My Lexmark Z65 printer (about 4 yrs. old) goes thru black ink too fast. I get about 20 pages out of a black ink cartridge. Should I just toss this thing and get something reliable?
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It's not the printer, but your setup and/or content being printed, but only 20 pages is ridiculously low. Try switching to draft output, or a less fine resolution. Higher resolutions use more ink. I say the previous because you imply that you have observed this phenomenon over the use of multiple ink cartridges and found it to be consistent regardless of the cartridge in use. If you experienced this for only a single cartridge, just use another cartridge and if the situation is repeated then apply my previous suggestion. As long as the printer is moving the cartridge and paper and producing a reasonable form of output, it is probably not the printer at fault.
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Thanks for the quick response. I have changed the settings to the low res/draft, have done the maintenance, including cleaning the cartridges, etc. My docs are just Word docs or Excel, with no color or special fonts, etc. It just printed tonight (one page), and the second page only printed a half. The test pages show color, but no black & white. The level indicator (that you see when you print) goes down quickly for the black cartridge. It's a mystery! I found another site (Lexmark support), so I'll see what they say. I'm thinking of getting rid of this so-called bargain printer now.
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One bit of advice I always give peiople when buying a printr is that - the cheaper the printer the more expensive it is to buy ink. The printer manufacturers have to make money someohw and many printers are sold at a loss. If you only print a little then the cost of ink is less important. When you are printing a lot especially if it is mainly black and white then maybe you should buy a printer that is cheaper on ink. A laser.. Finaly check your print quality. If you are printing in photo quality on absorbent paper for documents - that will use up ink at a very rapid rate...
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It doesn't sound good. It isn't likely the cartridges based on your description. The question is - where is all that ink going? Is it on your paper?
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