Lexmark B2650dw Monochrome Laser Printer, Duplex with Two Sided Printing, Wireless Network Capability (36SC471), Medium, White/Gray

Over the last three years, I've purchased a total of six of these units for the office I work in. They've all been setup on our network. I can't say they're super user friendly - I think they're geared towards office or commercial use. But they work like champs. True workhorse printers. I've had to replace the imaging unit on a few of them, but that's easy to do and it's also cheap. The only complaint I get from the people who use them every day is that they're a bit loud compared to other models. But the fact is, they perform. And as I said, I've purchased several of these over the course of a few years, and I've had zero problems with them. Great buy!

Very solid printer. Very fast. Excelant print quality for documents.Absolutely horrible print quality when printing full page xrays. Lines across the page every 0.100' or so ... and just plain "Foggy" image quality.If you're looking for a business document printer this is probably a great little printer. If you want to print images ... not so much.

Lexmark MS610dn vs HP LJ P3005dnThough not exactly equivalent the units are close. Both are business class, duplex printers. This Lexmark MS610 review is first impression or a recent purchase.I've been an HP printer fan for years and still own an HP 2300d that chugs along. But it was made in the USA. The newer, made in China, LJ P3005 died after three years. This was apparently due to bad Chinese solder joints. I could have let that pass, but the High Yield HP print cartridge I used died at 50% usage and the Philippine based customer support did not know what to do. I don't think HP is committed to quality under its current management.I decided to try Lexmark after noting that Home Depot and others had changed their printers from HP to Lexmark.Lexmark is also made in China. But hopefully the factories they use, know how to solder.1) CARTRIDGE: Lexmark uses split Imaging Cartridge $70, (60,000 pages) and Toner 501 Cartridge, $131 (5,000 Pages) with a maintenance kit at $300 (200,000 sheets,) [data from print menu].Imaging Cartridge has no protection of tubular turquoise photo drum. HP has a single Cartridge and DOES protect the Photo Drum. 51A, 6,500 pages, $1002) NOISE (SPL, measured): HP LJ P3005dn 58db, 35ppm. Lexmark MS610dn, Quiet Mode 60db. Lexmark Normal Mode: 66db) Lexmark is noisy and noisier than HP but can be a bit quieter in Quiet mode.3) INSTALLATION: Easy for Lexmark. On Printer screen after initial bootup, I said yes to "Do you want to setup from WebServer". It connected to the local network and the Printers built in WebServer was easy to use. I used drivers from Lexmark site rather than CD. I did get confused by the pictorial only instructions when it came to shaking the imaging unit. Still don't understand that step.The only complication came when checking out various label and card stock print settings. Even though I told the SW driver to use the Multipurpose Tray it would pull the paper out of the main tray. This was due to some Lexmark confusing "feature" that automatic links trays with similar paper and size. Changing paper type solved confusion.The unit prints excellently so far.

Why 3 stars? Well, I had an E460 Lexmark printer of the same approximate size and shape for 6-7 years that I was very happy with. It started getting firmware errors, and after reflashing the latest firmware a few times and still getting errors, I decided to get a new printer rather than messing with fixing the old one's main board or whatever. So I chose the MS610dn. Why not? The processor is faster and has 2 cores. It has a color display rather than monochrome.Gigabit ethernet rather than 100baseT. Print engine a few PPM faster. More sophisticated networking firmware. Paper handling about the same (except the standard drawer on the MS610dn is the 500 page drawer, whereas on the E460 it was the 250 page drawer, so the drawer I needed to add was less expensive}. The MS610dn uses cheap laptop memory modules to add memory...that's good. The internal design for inserting and removing the toner and fuser cartridges has been a bit refined here so you never really fumble. The printing looks pretty darn good after you get the squeaks out of the paper lifter by printing a few dozen sheets. So what's not to like? Answer: this thing has flimsier overall construction than the older model (mine is built in China and has a lot of labels inside in Chinese), and the main problem is, it prints with an annoying high-pitched whine that's more intrusive than the E460's printing sound. Not enough to make me return it, but enough to keep me from loving it.

Lexmark MS610DN is the best value, highest tech & feature rich, reasonably small footprint laser printer we have ever purchased!Our 18+ year old Lexmark Optra N245 laser printer recently failed on a busy Friday late afternoon. The N245 never presented an issue prior to the recent failure, logically we purchased a new Lexmark MS610DN. MS610DN is incredibly fast, quiet, goes into sleep mode & wakes up immediately ready to go, feature rich for anyone on the network, 256mb memory factory standard never a hiccup, 500 sheet tray is standard IMO makes the 610 best value over the 300,400,500 series with 250 paper tray. Very please with the work flow of this machine!!

This copy machine was sold as "new". However, Lexmark's warranty was voided as someone had over-ridden and changed the factory's auto-set program. It took quite sometime to re-program the printer back to it's original program.The machine was not new and I paid the price of a new one which was about $40. more than a used one.

Good printer, prints fast and very crisp. Toners are relatively inexpensive. In general I like the printer.