Lexmark Z23 Color Printer

by Lexmark

Product Details

Product Manual [948kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 17.5 x 5.1 inches ; 5.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005IA5U
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Lexmark Z23 color printer is the ideal companion for your notebook, laptop, or desktop computer. Lightweight and compact enough for portability, the Z23 boasts a high 1,200 x 1,200 dpi maximum resolution for clear, black text and vibrant color prints. Lexmark offers fast printing performance supported by Accu-Feed paper handling technology and a 100-page sheet feeder, reducing paper jams.

The Lexmark Z23 color printer provides crisp black text at up to 8 ppm and color prints up to 5 ppm, on a wide variety of media including plain and photo paper, transparencies, labels, index cards, and envelopes, plus paper stocks up to 150 pounds.

Featuring simple cartridge loading, the Lexmark Z23 is easy to set up and maintain. With convenient ink-level indicators, you won't be caught without ink in the middle of a project. Compatible with both Macintosh and Windows operating systems, you'll connect with either a parallel or USB cable. The Lexmark Z23 color printer is supported by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Lexmark Z23 printer, CD sleeve, worldwide driver CD for all operating systems, setup to printing guide, power supply, user's kit, print cartridge (color)

Product Description

Lexmark Z23 Color Jetprinter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Very Good, March 23, 2003

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Martin P. McCarthy (North Chili, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Z23 Color Printer (Office Product)

There is a reason why this printer is an added "perk" given to those who are buying an entire computer. Issues dealt with below:

Installation - Uncharacteristically clumsy this time around. Perhaps I had a semi-defective CD installation disc but all sorts of installation issues arose.

Alignment process - Again, uncharacteristically clumsy. Your "choices" for the best "alignment of the printer cartridges" all basically looked the same (read poor quality).

Cartridge installation - Easier installation than previous generations of the Lexmark printer.

Cartridge ink - Ink is used up in the cartridge at an alarming rate. If one is a moderate user of the printer then the amount of replacement ink cartridges required would make this printer especially not cost effective.

Sheet feeder - With a new unit I had more uneven sheet pulls than should be expected. I also had a couple of mangled pages.

My recommendation is that one should avoid this printer especially is if one expects to do moderate to high volume printing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I got it for free. So, why complain?, April 8, 2002

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Michael A. Brown "maniacmedia" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Z23 Color Printer (Office Product)

This is a decent low-end inkjet printer. Be warned though, Lexmark does not include the cable to connect this to your USB port. You'll need a USB-A to USB-B cable to connect. Also, while the printer comes with a color cartridge, you'll need to add the black cartridge to make your blacks black. Also, you'll go through a lot less ink with the second cartridge in place. Other than that, it has proven to be worth everything I didn't pay for it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Spendy little booger, when all is said and done, June 2, 2003

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K. Bourn "bohemiangirlpdx" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark Z23 Color Printer (Office Product)

I bought mine for my office at the beginning of the year, in a fit of desperation to get a printer, any printer, as long as it would print something on that day. Living in a small town, my choices were fairly limited. By the time I bought my USB cable and the color printer cartridge, then drove to another store looking for the black ink cartridge, I felt like I hadn't saved much money.

For plain old black printing, it's not bad, and the per-page printing rate for normal or draft quality hasn't bothered me. Eventually, I figure it will make a decent emergency backup printer. My biggest complaint is the astounding rate at which I go through cartridges--... "Reconditioned" cartridges cost less but don't last as long. Refill kits are messy and run out even more quickly.

Complicating the cartridge situation is the difficulty of finding the black cartridges. You would think that the store where I bought the printer would carry them. Wrong! Neither office supply store that I regularly use carries them either. (Amazon has delivered quite promptly when I've ordered here.)

I do appreciate the ink level reminder that pops up every time that I print. Given the speed with which the ink runs out and the difficulty getting a new cartridge the same day, the advance warning is helpful. The cartridges also are quite easy to change. Having to print a new "alignment" sheet and attempt to make adjustments frequently proves a tedious interruption.

Since I wasn't specifically shopping for a color printer, the ability to print in color was a bonus. Printing good-quality pictures takes quite a while, and the quality isn't that great. I have noticed that despite the ink-level indicator suggesting that I have plenty of ink, if one color is low, the warning doesn't let me know. For the most part, I've been satisfied with the color printing quality because it suits my purposes: a color-highlighted word or two in handouts that I give to clients and printing photographs of Victorian dresses for my living history research.

The Lexmark's interface with a specialized software that I use for my business has been frustrating. Despite fiddling with alignment and calling tech support, the Lexmark Z23 continues to cut off the "tails" of certain letters when I print single-spaced Courier. Despite selecting the "print last page first" option, which works just fine in my Word documents, my specialized software continues to print "first page first"--which results in my having to handsort lengthy packets. This same software has never proven difficult with other printers that I have used.

If I could just save some money from the cost of cartridges, perhaps I could afford to buy a real printer!