Lexmark Genesis

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 04:31 AM

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#2 jscotta

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 04:52 AM

As a small business scanner, it is not exciting. Two things hold it back for me, the expensive ink cartridges and the lack of an automatic document feeder. Using the camera for the scan sensor is a great and evolutionary (not revolutionary) idea. With cell phones using their built-in camera, you just knew it had to happen. However, that is not to say that it isn't a great idea, because it is.

Without the ADF, I simply cannot recommend this as a small business scanner to my clients.

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 12:30 PM

I own a Lexmark printer currently for my microsoft environment. When I "went Mac" last year, I hooked it up to my Lexmark printer and....nothing. No printer driver for the Lexmark from Mac. I contacted Lexmark and they basically told me "sucks to be you"...we don't have drivers for the mac, and we're not retrofitting any of our printers to be usable by a mac.

So, live an learn people. Don't buy any lexmark printers for your mac. Even if they make them for their new ones, they've stiffed a whole generation of lexmark printer owners.

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 01:42 PM

What model Lexmark is it that you own and were "stiffed" with?

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Posted 13 December 2010 - 03:02 PM

Agree with jscotta. I would buy it if it has ADF. For us, color laser printers work pretty well when it comes to cost, speed and the durability of the prints.

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Posted 14 December 2010 - 05:44 AM

From this review it doesn't look as though this would be a good MFP for anybody. The design of it seems to be the only thing positive about it. As a printer it doesn't seem very good with a terribly slow output and horribly expensive inks which, anymore seems to be tolerated less and less because we all know that we're being taken for a ride. The output for color jobs didn't impress either and while I do like the idea of a camera for scan/copy projects this one seems a fail as well if text doesn't look sharp and crisp and you lose detail in line art and photos. If a 10MP camera took photos like that it would get blasted for sure. It might blaze through the work but if the end result is poor who cares.

This review starts out well enough but then goes downhill and never seems to recover. I'm left with a feeling of a disconnect at the end in Buying Advice paragraph because almost everything preceding tells me to stay away from it. Maybe he just focused on what is bad about this product and it was rather short but from this I wouldn't even consider it.

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Posted 14 December 2010 - 05:52 AM

gmalumpy, on 13 December 2010 - 12:30 PM, said:

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Posted 14 December 2010 - 06:02 AM

Not sure who you spoke with at Lexmark but they definitely mislead you. On Lexmark.com you can download Mac drivers for all of their printers. You can even purchase a Lexmark printer at the Apple Store.

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Posted 27 June 2011 - 05:27 AM

Yes. That's why months ago I asked what model printer this person had - and got no response. I think it's obvious he was just trolling to bash Lexmark.

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