Review on 💼 Enhance Your Business Efficiency with the Lexmark Platinum Pro905 Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer featuring a Web-Enabled Touchscreen by Rick Marie

Let me start by saying this printer is great in terms of speed and reliability using the ONLY products. Their black ink is only $5 which is a lot for black ink. On the other hand, their XL version color costs $60 if you buy the brand there. Because this printer is an ink return program printer, they don't want you to buy remanufactured ink. In fact, they keep saying it can ruin your printer, and that's why they don't condone it. I've bought remanufactured inks for printers from various manufacturers and never had a problem until I bought one from Lexmark. I've bought remanufactured inks for HP, Canon, Epson, and Dell and they're nearly pristine. With this Lexmark, my plan was to buy true black for $5 and buy the color from a remanufactured ink company for 50% the cost of original. If I wanted to print long lasting photos I would always use real ones no matter what to do with the generic may very well disappear over time but I bought this printer mainly for purposes other than photo printing. For these tasks I have Epson and Canon. Suffice it to say that I have been working with various remanufactured ink manufacturers for over a year as Lexmark, unlike many other manufacturers, makes it nearly impossible to clone their ink. I've now found a few companies that can do this with some success, but the reason I'm giving this printer two stars is because I've concluded that their third-party ink practices are very unethical indeed. volume in their printer, the remanufacturer has to get the chip just right so that it internally resets the paper counter, which then tells its firmware to either fill the ink level or leave it where it was before the replacement. What I recently discovered after more than a year of playing is that Lexmark makes it very difficult to reset the page counter when using 3rd party chips. If the third-party chip isn't perfect, it won't reset. I've worked with remanufactured ink companies and followed standard troubleshooting steps to help with this. None of this worked, like reinserting the ink cartridge, holding power for 15 seconds, or unplugging from the power strip after turning the printer off and plugging it back in for 15 minutes. I even recently reset the page counter with original ink. ink cartridge and then replaced it again with a generic ink cartridge, but instead of saving the state the original cartridge adjusted the volume for it, reverted to the last state it was in a working generic cartridge and was now practically empty . However, the reason I give two stars is that when the printer's ink level is very low, which shows up as a red circle with a white cross inside it, the ink isn't ejecting properly from the cartridge it's showing up in . displayed even though they have a lot of ink of that color in the cartridge because the reason for the low amount was that they could not correctly reset that cartridge. Not being Lexmark, Lexmark apparently starts shutting down until the entire cartridge is covered, making sure the ink doesn't spurt out of a cartridge they think is critically low, even if the cartridge is is literally full. This happens before the printer finally tells you that you need to replace the cartridge. When I discovered this practice, I was very disappointed in Lexmark. Maybe now all the ink manufacturers stop spraying properly on a sheet of paper when they show that the ink level is critically low, if it spatters at all I don't know, but I do know, at least on the Canon mx860, that the ink spatters regardless , whether they're generic or genuine, until the cartridge actually says there's no ink to disperse, but up to that point, even if it shows a critically low level, until it officially assumes they're empty, it gives the Ink data correct Ink and/or droplets on the ink head are not corrupted. That's why I'm giving this printer one star. I will never recommend Lexmark again. In fact, I've found that many of these printers who want you to give them the ink cartridge back after use core the cartridge and recycle it themselves. This is a practice common with remanufactured inks, but Lexmark is trying to scare its customers that buying from these third-party suppliers will ruin their printers, and how can these customers be convinced that these third-party ink manufacturers are at fault when everything goes smoothly In terms of interacting with their printers, when does Lexmark put together a printer that is very difficult to clone and even if it can be read it doesn't always reset, and when does it do so when the icon critical shows low even when it isn't, e.g. B. The printer is not releasing enough ink from the cartridge for a color that it reports as critically low. It was such a problem using generic ink cartridges with this printer. In fact, manufacturers of remanufactured inks have told me that Lexmark is the worst at this practice because they've seen HP, Canon and the others lose money because people like me don't want to pay for their expensive ink packages and see look at this Lexmark. imposed restrictions on his printer early on that strongly discouraged the use of regular inks, to the point that if the cartridge is not intentionally checked, you'll even get a message saying you have a non-genuine cartridge and it's dead replace a real one. and until you do that, the printer will not work at all. In conclusion, while other companies may soon follow Lexmark in this department, I blame Lexmark because it started with them, and even if it works, if the reset process fails, even if the cartridge has good ink that goes to the top is refilled. Lexmark doesn't use it, but will stop printing that color if it decides it's critical. low, although it actually contains enough ink to print decent images with that color.