Lexmark X264DN Multifunction Printer

I calculated toner consumption based on the price of their high-capacity toner, which they claim is rated for 9,000 pages. Don't believe it. The "low toner" indicator comes on at around 5,000 pages, and the printed pages look fairly washed out by then. By 7,000 pages, the printed pages look too washed out to even read anymore, even with lots of toner shaking.

This is with copying and printing text documents, many of which do not take up the full 8.5x11 area (e.g. photocopies of driver's licenses).

There are a few other minor problems. The network drivers consume a lot of resources and are a bit squirrely. The document feeder frequently pulls through multiple pages at a time and is difficult to unjam. Mostly, though, the main problem is toner capacity. Based on the claimed toner capacity, I calculated that this printer would have very low per-page costs compared to other printers. In practice it's not nearly as economical as I thought it would be.

This is a great machine for the money. Warm-up speed is quick and when it begins printing, it prints fast and quite. This machine is great for a home or office environment. The scan to email function is superior to all of the other multi-function machines I've owned. The scanning software minimizes the number of trips you need to make to the machine, so if the printer is in another room, you don't have to run back and forth a bunch of times. The duplexer in the printer works flawlessly. What else can I say, it's quiet, reasonably priced, fast, and has great print quality.

I did run in to a significant installation problem during setup. I set this machine up on 5 different computers. Everything appeared to go fine during the install, but after I shut down 2 of the computers at the end of the day and started them up the next morning, Lexmark's scanning software completely locked up 2 of them and would not let the operating system boot up. Since I didn't need scanning...Read more

Scanner setup is difficult. I still have been unable to complete scanner function. Instructions are provided in the manual but they are not intuitive.