Maybe Kodak should stay with Cameras and stay out of the printer business. Printed and copied 20 pages the first day, 2nd day paper jam code. There is no paper jam and after several attempts to clear the code it still will not clear. What a piece of junk!
I started a small business and purchased a Kodak ESP 5210. The first few days that I used it everything was great so I decided to buy a second one. After several day's of using the printers I have had nothing but problems with both of them. I have had to reinstall the software into my computer on several occasions and one of them is not working anymore. I do NOT recommend this printer to anyone.
The Kodak ESP 5210 is absolutely the worst printer I have ever bought. For the first couple of weeks it worked ok, although heavy on cartridges, after that it has just been a nightmare. It gobbles ink cartridges, continually misfeeds paper (so you can end up printing three/four copies of a document before getting a semi-decent version). BE WARNED - DO NOT PURCHASE ONE !!!!!
Don't touch it, or any other Kodak printer if you are buying on the basis of perceived ink savings.
Like many others, I bought the Kodak 5210 based on advertising and promotion about ink price. Kodak incessantly rabbits on about being the lowest price ink replacement with comments on its advertising saying "Print and Prosper" and "Beautifully Cheap Printing". What they don't tell you is that they consume way too much ink, that you cannot use the printer if one of the cartridges fails or if you replace one cartridge, you inevitably have to replace both of them. Don't be misled by their cleverly manipulated advertising.
I don't usually write reviews, so this is the exception. I've got the Kodak ESP 5250, essentially the same as the 5210 on this page. AVOID this series of printers: * It DRINKS INK like no-one's business. Yes the replacements are cheap, but the cost mounts up. I've even taken to writing the date on the print cartridges to remind me when I put a replacement in –it's not long between replacements and I'm not a heavy user of the printer. * WIFI is hit and miss. Now there could be other factors, such as home network issues. But there are too many times when the printer hangs and/or I have to kill the Kodak processes to get the printer to do anything. I have the latest software updates too. * Print quality. Was fine to start, but soon deteriorated. Print output is usable, but you may have to print a few times in different quality settings to get the output you need. * Scanning. Again hit and miss. Sometimes it scans first time, other times the scanner will only work after it has been switched off and back on.
It's 2012. There's been 20+ years to perfect printers. The ESP should just work. First time, every time. I'm afraid I won't be buying another Kodak printer. And I suspect I'll be buying another printer within a year of purchasing this one. Very annoying.
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after emailing twice about print quality and grabbing multiple sheets of paper and receivng no reply i phone the helpline barely comprehensible person on the other end finally decided to send new unit without printhead, received new 5250 unit fitted head and cartriges, it woul not connect too wifi in spite of many tries and using chat help, and print quality is still terrible
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avoid like the plague
24th September 2011, By Mervinh
after emailing twice about print quality and grabbing multiple sheets of paper and receivng no reply i phone the helpline barely comprehensible person on the other end finally decided to send new unit without printhead, received new 5250 unit fitted head and cartriges, it woul not connect too wifi in spite of many tries and using chat help, and print quality is still terrible
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