Lexmark C530dn review

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May 6, 2008

Posted by: barrie

"Avoid at all costs"

What I like:

Price, print qaulity

What I don't like:

Colour toners "time out"

Review:

No complaints on quality, purchase price etc, but the key problem is colour toner apparent use. We use the printer primarily for mono printing, but we have had to replace the colour toners 6 times for a total of just over 800 colour copies. All the colour toners show empty at exactly the same time, presumably because they have a chip that tells them its time to extract more money from the owner. They are not physically empty. Lexmark say that when printing mono you use a bit of colour toner, but this does not explain why the toners say they are empty when, physically it is clear they are not. If like us, you want a printer for mostly mono with the occassional colour, you will end up spending a fortune on toner you don't actually use. Now the colour photoconductors and showing low.
If you are printing mostly colour, running cost will probably not be too bad, but the fact that all toners shoe empty at the same time will mean you are still wasting toner - on no other printer we have had have all the toners run out at exactly the same time. Black toner use has been acceptable and matches indicated life.
Reviews should pay closer attention to running costs - in just one year we've spent almost three times more on toners (that we haven't actually used up ) than we paid for the printer.