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That must be Lexmark's strategy! I bought a Z-31 that cost $39.95 and came with a set of cartridges. A replacement set of cartridges cost $50.00 for remanufactured!

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I have an HP, Compaq and Lexmark printer. All three take exactly the same cartridges. Sanyo also takes the same carteidges.

But some OLD Lexmark, Canon, and IBM inkjets shared the same cartridges. On the Business printing side of the house. The IBMs were relabeled Lexmark's and the Canon shared the same Tech, but not the case.

Art

Oops, Too late. You can already have a color LaserJet for free! All you have to be able to do is buy a fixed amount of Ink per month on a 2 year contract. BTW: The black ink cartridges are free as well as the printer. And you must like the Tektronix Phaser line of printers.

Unless Lexmark changed their policy in the last year, the cartridges that came with the printer are the "Lite" cartridges, the replacement ones you buy have twice the ink.

Well, I know that the Compaq and Sanyo are made by Lexmark, but I have never heard of an HP that uses the same cartridge as a Lexmark. What are the models of those two.

Lexmark is the spinoff company of IBM's printer/typewriter lines. So, Lexmak = IBM.

Don't know about Canon ever sharing anything in common with other marks, but in late 90's Compaq sold some low-end relabled printers, either Epsons or Canons.

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But some OLD Lexmark, Canon, and IBM inkjets shared the same cartridges. On the Business printing side of the house. The IBMs were relabeled Lexmark's and the Canon shared the same Tech, but not the case.

Art

I've heard of that. an obvious ploy to get you to buy additional cartridges.... and so annoying. Compared to all the other costs involved, ink is probably not a big part of the equation..... I feel the same way about restaurants that serve small drinks, so you will probably by a second.

btw, what's with the x-posting...

Arne

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Val,

You are quite correct. The Lexmark line is a spinoff of IBM. Many of the early IBM desktop laser printer did use a Canon 'engine'. Not sure of the HP line. When the Lexington plant was spun off, they took the 'low end' printers at the time(23xx impact, Optra laser series...) IBM kept the high end stuff, and both agreed not to invade each other's 'turf' for 5 years. Both are now competitors, but there has been 're-badged' Lexmark stuff sold by IBM. IIRC, the IBM NP12 laser printer is a re-badged Xerox machine, that was made for Xerox by who knows who!

Jim Bernier

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I don't have it any more and don't remember the number. It was one of the cheap ones that came as a combo with my laptop about 5 years ago.

The Compaq IJ series use Lexmark cartridges. I have an IJ-900.