PC Magazine recently posted their review the Lexmark P350 compact photo printer and they get it surprisingly good marks. It wasn’t like the greatest review ever, but to have a Lexmark photo printer that gets any type positive feedback is pretty surprising.

The P350 is a followup to the P315 photo printer, which PC Magazine said was a disaster. Supposedly the P350 is better in every way than its predecessor. For starters, it comes with a single color ink cartridge, which is usually a bad idea. It isn’t mentioned in the PC Magazine review, but having just a color ink cartridge drastically raises the cost per print. Granted, with a compact photo printer like this you don’t really have an option, but having to use the color cartridge to also produce black really drains it. Moving on…like with the P315, you buy a packet that has paper and a cartridge. You can buy them separately, but that will cost you more. The P350 has all the usual connectivity options that standalone printers have like memory card slots and what not. It comes with a 2.4″ LCD and can print a regular 4 x 6 photo in about 90 seconds.

The main problem they had with it was that the gloss did not come out even on prints. This meant that the appearance of a photo could change based on what angle you looked at it from. Other than that, they didn’t really find any big faults with it. It was a little slower and more expensive than the HP Photosmart A516, which was one of their Editor’s Choice winners. If you have the option, it would probably be better to go with HP just because in general, they make better printers than Lexmark.