Product Description Experience the convenience of printing wireless with the Z1420! Compatible with 802.11g/b, enjoy high-quality printing from virtually anywhere in your home over your secure wireless network. Print fast - up to 24 ppm black and 18 ppm color. Also, create brilliant photos with optional 6-color printing and professional quality text and graphics with up to 4800 dpi. Printer is designed to utilize your network's security (WEP, WPA and WPA2) and broadcast range.
What a nighmare!!November 26, 2008 I originally purchased the the Lexmkar Z1420 after reading many positive reviews. For the first 4 months this printer worked great, but then randomly one day the wireless connection went. After about 3 painful hours on the phone with technical support they decided that it was broken and decided to send me a new upgraded printer. When that arrived a hooked it up and everything seemed fine, until I tried to print!! The new printer did not work!! I am so disgusted wiht Lexmark I will never buy their products again. In addition the guy at my work who does all of our computer stuff said their products really are crap. So please please do yourself a favor and spend the extra 20 or 30 dollars and get a better printer. I would not want anyone to go though the miserable experience I had between faulty printers and poor customer support.
Wireless WorthlessNovember 20, 2008 This printer was a dud. After installing and removing the driver seven times including a vista update twice it never printed anything meaningful and no response from lexmark support service so it was duly returned for a refund. I'll be avoiding this brand in the future.
CAVEAT EMPTOR!!!!!!
Don't buy Lexmark Z1420November 20, 2008 The Z1420 will only allow you to use Genuine Lexmark cartridges (no refills) and their cartridges are twice the price of 'compatible cartridges' for other printers. Lexmark Tech Support confirmed. If you dont mind exhorbantely high priced ink costs, then this may be your printer!
Avoid this productNovember 17, 2008 Printer did not work out of the box. After spending an hour with Lexmark tech support, they agreed to send a new one (which I think was a more current model). The new printer arrived quickly and was extremely difficult to set up on a wireless network. Printing wirelessly via my mac book provided to be very flakey and required constant tinkering. Lexmark tech support said the problem was related to the wireless drivers not working well with Leopard. After about two months wireless printing stopped working altogether. About two months after that, USB printing also stopped working. I guess I got my money's worth getting four months of usage for a $40 printer, but definitely not worth the aggravation.
Good for the price.November 7, 2008 The two main reason why I bought this printer was 1)price and 2)wireless capabilities.
The printer setup took all of at the most ten minutes to setup on my laptop. I then had to create an ad hoc connection between my laptop and the printer which was very easy and the instruction booklet explains it well.
The wireless is great, I have the printer sitting on the floor on the other side of the room, out of the way and I can turn on my wireless communication on my laptop and dont have to worry about having a big bulky printer in the middle of the room hooked up to the laptop.
I sometimes have a problem where the printer will not print every page I'm wanting to print off, but I haven't had that problem in a few days.
