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Lexmark Z735 Color Inkjet Printer Review

By admin ⋅ September 26, 2007 ⋅  Send this to a friend.. ⋅  Print this article. ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Add to Technorati Favorites

Printer owners continue to complain about the costs of consumables, such as ink cartridges and paper. Now Lexmark has set out to confound them with its Z735, an ink-jet printer that takes just one, three-color cartridge, costing £13.50 a throw. The argument is that this is both cheap and simple for the first-time buyer, but are we getting all the facts, or is the company trying to resell an old idea, which most makers have since moved beyond?

The Z735 has a very conventional design and a boxy appearance, though with rounded edges. Paper feeds from a near-vertical rear tray to an extendable one at the front. There are two control buttons, one to switch the printer on and off and the other to feed paper. A single USB 2.0 socket at the rear connects the printer to a PC.

Lexmark claims 15ppm in draft mode for both black text and color images. We test in normal mode, as we believe that’s what most people use, and it repeatedly took over two and a half minutes to print our five-page text document. That equates to just under 2ppm, not a good result. Our page of text and color graphics took 39 seconds to complete, so again, something under 2ppm.

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