Lexmark X6570

Reviewed by: Krandog29

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Fast Prints and Copies.Scan to a wide range of applications on any connected computer.All-In-One with document feeder.

Weaknesses: Printing from Mac OS 10.4 is sluggish.Occasionally print jobs from the Mac get stuck in the print queue.

Overall Evaluation: I mainly purchased this printer to replace a wired HP Officejet. My wife was give a MAC, and I was unable to get it to connect to the shared OfficeJet on my PC. This All-In-One was advertised as both MAC and PC compatible. The included instruction manual was not very clear on the wireless portion of the printer setup, but the setup wizard on CD made short work of that. My biggest complaint is that printing from the MAC is slow and sluggish. I am not certain that it is the printer which is at fault, but I do know that all other wireless connections from the MAC are fast. Occasionally print jobs sent from the MAC get stuck in the print queue. It takes 10 minutes or more to delete the job from the queue (whether from the MAC or PC), and you cannot print until the job is cleared from the queue. Based on both the above problems, I would venture to say that there is a problem with the print driver for the MAC. It appears that the driver has difficulty creating the print jobs and that is why it is slow and the print jobs are corrupted at times. All in all this printer does what it is advertised to do, and at a great price. It is probably the best out there for the money I paid. If it was not for my two complaints, I would have given it 5 stars.