There are some pretty good, even believable excuses, I mean reasons, as to why I have had this Lexmark inkjet setting lonely and forlorn in a box in my window sill for the past six months instead of testing it and telling you about it.
The story begins with a 486, an old printer card, an IRQ conflict and ends with an expired beta version of Windows 98. I won't bore you with the details of what went on in between.
The problem is now rectified and my testing is finished. The Lexmark is a fairly average inkjet if you look at the stats on the box.
It prints at 600 dpi or 1200 with interpolation and can use a special photo cartridge which converts the machine from a four-colour printer to six-colour capacity.
The 5000 is small, lightweight and fairly inexpensive, but there is one undocumented feature that is quite interesting.
Lexmark claims that its machines are the only inkjets on the market which can print in the tissue-paper-thin materials that many people use for writing paper in the mainland.