>Truth about Kodak printers and ink savings
on March 22, 2009 at 5:59 am>Looking for Kodak printer testimonials, new Kodack ESP reviews, Kodac printers and black and color pigment ink consumer feedback? Is it possible? Or too good to be true?
Wow, how about those Kodak ESP infommericals?! Richard Karn is the new spokesman. The $99.00 unit package was popular, they now have to sell the next unit up, for $199. Yeah, but still, the Kodak black and color cartridges are bigger and so cheap! And you don’t have to be Bill Gates to use it. Finally, Kodak gets it… a cheap printer and cheap ink — that’s what smart, thrifty Americans really want. Even Staples thinks so (the new retailer selling Kodak printers and ink). But wait.
Here’s a real review from one user expert about the Kodack ESP printers pros and cons:
http://www.coolest-reviews.com/200811/kodak-esp-5-review.htm
Do you trust reviews or trust your wallet? Get what you pay for. For $200, there are more quality printers you can buy off the shelve right now, sell pigment inks (most quality manufactures already use pigment ink) and they’re cheaper than Kodak’s if you buy online in bulk, like at THIS SITE. Most with free shipping.
Folks ask me all the time, what’s the cheapest way to print inkjet color long-term? Printing is like toilet paper… you’ll always need it. BUY IN BULK for the BEST ‘cost-per-page’ savings. Buy premium (coated) paper by the case, buy twin or quad packs of inks, recycle (refill) the cartridges. Use the ink until the pages go blank (ignore software warnings ink is low or out)… my HP prints easily an extra 200 pages in draft mode (600DPI-great texts output with premium paper) long after the printer says OUT OF INK. It’s not a car, you can drive it to bone dry.
Yes, this is just one opinion. Do your homework elsewhere, too. For the same prices Kodacks ESP is charging, bang for buck, you have higher quality options at your nearby office supply store–with business perks discounts, in-store savings, etc. Agree? Disagree? Please comment below. BTW: Kodak misspellings above are on purpose… for search engines ;-D
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>Have owned ESP 7 now for about 2 years … bottom line will never own another Kodak Printer.
1) previous comments about low on ink you can NOT do ANYTHING. Late one night needed to scan some very important docs to attach to email but could not use scanner because low on color ink ( what the $%^&% does scanning have to do with ink level) … confirmed with Kodak tech via phone, he said in very broken English "Kodak does not want you to accidentally print low quality on one of their printers" … no kidding could not make him understand that scanning to a file had nothing to do with printing
2) I do very little color printing yet my color ink runs out regularly …. but that printer sure does a lot of preparing to print … wonder where the color ink is going
3) this printer is ALWAYS preparing to print (noises, print head moving, etc.) …. reminds me of Windows "shutdown, preparing to shutdown, getting ready to shutdown, saving files to shutdown, almost shutdown, close to shutdown, ok I will shutdown"
>One should remember that Kodak's business model has always been cheap units, [cameras, etc] and expensive supplies, [film, cartridges, etc..]. Now, the expendable supplies have limited use and one is forced to purchase more at an earlier time….same business model as before only more rigid…
>this kodak printer SUCKS! do NOT buy! not worth it. ink runs out so fast its not worth the price and like someone else said NOTHING works when one ink gets low. my color gets low i can't choose black and white only, can't even scan pic onto the harddrive even though it has NOTHING to do with ink. they also have a preset number of prints per cartrige via a chip in the cartridge so your cartrige can very well have ink but you have used the number of preset prints and its IN THE TRASH so much for eco friendly, because of this chip you can't even get the ink refilled. the reason it is so cheap is because the cartrige itself doesn't have a print head like most inks do. the ink head is in the printer which means it will need to be replaced OFTEN which costs $$$ so much for cheaper! i sooo regret buying this and i will spread the word on every site and blog i can.
>Thanks Andy, people should be asking if this is “too good to be true.” The Kodak ads make big promises but does the math add up? Find out here http://www.hp.com/go/thetruthaboutprinting
Great tips on how to get the most value out of your printer. And you’re right, HP doesn’t lock out users from printing even after the low-ink alert pops up.
Anonymous, your HP just called and it misses you too 🙂
Print responsibly.
Thom
HP
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>I have a printer like that, that shuts down if one of the 7 cartridges runs low or out..it’s an epson but I love my epson, but I’m one of those eco-friendly don’t print if you can help it kind of people…so I only use it if I absolutely have to thank goodness
>You’ll love this: Once one of the cartridges runs out of ink, the whole printer shuts down until the empty cartridge is replaced. The scanner stopped working and nothing would print. I don’t know if that’s the case with all these printers, but that’s what happened to mine. Be sure you have plenty of extra cartridges. Save money one way, pay through the nose in another way. I guess there’s really no cheap printers out there that can do a decent job. Quantity doesn’t mean quality. Yep. Get what you pay for. I miss my HP.