The Lexmark X5470 cuts some corners to achieve its exceptionally low $100 price tag (as of 10/25/06), but it still packs a remarkable set of features

Low price; Built-in fax and automatic

Slow photo printing; Mediocre overall

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The Lexmark X5470 is an extremely affordable, all-in-one, inkjet printer that includes some surprising features – a built-in colour fax machine and sheet-fed copier – not expected in bargain-basement models.

Built-in colour fax; inexpensive; automatic document feeder; included media card reader

Must swap cartridges for photo printing; no individual ink cartridges; no preview LCD; software is inflexible; slow; lines appear in some images

Inkjet all-in-one machines are definitely beginning to take over from inkjet printers as the main consumer printing device. For very little more money, you have all the extra functionality of scanning and copying.

Lexmark's latest multifunction device has an attractive, robust design, and scores well for specifications and functionality.

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Stylish design; Very quick black printing

Prone to paper jams

Cheap to buy and run, the X5470 is great for mono printing, but less so for photos and images.

I bought this last year and have been very satisfied with it. It prints fast and the ink will last a long time if you set the print quality to Quick instead of Normal. In fact, the ink cartridge that came with it lasted me about 6 months.

Cheap; does everything you need for a multifunction printer; fast; quiet

Doesn't work too well with remanufactured ink cartridges; The Lexmark ink is expensive, but that is true for any inkjet printer

This model has a scanner, fax, color and Black printing.  Average quality and speed, but for the price range  (69.99 at BestBuy) a great value.  On Windows XP this runs without a hitch.  I also ran it for a while on an old Windows Millenium OS and it worked fine --  I had to download a special

This is a fine example of technology that never should have been introduced to the marketplace. My wife bought this for me at Valentine's day, and here it is not even Mother's Day, and the machine does everything but print. Which for a printer is a problem.