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I think I'll vote with my dollar and never buy a Lexmark product again.

alyandon 11y ago
Unfortunately, all this story does is confirm what I already knew about Lexmark. I've refused to purchase Lexmark gear after they started using the DMCA to try and prevent third parties from manufacturing compatible toner and ink cartridges for their printers.
- guelo 11y ago
  Doesn't HP do the same thing?
- Natsu 11y ago
  I got rid of mine when I discovered that I could buy a new printer AND and an extra refill of the new ink for less than I could buy just ink for my old Lexmark. Trashed it and never looked back.
jqm 11y ago
I've got you beat by several years....
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ceejayoz 11y ago
I'd expect virtually every product you purchase at a large store - computers, furniture, toys, food - to have a pretty similar labor situation behind it. The shrimp we eat are farmed by slaves, FFS.
manyxcxi 11y ago
Have you ever owned a Lexmark? I had a mid-level color inkjet around 2004, it was my first and only time ever with that brand. That's how bad my experience was. Not that I'm in love with HP or any of the alternatives, I'm really apathetic about them all- except Lexmark (and Xerox, which I only dislike because of how crappy they treat corporate employees and how damn expensive some of their middling hardware is). Side note, I print so little that I switched to a laser printer YEARS ago and I've only used like two toner cartridges. I got a $150 Brother multi-function black and white laser like 6 years ago and share it with my TP-Link router to all the machines on my network with very little issue. First page print time is pretty slow, but I usually don't even pick it up from across the house for a while.
- tracker1 11y ago
  I've gotten to a point where I favor HP laser printers... will never own another ink printer again. I don't print for months at a time... my printer (M451nw) is in standby mode, attached to the network via ethernet, and when I need to print something, a few seconds later, sheets of paper stream out, getting it setup so I could print from my phone (via google/hp cloud) was the only cumbersome step. I've had trouble with Brothers getting them to work in Linux, which is weird since they opensource much of their drivers, though no idea on licensing. And the scan/fax function never worked outside windows. Then again, my current HP is about 3yo, and running strong... last one I have for 5+ years (and bought it used at a school auction) HP 4000, that was a wonderful beast. Prior to that was a Brother scanner/copy/fax laser, still running, with my ex-wife. Before that I had a few different inkjet printers of different makes and I hated them all... as I said, don't print often enough. I wish OS drivers/printers for ink would print a test/flow page every 3 days that they haven't printed, assuming they have power, just to keep the jets lubricated.
  - manyxcxi 11y ago
    I didn't have a lot of luck with the Brother in Linux either. I sort of mostly got it working in Ubuntu 14 desktop. It's worked fine on OSX both directly connected and scanning as well as remotely connected, but that has more to do with the TP-Link drivers.
maceo 11y ago
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Unfortunately, all this story does is confirm what I already knew about Lexmark. I've refused to purchase Lexmark gear after they started using the DMCA to try and prevent third parties from manufacturing compatible toner and ink cartridges for their printers.

guelo 11y ago
Doesn't HP do the same thing?
Natsu 11y ago
I got rid of mine when I discovered that I could buy a new printer AND and an extra refill of the new ink for less than I could buy just ink for my old Lexmark. Trashed it and never looked back.

jqm 11y ago

I've got you beat by several years....

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ceejayoz 11y ago

I'd expect virtually every product you purchase at a large store - computers, furniture, toys, food - to have a pretty similar labor situation behind it. The shrimp we eat are farmed by slaves, FFS.

manyxcxi 11y ago

Have you ever owned a Lexmark? I had a mid-level color inkjet around 2004, it was my first and only time ever with that brand. That's how bad my experience was. Not that I'm in love with HP or any of the alternatives, I'm really apathetic about them all- except Lexmark (and Xerox, which I only dislike because of how crappy they treat corporate employees and how damn expensive some of their middling hardware is). Side note, I print so little that I switched to a laser printer YEARS ago and I've only used like two toner cartridges. I got a $150 Brother multi-function black and white laser like 6 years ago and share it with my TP-Link router to all the machines on my network with very little issue. First page print time is pretty slow, but I usually don't even pick it up from across the house for a while.

tracker1 11y ago
I've gotten to a point where I favor HP laser printers... will never own another ink printer again. I don't print for months at a time... my printer (M451nw) is in standby mode, attached to the network via ethernet, and when I need to print something, a few seconds later, sheets of paper stream out, getting it setup so I could print from my phone (via google/hp cloud) was the only cumbersome step. I've had trouble with Brothers getting them to work in Linux, which is weird since they opensource much of their drivers, though no idea on licensing. And the scan/fax function never worked outside windows. Then again, my current HP is about 3yo, and running strong... last one I have for 5+ years (and bought it used at a school auction) HP 4000, that was a wonderful beast. Prior to that was a Brother scanner/copy/fax laser, still running, with my ex-wife. Before that I had a few different inkjet printers of different makes and I hated them all... as I said, don't print often enough. I wish OS drivers/printers for ink would print a test/flow page every 3 days that they haven't printed, assuming they have power, just to keep the jets lubricated.
- manyxcxi 11y ago
  I didn't have a lot of luck with the Brother in Linux either. I sort of mostly got it working in Ubuntu 14 desktop. It's worked fine on OSX both directly connected and scanning as well as remotely connected, but that has more to do with the TP-Link drivers.

maceo 11y ago

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