Stinky Ink News

Just released and now available from Stock at your Stinkyinkshop is the refilled Lexmark No 1 Tri Colour cartridge.  This is a single cartridge which uses the three colours to produce black and so is not the most economical printer cartridge available in the world.  Now though you can save some money by using this refilled cartridge.  Lexmark have a claimed page yield of 120 pages at 5% page coverage, so if you are printing photo’s good luck.  Jet Tec’s refills always contain the maximum amount of ink that the cartridge can hold and should give you at least twice as much page yield as the Lexmark original.

This cartridge is compatible with the following Lexmark printers:
- Lexmark All-In-One:

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X2310

•  X2330
•  X2350
•  X2450
•  X2470
•  X3450
•  X3470
  - Lexmark JetPrinter:
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Z730

•  Z735

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In conjunction with its second-quarter earnings announcement on Tuesday, Lexmark International said it will close another of its inkjet cartridge-manufacturing plants in Mexico.

The move, which will cost the company about $24 million before taxes, will affect about 650 jobs. The company estimates most of the jobs at the Chihuahua, Mexico, plant will be moved to a lower-cost country. The company continues to operate a plant in Juarez, Mexico, where it closed one of two plants last year. It also has a plant in Lapu-Lapu City in the Philippines.

The closure is expected to save the company about $9 million annually beginning in 2009.

The goal is to improve the company’s struggling inkjet division, which has dragged on the health of the company since the latter half of 2005 and continues to weigh down earnings, as evidenced in Tuesday’s announcement.

Earnings for the second quarter included a 6 percent revenue drop but exceeded analysts’ expectations. That revenue drop was linked to the inkjet division, which sold 49 percent fewer printers in the quarter than in the same period a year earlier.

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We often get people enquiring whether we stock the Lexmark No 2 Tri Colour ink cartridge, but unfortunately we can’t actually buy them from our suppliers because they go into a range of printers that are only available through Dixons Stores Group (DSG) which include PC-World, Dixons, Currys and PCWorld.com, and due to the deal that Lexmark have with DSG we are not allowed to sell the ink cartridges for that printer.

This cartridge goes into the following Lexmark (Exclusive to DSG) printers:

• Z738
• Z1380
• Z1480
• X2480
• X2580
• X3480
• X3580
• X4580

However, we have just taken supplies of refilled No 2 cartridges and now have them available in stock.  The refilled cartridge is only £13.49 including VAT and FREE First class post delivery compared to the Lexmark original on the PCWorld website which is £17.99 + £4.95 standard delivery (whatever that means) which is an eye watering total of £22.94 - which makes us NINE quid cheaper!!!

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Unusually for a new printer the Lexmark X9575 comes with high capacity ink cartridges - none of your ’starter’ cartridges here!.  The machine includes Print, Scan, Copy and Fax functions is WiFi Enabled and comes with Duplex printing as standard.

Styled with Lexmark’s usual Black, White and Silver livery the X9575 is conventionally laid out with a 50 sheet ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) mounted on top of an A4 Flatbed Scanner. 

The Control panel includes a 60mm colour LCD Screen and a numeric keypad for dialling fax numbers. 

There is no way you could describe this as a fast printer, Lexmark quote both Normal and draft printing speeds, but our own five page test resulted in about 6PPM in black text and 2.3PPM in mixed text and graphics.  The Duplex printing speed is however quicker than most inkjet all-in-ones.  Our test document (which is 20 pages) completed in just over 4 minutes which is twice as fast as the Canon Pixma MP970.

We were disappointed with the quality of the output print on plain paper.  Despite the black being pigmented the black text is noticeably fuzzy with none of the edges of characters sharp or well defined.  Colours were cleaner and text printed over coloured background is well registered and easy to read.  Photo prints tend to be over-bright and may require some colour compensation to produce acceptable results.

Copies taken from the Scanner come through well, though colours are again paler than from originals.  Scans are well defined, thanks to an optical resolution of 1,200 x 4,800ppi.

The high yield 43 and 44 cartridges are supplied as standard and are available from Stinkyink

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After a doom laden week leading up to Lexmark International Inc, posting their fourth quarter earnings, they came in above analysts estimates on record sales to business clients and a range of new, more profitable products

Lexmark gained 13 percent in early trading after net income increased for the first time in three quarters. Profit came in at more than double the projections, before costs for closing plants and shifting workers to low-cost locations, and may exceed forecasts again this quarter.

Revenue from corporations rose 4 percent, helping to counter a slump in consumer sales brought on by price-cutting to fight bigger rival Hewlett-Packard Co. and a drop in orders from resellers including Dell Inc. Lexmark manufacturers printers under the dell brand, and has suffered low margins and falling sales through this channel. Lexmark closed a plant that made inkjet printer supplies, part of a shift to favor higher-profit laser products.

Business Sales

Lexmark Chief Executive Officer Paul Curlander has added new laser printers and machines that also scan and fax documents. He is focusing on business sales because those customers tend to buy more-profitable printers and supplies.

Consumer Sales

The consumer segment, which mostly sells inkjet printers, fell 15 percent to $509 million. The business sells products online and through retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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