Lexmark Printers

Lexmark printers mostly have the print head built into the ink cartridge. These printers are cheap to buy but tend to be expensive to buy replacement inks for. A lot of people once they have purchased a cheap printer are shocked to find that one set of replacement inks cost more than the printer did! You wouldn't believe how many people come into the shop and find out the price and watching their faces fall when they realise that their printer is not a bargain after all is horrible. Lexmark also restrict where they sell certain cartridge models to keep the price unrealistically high and also try to restrict the supply of recycled cartridges to the remanufacturers for the same reason. Remanufactured cartridges are available but only for a couple of product lines, meaning you have to buy the genuine cartridges, there is no alternative. Lexmark printers mainly take two cartridges (one black one colour) so you are back to the old problem of when one colour ink runs out you have to replace the whole cartridge, throwing out ink in the process and wasting money. The printers themselves are good quality but the price of running them is prohibitive. The phrase I hear most when a customer is buying a set of Lexmark inks is "it would be cheaper to buy a new printer" and guess what it is TRUE! So my best advice is not to buy a Lexmark and save yourself some pennies!