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I’ve synced the evernote with my online Lexmark account, and it successfully added the Evernote icon to my printer.

But when I click it, I’m asked to set up an email account. I’ve tried twice to set up my email account, using the settings I have from my email client to no avail.

Is there help anywhere here?
@TomMartin

Since the printer has a five-year warranty, I’m told they will simply give you a store credit after your third issue. This is now my third issue, as tech support sent me an 805 by mistake. I must say, this has been a really frustrating experience. I’m ready to switch to a ScanSnap.

Setup was very lengthy and complicated. I could not get Gmail (Google Apps version) to function as the ISP but was able to get Comcast setup as ISP easily. Comcast has a 10MB limit on email attachments – I found this out when the printer hung if I tried to send an 8.5 x 11 600DPI JPG which was exceeds 10MB in size.

After spending hours of setting up (including over 2 hours with tech support to resolve a minor manufacturing defect), the printer now works well in most ways. But, if you’re getting this specifically for Evernote, you should know up front that:

1) The Evernote smartsolution is actually less functional than the generic Email smartsolution, because it doesn’t allow specifying the subject (which helps if you want to use # or @ in subject line). The only thing that the Evernote smartsolution gets you over the regular Email smartsolution is the Evernote icon. In other words – no Evernote integration was ever needed – you just set up a “Scan to Email” smartsolution with your Evernote email address. “Scan to Email” is by far the best smartsolution and the killer feature that makes this platform interesting at the moment.

2) OCR is not yet integrated into a smartsolution that allows you to email directly to Evernote with the touch of a button. There IS a way to do OCR and then get it to Evernote but it involves multiple steps currently:

a) You must first load the OCR software from the included CD onto your Windows machine (or buy OCR software if you have a Mac).
b) set up a smartsolution for “Scan to PDF.” You’ll need to specify a folder location on a machine that has OCR software installed.
c) Set up Evernote to automatically import files that show up in this folder.
d) When your computer (with OCR software) is on, you can now scan to PDF (with searchable text) with the touch of a button – and it will end up in the directory you specified. Assuming you properly set up Evernote import, it will pull in the PDF file.

3) There is another way to do OCR scans but it involves multiple button presses and also gives you the flexibility to specify the file type – PDF, RTF, TXT, or XLS.

The Lexmark idea is a very good one, but the current implementation involves a lot of setup complication – both for smartsolutions and for the printer itself (delicate printhead/cartridge installation). As Lexmark rolls out additional smartsolutions, some of the things I described above should become easier to set up and customize.