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Rhubarb

3:53 PM on 15 December, 2009

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Kodak currently has an F rating with BBB because of unanswered complaints about this printer. There are numerous web entries complaining about jams and print quality. HP has even launched a site criticizing the Kodak claims of economy and quality. This review does not appear to be very truthful.

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slypuss

11:00 PM on 26 January, 2010

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I agree with the last comment ... bought this printer, terrible photo quality, yellow ink never seemed to come through, had to clean heads after EVERY photo just to get it right, then of course ink would run out .. took it back and complained. Was given a replacement but got constant slipping or jamming of paper .. took 2 hours to print one page document for uni, and that was still only semi straight, by this time i was on my third ink cartridge and almost out of paper. gggot my money back next day and went back to my old printer, ink id dearer but tbh i wasted so much time, paper and ink just trying to get this to work it was ridiculous

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Alex26

4:01 PM on 6 April, 2010

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When I try to print anything the printer disconnects and does not reconnect until I have cancelled the print job. This is the latest in a long line of problems going back over a month.

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Zorb

4:43 PM on 29 June, 2010

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Wow, these last reviews seem a bit over the top. I can't say my machine is 100% stellar, but it is a good all around unit. Photo quality is better than you would expect for an inexpensive unit, ink usage seems about right for the side of the cartridge. Have run almost 50 A4 photos in full page, as well as about the same number of 150x100mm and have used two cartridges. This is very good, especially for the price.

Certain background colors do produce banding, but Kodak has had about 5 firmware updates since I got this thing and they have all improved printing behavior. For example, I had an issue with it going offline after an automatic cleaning cycle following a large number of prints. This is now fixed. I had a little bit of a magenta de-emphasis resulting in a green bias in some prints, now this is vastly improved as of the second to the last update.

My point is, you are partially getting what you pay for. It costs little to buy, costs almost nothing to operate, does a lot of things well. Don't ask for perfection for $89 US.

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Stu3

10:28 AM on 17 August, 2010

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I just brought this printer at the weekend and for the money I cant see where you can go wrong. The photo print quality is fantastic for the money, this is a £70 printer with cheap ink and Kodak paper is not that expensive. Yes it is not fast, and I have had none of the paper issues in the previous comments. I would recommend this printer as a cheap home photo printer a good quality of print as long as you stick with Kodak ink and Kodak paper.

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AgeingHippy

9:15 PM on 19 November, 2010

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We have had this printer for about a year and have very low useage; we use a different printer for photos. We have been very surprised by the number of cartriges we have gone through, especially since it was advertised as being cheap to run. The coloured ink has run out at present but it will not print a black copy until it has been replaced. The cartridge also has to be replaced when only one colour has run out. I have tried refilling the cartridge with compatible inks which is fairly straight forward but it still thinks the cartridge is empty because of the chip and still won't work. I am now considering buying a different printer as it is far more expensive to run than we anticipated, and more costly to run than our previous printer.

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smudge310

9:36 AM on 20 November, 2010

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My wife runs 2 businesses as well as being Secretary of the local community radio station so as you can image we go through a lot of ink. So when we were looking for a new printer the low cost of the kodak ink cartridges was very attractive.

What a con! I dont think I can add more to what has already been written about this printer. We have been using PC's (now MAC's) for the past 20 years so we have used a few printers and to be honest this is the worst one. We will be now going back to HP, at least their printers work!

Although the ink is cheap, they are so small (especially the black!) that you are forever changing them, then we are always getting ERROR CODE 3820 "Print Head Failure" after a few months!!

It also decides when it wants to print, not you. You send something and nothing happens, then about 5-10 mins later the print springs to life....no reason!!

and finally the print quality is rubbish, one of the poorest I've seen. We needed to print off some flyers for a radio presentation and the main part of out logo is red. On the screen it look very vibrant (pillar box red) but when printed, on good quality paper, it was faded. It look like a draft print! CRAP!

AVOID, DONT BUY. GET A HP INSTEAD. IT MAY COST MORE INITIALLY BUT IT WILL BE WORTH IT!

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Elvina

12:21 PM on 25 January, 2011

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Our Brother printer which had served us well got damaged and as we had the Kodak ESP3250 on The Gadget Show where it got excellent reviews we thought we would give it a go. Less than 5 months later we are now waiting for the delivery of our third, yes 3rd, one. Our original stopped printing anything on the paper, first they replaced the print head, then software update and then a new printer and still we have the same problem. The 3rd one is now on its way but I dont hold out much hope!

Another problem is that these are meant to be excellent with ink consumption. They are TERRIBLE. Apparently every time you turn them on they use ink before they even print anything and I have heard comments that its anywhere between 1 and 3%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have printed no more than 50 A4 pages with the blank ink and yet it has supposedly run out even though its an XL cartridge and we havent printed anything in 2 weeks. When we checked ink levels 2 weeks ago we have nearly 50% black ink and since then havent printed anything but have turned it on and off a lot due to trying to get it to work and amazingly without a single letter being printed the ink has gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kodak have advised us to leave it on all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So much for reducing energy consumption not to mention low ink usage.

Yet another problem is that you dont know that the ink is getting low till it runs out. You get no warning message, just a message to say its run out and then it wont print another page till you get replacement ink. Kodak say that they are "trying to remedy this".

All in all I would NOT recommend this printer to anyone. If you are considering one dont bother. ..

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old409

6:38 PM on 18 May, 2011

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I bought two ESP3250 printer. One has been replaced once, the other has been replaced twice and the replacement doesn't work.

They constantly show paper jam and there's no jam and there is no jam. The ink is cheap but both my printers are very hard on ink usage, the worst ink users I've ever had.

I don't see how anything that doesn't work any better than these Kodak printers could get such a good rating. The two ESP 3250 printers I bought are junk, nothing but problems since I took them out of the box. My old Lexmark printers were no problem at all and they didn't use half the ink these Kodaks use. I could cry every time I think I switched them out for this Kodak junk.

I'll be getting rid of both my Kodak printers and going back to cheap Lexmarks.

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GinaMolyneux

9:37 AM on 10 September, 2011

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What a load of rubbish, very poor quality prints, ink doesn't last 5 minutes. machine shows ink needs replacing even after installing a new cartridge, I returned 2 machines to Kodak each time supposedly being sent a new replacement only to find they were reconditioned. One of these was also faulty. I would never buy kodak again.

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Seabiscuit

6:48 PM on 16 November, 2011

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This is an expensive item, therfore SLOW printing and command problems shouldn't arise. The real sneaky extra cost is that it won't work without both a black and white AND colour cartridge. Unless kodak are selling cartridges that are actually empty , this one persists in displaying 'colour cartridge needs replacing' even though I've put two different full ones in- and in the meantime it refuses to do anything. DO NOT BUY . I have to replace it . Lesson learnt , get separate b+w and colour printers, and a separate scanner. The all-in-one makers are bluffing - and ripping us off...

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It's more of the same, really, with the ESP 3250. There are good and bad elements to this machine, as with the other Kodak ESPs. Print quality is fair, without being spectacular, print speeds are average, though with unrealistic claims and running costs really are cheaper than from similarly-priced alternatives. The colour LCD monitor is worth the extra £10 over the cost of the ESP 3, because of the extra convenience when selecting photos to print.

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8/10

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Reviewed by Simon Williams

28 October 2009

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£62.02

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