They sell you a printer, get it home, then it says on box usb A-B cable required, there 99p 0n ebay, wtf they playing at, like buying a car with no steering wheel......

Yea and they charge you a fortune for the inks and after market ones aren't available due to Lexmark patenting the cartridge. Better off paying a bit more for the equivalent Epson as after market inks are cheap for them.

Think its gonna go back, sorry but its just not cricket, can you imagine going to pick your new car up, " its on the forecourt sir, you will need to go to our parts dept for a steering wheel though if you want to actually drive it" ?

Bet it was cheap tho'!!!

Be even cheaper if you don't use it - no ink, no paper etc etc

Lexmark tend to be reliable but tend to a lot slower than the claimed PPM --- but personally having had hundreds of printers to deal with professionally I wouldn't consider buying any inkjet that wasn't made by HP.

i was a Lexmark printers fan for yease then i got a canon printer ,the ink for my Lexmark printer was £43 each for coulour and £23 for black
for my new canon printer its £1 each from ebay (the mrs work pays for the ink so was no big deal but i would say the canon from argos is better)

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Originally posted by britishtrident
I wouldn't consider buying any inkjet that wasn't made by HP.

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We bought a cheap Lexmark photo printer with a dedicated cartridge and paper pack for £29.99. Refills are £20 for 100 photo sheets and ink and it reads from the smart card. My wife thinks it's brilliant, she can crop and print a photo without plugging it into the computer if she wants. Our main printer has always been HP even though the cartridges are dearer, the recycled ones are cheap enough.

lexmark - cheap and cheerful, you really do get what you pay for, spend a bit more and get an hp. Much more reliable, don't need cleaning every other page printed and the ink will last longer than equivalent use. Same goes for epson, would never go back to epson having had an hp now.

I bought one to. Seen the note on the box so went and bought a cable from PC world.

Got home openned the printer box an low and behold it came with a cable so now have a spare USB cable

You won't find many printers that come with a cable these days regardless of manufacturer, even relly expensive tp-brand lasers etc - it's just the way the market has gone.

Personally i'm quite happy, i have far too many spare leads from old equipment as it is and don't want to pay for another!