Customer Reviews

Lexmark Z13 Color Jetprinter (16E0058)

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... It works great! If you just need a basic color printer for your home office, this is perfect. The quality is sufficent for cover letters and resumes. Be aware that it requires a USB connection.

i got this printer as a gift, and i'm sure it didn't cost very much. first off, although the printer's cheap, the replacement ink cartridges each cost about $30. i've had it for about six months w/ only occasional use and i already need a new ink cartridge. it also messes up the colors, sometimes printing only in yellow, sometimes only red, and sometimes only blue or green. i read something about having to clean the cartridge, which i guess i'll look into, but the fact is the printer itself really doesn't work very well. the "auto sheet feeder" is supposed to load multiple sheets for you, but on my printer it just didn't work and would cause it to jam, so i had to load each individual page which was definitely annoying. also, it had this weird bug where sometimes it would print the first few lines of the text and then skip to the middle of the page and resume printing for no apparent reason. i'm a computer programmer so i know shoddy workmanship when i see it. avoid this one.

My Z13 just died this month, aged about 5 years (3 of relatively frequent use, 2 of mostly sitting on the shelf).

While I appreciate the relatively long life, this would not have been a printer I'd have bought for myself: it came with the wife before my marriage :), and I had it thrown out without much sorrow.

The good things: works with Mac and PC, relatively easy setup, once you learn to load the pages just right you can print on both sides. Small footprint.

The bad: color printing basically makes no sense on this printer, unless you enjoy the various shades of the rainbow coming out unexpectedly. BW printing is too expensive as $30 per cartridge is the usual price for not too many pages. If you do not use the printer heavily, the ink basically dries out, and your $30 goes to waste. Plastic paper guides eventually fell off.

All in all, this printer is classic case where you buy something cheaply and pay for it later.

My college dorm owns this printer, as does a friend of mine. This model is an absolute abomination; it eats ink, and even when the cartridges are fresh, the quality is poor. I wouldn't pay $5 for one of these things. Most of the time, there are white lines running through the text where the printer has simply failed to print. Cartridges have to be replaced with alarming frequency, and they are, like most inkjet cartridges, expensive. This printer is so unreliable you're better off without a printer than with this one.