Lexmark PhotoJet Z705 Printer

by Lexmark

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000098YD0
• Item model number: Z705
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 15, 2003

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Lexmark Z705 Photo JetPrinter offers stunning color print results from a streamlined, compact desktop design. It supports optional networking for office applications, as well as optional six-color printing for high-quality photos.

The Lexmark Z705 can handle a wide variety of media types and sizes, up to 8.5 by 17 inches, including transparencies, labels, many envelope sizes, Japanese Hagaki and Kakugata, as well as the usual letter, legal, and executive sizes. All media input is directed through the auto-sheet feeder on the top of the printer, which accommodates up to 100 sheets of paper or 10 envelopes at a time.

Maximum print speeds are rated at 17 ppm for black, 10 ppm for color (both in draft mode), and resolutions can be as fine as 4,800 x 1,200 dpi on photo paper, or up to 2,400 x 1,200 dpi on other paper types.

The Lexmark Z705 offers standard USB connectivity for both PC and Mac users, while optional networking and wireless support is available with the separate purchase of Lexmark's N1 Ethernet Adapter or N5 Wireless Adapter. The Lexmark Z705 comes backed by a one-year warranty on parts and labor.

What's in the Box
Lexmark Z705 Color Jetprinter, #50 black print cartridge, #20 color print cartridge, installation software, installation software CD (drivers and software), online user's guide, setup sheet, power supply with cord, Lexmark Photo Center Software; USB cable

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Low price, good quality, easy setup, October 14, 2003

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Mike Christie (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark PhotoJet Z705 Printer (Office Product)

This is a compact and fast little printer. I use Windows XP Pro, and the setup was practically instantaneous; I've never seen setup instructions with no words, just diagrams, before, but it worked flawlessly first time.

The construction is reasonably robust -- not too plasticky. The footprint is about 18" by 9" with the feed racks pulled in, but realistically you need about 18" wide by at least 10-12" deep -- the front rack, which gathers the paper, can stick off the table OK. The footprint is 18" by 18" with both racks pulled out. The cartridges snapped in perfectly; everything worked fine immediately. The paper feed is not finicky at all and aligned the paper perfectly.

The only criticism I have is simply that this is an inkjet and so without special paper (and even with) it's just not as precise as a laser. I printed out a couple of text pages: the text looked solid and black until I got up fairly close. There was just a tiny hint of fuzz on the diagonals, when I squinted, and a magnifying glass confirmed what I thought I saw -- the line is a little blurry.

The colour is strong and clear, and as precise as the black.

A couple of other points to note: the installation process will make this your default printer. That may well be what you want (it wasn't, for me), but if not then don't forget to go back and reset the system default via Start -> Printers. And secondly, note that Amazon also sells this without the USB cable for one less dollar; this model has the cable, so get the other one if you have a cable to hand. Search for Z705 if you can't find the other one.

This is a great inkjet printer; for the price, this is as good as you're going to get.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Decent prints but ink pig, December 16, 2003

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J. Whealton (Central Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark PhotoJet Z705 Printer (Office Product)

I got this printer free with a really cheap computer package. I already had a pretty nice HP printer but since that was almost out of ink I figured I would just use this one for awhile. The prints this produces are almost as good as the HP (930 series by the way) but not quite there. The biggest drawback to the print process is the speed. Printing an 8.5x11 at "best" quality takes about 25 minutes.. far cry from the 10 ppm its description states(ppm = pages per minute?!... no way... I seriously doubt it could even print 10 pages containing one wallet size photo per page in draft mode in 3 or 4 minutes). But its much faster in draft mode or when using black/white obviously.

Another disappointment is the life span of the color ink cartridges. Printing most stuff like web pages and other misc. documents doesn't deplete the ink too much but those large "best" quality prints spray some serious ink. The driver for this printer comes with a little virtual ink gauge that keeps track of your ink levels. I printed 4 - 8.5x11 high quality prints tonight and the gauge dropped from 3/4 to about 1/3. That was disheartening. I suppose I have printed about 20 high quality 8.5x11 prints on these cartridges so far. Ink prices for this printer seem about average which means that a replacement set is going to cost about $55 bucks or so. Seeing as how most stores selling printers always have one for about $50 bucks I don't see why people buy new ink when its cheaper to buy the printer.

Anyway, it's a nice little printer that's easy to setup with nice driver software but compared to my previous HPs its way slower, uses more ink, and doesn't have as good of prints. If it was cheaper to feed I might give it a 3 star rating but it just doesn't deserve it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Easiest printer ever for photos; slurps ink, February 20, 2004

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Jeff A. Stucker "Jeff A. Stucker" (Eagle, ID United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark PhotoJet Z705 Printer (Office Product)

This printer comes with the easiest-to-use photo organizing and printing software we've ever seen. This is the first setup that my wife is actually willing to use. That's no small statement since we bought our digital camera three years ago -- which takes excellent photos -- but it's always been too complicated before installing the Lexmark software, which is a snap.

We printed about 100 borderless 4x6 photos before the ink ran out. Definitely we'll buy the high-capacity ink next time. With the high capacity ink I think it will come to something between 20-30 cents per photo.

At high resolution, the printer is super-slow. That's okay for us. Overall, it's a great purchase, but time will tell if the cost of ownership is too high due to the ink consumption.

Update 12/23/2006 (after 2 years): This thing is way too expensive to maintain; the ink costs more than double the competition -- even the "generic" ink is more expensive. Time to get a new printer.