Excellent multifunction printer but not for 64-bit linux
I have owned this printer for a little over a week and would give it 5 stars *except* for the scanner drivers.
First the good: Setup was fast and pretty easy (like most other printers these days it has a web interface allowing you to change parameters). I have it hooked up to one machine via USB and it is also on the network. It is fast to print fast to copy fast to scan. If you don't need faxing you can go with the less expensive but otherwise identical x363.
The bad: Lexmark provides no 64-bit linux scanner drivers period. This is not revealed anywhere and I had even gone to the trouble of checking out the scanning manual available at the excellent Lexmark web site. A general lack of scanner drivers is a common state of affairs in the Linux world but given the explicit support for linux for this printer (one of the reasons I bought it) I assumed wrongly that the scanner drivers would be available in both 32 and 64-bit. Lexmark technical support responded within 24 hours as promised but the response was useless and I never thought they understood my question (when would 64-bit drivers be available). There are 32-bit scanner drivers. They're a little clunky but scanning does work e.g. via xsane.
On the other hand the Linux printing support (via cups) is excellent.
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