Lexmark P707 Photo Inkjet Printer 4800X1200DPI (Lexmark-15L0800)

Bottom Line
The P707 makes sense for someone who needs a printer more for text documents than for photos but who still wants the capability.
Lexmark P707
P707 Photo Inkjet Printer 4800X1200DPI (Lexmark-15L0800) Review, by Eric Butterfield August 1, 2003

WHAT'S HOT: Though the P707 didn't make the Top 5 photo printer chart, we found plenty to like about it. First is the $100 price for a machine with four built-in flash-memory readers that handle the most popular memory-card formats; HP's Photosmart 7550 has a similar crop of card readers, but it costs $300. Lexmark's driver can download images from your memory cards onto your PC, so the printer doubles as a generic card reader. We also liked its very practical text-printing speed. At 5.1 ppm, it's faster than three of the photo printers on the Top 5 chart. It also printed sharp, clean text, making it a bargain as a general-purpose SOHO printer.
WHAT'S NOT: While the P707 is quick with text, it's terribly slow with photos, printing them at only 0.1 pages per minute--by far the slowest model tested for the chart. Despite the contemplative speed, it doesn't do a great job on high-resolution glossy photos, showing smooth texture and shading but losing too much detail. Also, like many photo printers, it holds a three-color cartridge plus either a photo-ink cartridge or a black cartridge--not both--so you have to swap cartridges when you switch to printing text, unless you want to quickly exhaust the photo cartridge's tiny supply of black ink. You'll have to spend an extra $29 for the black cartridge, though, because Lexmark doesn't include it with the P707. Another way Lexmark cut costs: The P707 wobbles and feels flimsy. Lexmark's documentation is good enough to get you started but somewhat thin on advanced topics.
WHAT ELSE: Lexmark's Photo Center software includes a program for creating and printing photo albums. It has a varied selection of ready-made templates, plus easy-to-use tools for designing new layouts from scratch.
UPSHOT: The P707 makes sense for someone who needs a printer more for text documents than for photos but who still wants the capability.
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Reviewed by: kelvinling
Strengths: Built-in card reader, easy for installation.
Weaknesses: Print speed for black/white is really really slow.
Overall: I originally bought this item just for black/white paper printing and found that I really should not choose this one, because it is designed for photo/color printing, I depleted the black int very quickly. Another thing with the lexmart printer is that the inkjet is pretty expensive (not just for this printer but for all lexmark brand printer).
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Reviewed by: jijiww
Strengths: Good quality for the price. Fulfill your basic need of printing. Easy to use.
Weaknesses: Poor quality compared with Canons or Epsons.
Overall: Overall it is an above average low-end printer for beginners. It can print photos if the requirement for quality is low. The photos appears a bit over-red which means the color banlance of the printer is not perfect. Good quality when printing black and white documents.
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Reviewed by: zshen
Strengths: Cheap; fairly good quality
Weaknesses: Not fast; ink too expensive
Overall: It's a good deal at the price I paid. The photo quality is pretty good, which is supposed to be. Printing is kind of slow, which is also expected. Ink cartridges are too expensive. So basically it's a disposable printer for me. After ayear, it's also outdated anyway. I would only recommend it to friends when it's on sale at a relatively low price.
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Reviewed by: raise
Strengths: easy to install, good photo quality, and built-in memory slot
Weaknesses: expensive cartridges
Overall: I bought it when it went for sale. It served me very well. The suppliers are too expensive to buy so that I discarded this printer when it went out of the cartridges. Overall, it is a fine printer. Good photo quality and easy to use.
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Reviewed by: matlab
Strengths: Nice looking(black), convenient card reader
Weaknesses: A little slow for photo printing
Overall: It's compact and light. In black--looks nice. The ink cartridges are compatible with many other lexmark printers. OK printing quality. And the built-in all-in-one card reader is very convenient. One small problem is its photo printing speed is a little low. Don't know if it's true for all photo printers.
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