User Reviews on Kodak ESP 5210

avoid like the plague

1/10

Mervinh

24th September 2011

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

Oh dear....

2/10

ijhodgson

26th April 2011

Bought this printer for working at home - wi-fi and cheap ink cartridges major selling points for this product. After a couple of days, realised that these two selling points are also the product's major downsides. So, wi-fi drops constantly, and the black ink cartridge prints around 25 pages before showing empty, which means another 7 quid (around 10 USD) for another one. This is cheap of course, but a user ends up spending just as much on ink :)

I was disappointed, and the provided software (which soaks up another few hundred MB on your hard drive) is unfriendly and non-intuitive.

Note for Mac users - it you try and update your software, on download the Kodak site compresses the file using 'Springy'. As the file is around 70mb compressed, unless you have a paid registration with Springy, you can't unpack the file. The way around is to download some other software, but surely Kodak should use a method that is easy and doesn't mean users struggling to find some way of using their software for equipment we've already paid for?

Print quality is average...but not sparkling.

I don't recommend this product. Too many minuses.