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(11 customer reviews) 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A fine printer - that does print Envelopes on a Mac!,
February 9, 2011 Alex Patterson (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexmark E260D Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)
I had a Lexmark E232 for 6 or so years and it was a great, reliable printer for my modest home office needs. I wanted higher resolution with duplex and so, given my experience with the previous Lexmark, it was natural to upgrade to the E260d.
Well, I've had the printer for several days now and can report that it's everything I was expecting - great print quality, fast print times and no paper feed issues.
The only slight problem ... seemed to be the dreaded Mac envelope mess reported here. The first time I tried an envelope ... argh! ... exactly as other users have said, the print was off the side of the envelope. I have to admit, I read those reviews before buying and figured a company like Lexmark couldn't have failed to solve an issue reported as far back as 2009. Looking further around now that I had the issue, there seemed to be no solution posted on the internet. I was worried. BUT ... I contacted Lexmark support and, within a few minutes they had a...Read more
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Superb Technical Assistance, Printing Envelopes,
July 2, 2010 Retired Computer Duffer - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lexmark E260D Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)
I bought the Lexmark E260d as what looked like the best overall value to replace an HP Laserjet 1200 that failed after years of service. Printing regular bond from the paper tray worked perfectly. I misunderstood the owner manual's instructions on "open manual feeder door" so could not print envelopes or labels. The email tech assistance wasn't very helpful with this problem. After several email evolutions, I called 1-800-Lexmark, expecting the usual delays and marginal responsiveness that we have learned to associate with free tech assistance. Not so with Lexmark! After hardly any recorded phone tree queries, I was speaking with a human in less than 2 minutes. He was attentive and correctly determined I'd loaded all the printer driver and other software correctly, so transferred me to the hardware dept. There another efficient, attentive techie took a minute to set up another E260d in front of him, so we would each see and do exactly the same thing. Big dummy me, had been opening the...Read more
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Fine Printer - But you don't want to sleep with it nearby.,
February 16, 2011 Peter Lund - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lexmark E260D Mono Laser Printer (Office Product)
I got this printer for my home office (where my desk is in the room next to my bedroom). I read lots of reviews to make sure I chose a good performing laser model and this one did a fine job in the one month I owned it. But it has one odd quirk that no one seemed to mention: it makes periodic clunking noises when idle.
About once every 2-3 hours the machine will forward its drum roller just a bit to prevent it from staying in contact with heated parts for too long. Perhaps not a big deal if you have the machine way down the hall, but the split-second clunking noise was loud enough to wake me up in the adjacent room several times each night. And I didn't enjoy sitting next to it all day either.
The only way to avoid this problem is to turn off the computer between uses - which really isn't very practical because the power switch is way down low on the backside and hard to reach if the printer is inside a cabinet or against the wall (like most usually are)...Read more
