drafts, another for photos, etc.). The Windows drivers appear to offer a wider array of printing options. The other functions of this all-in-one are also easy to use, whether you use customized one-button smartsolutions, navigate the touch screen, or use the included software on your computer. No paper jams so far and the automatic document feed worked fine in a couple of test cases.

Copying - Have not tested extensively, but Black/White is excellent, color seems pretty good.

Scanning/OCR - The quality of Black/White scanning is excellent. A 15 page scan using the automatic document feeder took just over 2 minutes. The included Abbyy FineReader 6.0 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software for Windows systems has been 100% accurate so far in converting typed or printed text into text, RTF, or searchable PDF files. To use OCR, you must have your computer turned on and connected to the same WiFi network. Macintosh OCR software is not included, requiring an extra purchase for Mac-only networks that want OCR. Color scanning works, but I don't feel qualified to comment on quality. Scans can be initiated from a computer, from the printer "scan" button, or from a smartsolution. As of March, 2010, the types of scans you can do from a smartsolution are somewhat limited, so you currently need to use the "scan" button or a computer to have access to all possible scanning options.

Email - Documents can be scanned and then emailed, with or without smartsolutions. This is a great feature. I found out the hard way that the printer hangs when attempting to send an attachment that exceeds the limit of the ISP. Comcast is the ISP set up with our Pro805, so the attachment limit is 10MB. A 600 DPI 8.5x11 JPG exceeds this limit (13MB?). And in many instances you will not know if your multi-page PDF file will exceed the limit and hang the printer. The only way to restart the printer after it hangs is to pull out the plug and put it back in.

Smartsolutions - Once set up, these one-button solutions make the printer really easy to use - even a pleasure to use. My favorite smartsolution is "Scan to Email." You can set up one "Scan to Email" to send 300DPI PDFs to your real estate agent for documents you signed and give it a custom name such as "PDF docs to agent." Then set up another "Scan to Email" which emails yourself a 150DPI JPG, etc. The user simply puts the document on the glass, then uses the touch screen to touch "smartsolutions", followed by "PDF to agent"or some other customized "Scan to Email" smartsolution.

An Evernote (a web-based notetaking app) smartsolution particularly intrigued me, but the Evernote smartsolution is basically a limited version of "Scan to Email" which gives you the Evernote Icon but subtracts the ability to have a subject or message. So I just set up a different "Scan to Email" to get things into Evernote and used a subject line with PDF scan @scans to direct the scanned file, called "PDF scan," to go to an Evernote folder called "scans."

Another good smartsolution is "Scan To PDF" which does OCR and saves the file into a specified folder on the computer with the OCR software. This results in a PDF file whose text is searchable and can be copied/pasted. It would be nice if there were similar smartsolutions that allowed scanning to TXT, RTF, and XLS files but that is not the case as of the time of this writing (4/2/10). I would also like to see a smartsolution that allows emailing TXT, RTF, searchable PDF, or XLS files with the touch of one button. Yet another nice feature would be to allow naming the subject of an email from the printer instead of automatically having the same subject name each time.

Overall, I think the smartsolutions idea is great, and is off to a nice start. So long as you have one person in a small office or family who doesn't mind going through all the setup hassles, any printer which supports smartsolutions can be set up to simplify certain complicated, multi-step functions. This will only improve over time as more smartsolutions are rolled out by Lexmark, and possibly outside developers.

Maintenance/Reliablity - My unit has been fully functioning since 3/20/10, so I can't speak to long term reliability. However, from the setup hassles I experienced (see below), it is clear that the printhead and cartridge mechanism is a point of potential failure. All the parts involved are delicate, tricky to install/uninstall, and require cleaning if dirty. Sometimes manually cleaning of the printhead and its insertion point are necessary, while other times a "clean printhead" must be performed by the printer, which depletes ink (the deep clean depletes about 1/8 of each cartridge). Lexmark has a 5 year warranty on the Pro805 so if the printhead experiences problems, they will replace it for free - but I would much prefer not having problems to begin with. I'll update this section in the future after at least a few months of use.

In 2 weeks of use (80-100 pages?), there has been no paper jam or skipped pages, and this includes testing the automatic document feeder and duplex printing. Paper handling has been perfect so far.

Setup: It took over 5 hours to completely setup this printer, and it is complicated by many factors. Configuration settings are spread out between the printer, computer, and smartsolutions website, and sometimes one change involves making a change in two or more of these locations. Here's the detailed breakdown:

1 hour: Minimum required setup for 2 computers (1 Mac, 1 Windows XP). Installing from the CD or the web site is easy enough (though, to be safe, I obtained the Mac driver from Lexmark's web site, bypassing the CD altogether). I installed XP first as I figured Windows XP would be most likely to have a smooth installation. While the software ran smoothly, there were many printer setup steps. Had I not got hung up with a manufacturing defect, it would have taken approximately 1 hour to set up the two computers, including Printer's WiFi, excluding email. Note that setting up computers after the first one is a simple driver installation - only the first is lengthy because the software directs you to set up the printer as well.

3-30 minutes: Email setup. Before you can Email, you need to configure the Pro805 with an ISP. After 20 minutes of trying a bunch of combinations and Googling for help, I gave up trying to get Gmail (Google Apps version) to work as the ISP... Read more ›

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Printer, January 10, 2010

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Robert E. Justus "xcopsc911" (Evansville, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

I purchased this printer on January 3 from Amazon.com. I have had over 20 Lexmark printers in the past and havent had any problem with any of them. However, when I hooked this one up it wouldnt print. I called Lexmark Tech and they were on the phone with me for about an hour trying to get it to print but they were unable to help me. True to their word though they shipped me a new printer overnight and I got it the next day. They even sent me the postage to mail the defective on back. I hooked up the new one and it works perfectly. Thanks Amazon for a great price and thanks Lexmark for wonderful Tech support.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars low cost ink, but sub par ink quality, March 1, 2010

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Joseph W. Perrotta (LEE CENTER, NY, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Prestige Pro805 Small Office Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer with Web-enabled Touchscreen (Office Product)

This printer install disc worked perfectly with my wireless, bottom of the line, laptop running vista. To complete the install on three computers on the wireless network took a whopping two hours and twenty minutes. But it didn't feel that long because the install went on without any glitches. It's just that it takes a long time to configure and update everything. The install disc will automatically update software and firmware.

After setup, printing over the wireless network works flawlessly and effortless from all three computers!

The 500 page black ink cartridges cost a cheap $4.99. This was what sold me to purchase this. I have a laser printer, but I wanted something for the cheap per page as well as per cartridge, and the Pro805 (or the pro905) fits the bill. Lexmark does something to disallow their other models to accept the $4.99 500 page black ink cartridge.

You can't beat a 5 year warrantee and lifetime tech support! You must register within 90 days to receive the 5 year warrantee. When you'll need the tech support is beyond me since the install disc was so thought out, but if you run into a problem you'll have the tech number to use "forever."

The only thing holding me back from a perfect rating is the black text/ink quality is sub par, at best. The bottom of a p was missing altogether, as well as the first letter in my name was "ghosted"; you could barely see any ink on the letter "J." Then again, prints came out uite crisp a lot, if not most, of the time. Also Lexmark could have disclosed better the low quality of the black ink. If it gets wet (even a little) the text will smudge. There is technology that allows this effect to be lessoned on jet ink, but they're apparently not used in their cheap $4.99 cartridges. But what do you expect for that price?

If you want a wireless, cheap per page back text printer with cheap per cartridge price, and you won't mind inconsistent text/ink quality, this is a printer you should definitely consider. If you want top of the line, (or just ALWAYS really good) text/ink quality , then you should leave this one on the shelf for someone else who is looking for the former.