Lexmark P315 Snapshot Photo Inkjet Printer (20C0000)

 (8 customer reviews)

I felt like I was taking a gamble buying this printer, considering that when I purchased it 3 days ago, I couldn't find any customer reviews on it and even Amazon wasn't listing the item yet. But given its competitively lower price than the Epson's and HP's comparable models, I decided to go with the Lexmark.

Overall, I am extremely satisfied with it. I've printed about 30 photos with it using the High Yield Lexmark Color Cartridge (#35) and recommended Fujifilm Plus Photopaper, both available together as part of Lexmark's P315 value pack. The printer interface is extremely user-friendly, and I've had lots of compliments on the photo quality. The average time to print from a Canon S50 with most photos set at a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels (Medium 1 setting) is roughly about 1 minute 40 seconds according to the printer's timer when printing in photo quality mode, which is fine by me. The cropping tool is handy, though I wish it would give options to crop photos in...Read more

I purchased the P315 laboring under the assumption that Lexmark would come out swinging in this competitive market category of personal photo printers. I learned, sadly, that they are only competing based on price and not a combination of price and quality. I printed several test photos which were shot at 5 megapixels with a Kodak DX7630 and was very disappointed with the results. The P315 has trouble with skin tones and dark colors. My family's photos rendered most everyone a reddish skin tone and our dark hair had absolutely no detail and looked, well, fuzzy. The photos were a little grainy and every area where the colors were not the primary shades but deeper greens, browns, blues were lacking detail in the extreme. I printed the exact same photos on the HP 375B with excellent results. The sales associates at Circuit City were so astonished, they asked if I could leave the two sets to demonstrate the differences in the two printers. The scroll through the SD card on the first...Read more

I've had this printer for over a year now and I LOVE it. You can't beat the price, and the quality of prints is great for my purposes. I use it to print lots of photos of my kids to put in calendars to give to family and friends, and the last print I made is as good as the first. If you want something more professional quality, I'm sure there are products out there with more bells and whistles. The only real drawback I've experienced is that it seems to go through ink like water, but I suspect that's not unusual for this sort of product. I highly recommend this printer.