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Kodak ESP 9250 Review

The Kodak ESP 9250 All-in-One Printer is the new top dog in Kodak multifunction printer (MFP) line, replacing the now discontinued ESP 9. It has a wealth of features that make it suitable for either a home or home office, or do a dual function between the two roles. Surprisingly good text quality as well as faxing and an automatic duplexer emphasize the home-office side, while photo-centric features make it a good fit on the home front.

The ESP 9250 prints, scans, copies and faxes, but also works as a standalone fax and copier. (The Kodak ESP 7520, which I recently tested, lacks fax capabilities.) It has the ability to print or scan to USB drives and memory cards and printing from PictBridge cameras as well.

An all-in-one feature proved problematic. You should be able to send an e-mail from the front of the printer scan by choosing what kind of computer you want to scan, select “Request” as your destination, initiating the scan, and then select the option to scan to your default email client. As was the case with the ESP 7250, I was not able to scan the unit to an Outlook 2003 message to get though Kodak says it must be compatible. In both cases, a Kodak engineer was unable to solve the problem.

The ESP 9250 is a handsome, coffee-brown MFP that measures 17 by 18 by 9 inches (HWD) and weighs 19.8 pounds. The tilt-up front panel includes a 2.4-inch LCD screen, an alphanumeric key, and a variety of physical buttons. The 100-sheet paper tray will limit its business to the rights to light in a home-office environment, unless you do not mind changes frequently and paper, but a 40-page tray for up to 5-by-7 photos are beautiful. A built-in automatic duplex unit is a plus. It has a 30-page automatic document feeder (ADF) for use with the scanner and copier.

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Setup was routine, with no major problems. We tested the 9250 on an Ethernet connection to a PC with 32-bit Windows Vista. (Kodak says that it comes with drivers for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7, Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later.) It has also 80211.n WiFi, as well as built USB connection to a computer. It has slots for memory cards in most standard formats and a slot that can be used with a USB key or a PictBridge camera.

For photos, quality is more important than speed. The 9250′s’s photo quality, but decent, was slightly below par for an inkjet MFP. While most could pass as quality drugstore, a couple of prints were found on the pale side or poor contrast, others showed posterization (sudden changes of color where they should be progressive).

The 9250 photo showed not very scratch resistant waterproof. The ink ran when they were exposed to water soon after printing, even for one day to dry prints showed some discoloration after water drops were dripped on them. The photos should be long-lived, however, Kodak claims a life expectancy of more than 100 years of photographs left in the open and more than 120 years in print framed under glass or in dark storage such as an album.

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The 9250 text quality was very good, especially for an inkjet. The majority of our test fonts were both well formed and easily readable at 6 points, with almost half easily readable at 5 points. None of the fonts with the exception of one highly stylized font with thick strokes needed more than 10 points are both well formed and easily readable, and even passed both thresholds at 12 points. The text must be suitable for every business needs, except for those who are a very small fonts.

Graphics, on the other hand, were on the low side of the narrow range in which almost all quality inkjet MFPs fall. Several images showed poor color fastness and were on the pale side. In a few cases, very thin lines showed breaks. A few other images showed signs of banding, faint patterns of straight lines or streaks, in a case, it was to the point where it was disturbing. The graphics were good enough for general business use, but whether you’d want to use 9250 for PowerPoint handouts, say, depends on how picky you are and who you plan to give them.

One plus is low Kodak claimed cost per page, only 3 cents per monochrome page and 8 cents per color page.

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Although Kodak ESP 9250 All-in-One 100-sheet main paper tray limits his business to use light home office, fax, connectivity, quality text and photo features make it a good fit for both micro firms or households, or both. It lacks the image quality of MFPs such as the Canon Pixma MG8120 and the speed of the Epson Artisan 835 (each cost $ 50 more than the 9250), but it’s a step up from the ESP 7250 and brings a well rounded feature set on the table.

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Kodak ESP 5250 AiO Printer Review

Kodak’s newest all-in-one printer, copier and scanner is a compact, attractive looking, machine a scanner, copier and photo quality printer combines a low ink costs with a good photo output and nice scans combine if you only need relatively small scans originals of your flat.

The ESP 5250 is between Kodak ESP 7 and ESP 5 All-in-one models in the range. The Kodak also continues the policy of charging that little bit more for the machine and less ink, Kodak claim the total cost of ownership, more than one year, a saving of ink to turn on approximately $80.

The 5250 is a neat and compact, black livery device with a beautiful 2.4-inch LCD screen and a large, clear front panel decorates the top unbuttoned. The 100-sheet paper tray at the front of the device, so papers are placed upside down, it was introduced and returned to the top of the blank, waiting paper.

Media guides can be moved to adjust for paper of various sizes simple, but if you paper on top of plain paper, the 5250 tended to be in plain paper to carry around with the photo, which is indeed very frustrating, so only a paper simultaneously.

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The printhead and a double, single and combined with five black color pigment-based inks slot home into an easily removable head, which sits under the scanner / copier glass. Once in place, the 5250 primes the ink and prints an automatic alignment sheet.

The software is easy to install (I tested the printer on my Mac G5 Intel laptop) and once up and running, connect to my Wi-Fi network was a simple case of selecting the connection method to the color of the 5250 screen, enter the password and that was it. Almost as easy as connecting via the USB connection, and like the other ESP I’ve tested in the range, this makes for a refreshing change.

The Direct Print panel is simple and the menus are clear and easy to follow so that the color copying, printing and scanning as a standalone device, or you can use the device from your computer to operate.

The included software ESP 5250 drivers are easy enough to follow the print dialogue for the printer easy to understand and 5250 can automatically select the print, depending on the type of paper. This certainly makes the machine easy to use for the less technical minded users out there, but you have manual controls on the print inside the advanced printer driver options.

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Kodak Ultra Premium Photo Paper is the best quality paper for the best photo printing, but you can “force” the printer to the higher quality settings, more ink will be used and may not be the best result depends on the specific media types .

Like other ESPs in the range, Kodak’s Dot replacement print mode ensures a better quality output on special paper that is provided you do not want to print borderless, as disappointing and like the other ESP, Dot replacement not support borderless printing. However, higher quality printing on the paper is excellent, Dot Replacement or not, but it’s a shame you can not access this setting for borderless prints.

One frustration of the dot replacement mode where I could choose to Dot replacement technology to use, even with the wrong paper (borderless) and it is only when the paper was fed into the printer that the error was picked up by the paper machine sensors and printer. At this point your attention to the incorrect paper selection and termination of the printing process spit the paper untouched.

However, the print on other, lesser, photo paper and drops quickly even the Premium photo paper with distracting visible dots, related to mottled white colored noise, within the normal paper. Printing text documents or images is excellent, however the text in search of a “laser-like” packaging graphics and a color punch.

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Copy quality left something to be desired when copied images are copied with blocky looking for dark areas like shadows. Text can be copied but, but scanning photos, offers print on photo quality settings that are presented in full detail and odd, magenta-looking casts.

In terms of print time, the claimed print speeds of 29 color pages per minute or a 6 x 4-inch photograph of about 29-seconds are only possible with lower quality settings on offer. An A4 print borderless photos took 13-minutes, while a 6 x 4-inch photos, including borderless, lasted 2 minutes and 39 seconds. Use the dot replacement technology, and the print length for a 6 x 4-inch print jumps to 7 minutes and a top quality A4 print approximately 17 minutes.

Scan speed and quality, like all times here will depend on the system you are using. But I was pleasantly surprised by scanning, which has just over 6 minutes scan (using Wi-Fi) on one A4 600ppi image to create a 89MB file. Scan quality is good (to optical 2400ppi) with faithful color and detail.

The scanner and copier is also very quiet as the pressure, although the prints are ready to do his thing, before a board to say, is a bit noisier.

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But there is one more possible killer, the cost of ownership. The ESP 5250 will cost a penny shy of $150, so not particularly cheap compared with some similar Lexmark models on the market. But the ink are 6.99 for the black cartridge and 9.99 for the five-color ink tank, which is what Kodak says you get the savings they claim.

Kodak claims this provides the lowest ink replacement cost in the industry “and you can save around $80 a year” compared to similar products from other manufacturers. Allowing the printer to print quality control systems to help these savings, but you get inferior prints. Set up the printer manually you have more ink than Kodak’s figures would suggest. So the cost of ownership varies how satisfied you are with the 5250′s print quality on lower specified documents and all automatic settings. Kodak figures show a black document will cost 1.6p per page, 6 x 4-inch photo costs 6.4p per print and color documents will cost 4.8p per page.

Conclusion

The Kodak ESP 5250 is a nicely made and easy to use all-in-one device, the ink cost is important in your purchase price, even if you see cheaper machines on the market, compare ink costs too. Some manufacturers’ devices cost less than a new set of inks for the same machine.

Print quality is good and so is the scanning quality, copies are just okay though. The ease of set-up impressed me, especially the wireless wave, which only took a few minutes. It is unfortunate that the printer is much slower than the claimed speeds using Kodak, at least for a reasonable photo printing and it is also frustrating is that you can not use replacement Dot borderless prints. Yet this is a fairly accomplished all-in-one device worthy of special attention.

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Kodak ESP Office 6150 Review

Kodak is making Multifunction for a few years now and although her entry was met with some fanfare, they have not yet ignited the industry. The newest model of them is more focused on the small to medium office.

The ESP Office 6150 is a well-specified device with Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections as standard. Like the regular print, copy and scan functions, the Kodak has a built-in fax, which can store 100 pages in memory and has a 10 number speed dial. The main paper drawer holds 200 A4 sheets and can print on both sides thanks to the built-in duplex unit. In addition to scanning unit has an automatic document feeder for batch scanning, copying and faxing.

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There is no card reader, but you can download an app for both the iPhone and Blackberry to print directly from mobile phones. There is a decent 2.4-inch LCD screen to change to manage and help the printer. The scanner has an optical resolution of 1200 dpi and can scan multiple sources simultaneously. For example, if you have four points on the scanning bed can intelligently crop and scan them in separate files.

Cheap ink is one of the attractions of the Kodak system. The ESP uses a 6150 all-in-one ink tank system with one color and one for black ink. The color ink is available for around £ 11.99, where the black tank is £ 7.99. Kodak claims that you can save about £ 50 years using the ink jet ink of a similar competitor.

Build quality is decent if not inspiring, the lid stores if you do not open all the way up, for example. Otherwise, the black and yellow color scheme is harmless and all the buttons respond well. The menus are easily recognizable by and options to get.

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Speed wise the Kodak is very cranky. A 6 x 4-inch photo in standard mode took only 39 seconds to arrive. A page of the draft text was ready in just 9 seconds and a 10 page document with a mixture of color images and text was printed in a shade under 4 minutes.

Output was not nearly as impressive, but with some lackluster and average text quality. Text is not as sharp as we would like and there was plenty of spare ink left around the characters. In draft mode, the problem is worse with jagged text and a lack of sharpness. Photos were ok, but lacked the color and vibrancy we’ve seen from other manufacturers.

Balance was good like detail, but in general images of the 6150 ESP just missed that bit of life. The combination of text and graphics document suffers from a lack of punch to the color and the average text quality.

Conclusion

If you’re in the market for a cheap to run an all-in-the Kodak certainly looks good in terms of ink tanks cost, but if you’re looking for a little quality even then there are alternatives that produce better. The ink tanks are of good quality and in terms of the specification and usefulness of the Kodak scores well, but the text and photo output is just not as good as the competition.

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Kodak ESP 7250 Printer Review

The latest inkjet manufacturer on the block, Kodak, the third generation reached its all-in-one ESP 7250 and builds on what has gone before. Kodak is a different marketing paradigm of most decision-makers, shop for everything his machines, but less – as you have noticed from its current advertising campaign – for the supplies.

The ESP 7250 is an essential, square machine with a black case and an all-silver front panel. The top is has a matrix of small, square wells and the front of a strongly curved textured paper tray module extending forward from it.

The lower of the two shells takes up to 100 sheets of A4 paper and the smaller compartment, above, up to 40 sheets of photo paper, 15 x 10 cm to 7 x 5in. The top drawer is in the machine, if you choose the smaller size and because it can auto-detect paper type, it’s pretty hard to confuse the machine.

The main control panel, which includes swings out from the front, a 2.4in LCD screen and surprisingly few other controls. A four-way, Silver Ring-button controls menu, there is a zoom toggle button to display photo thumbnails, two buttons labeled Home and Back, and two more to start and stop a copy or scan job.

On the lower right corner of the front are two slots for memory cards – which provide them for CompactFlash, SD, MemoryStick and xD cards – and a PictBridge connector also serves as a front port for USB drives.

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On the back are USB and Ethernet ports, but you can also use the machine wirelessly, which is the easiest option if you have a wireless router at hand. You must enter any wireless pass phrase with the key-ring, but otherwise it’s easy.

Drivers for Windows and OS X are provided and there is a front-end application called the AiO Home Center. This includes OCR software for scanning text and the process is painless when the Setup program tries to virtually everything offered by the CD, which can for a while on a slow broadband connection to update.

The two cartridges, one black and the other five-ink, clip into the top carrier easily and apart from the fact that you need to replace the entire color cartridge when has a single color is used up, the system is well designed. As well as the CMY colors, there is a photo black and a clear top coat.

With so many printer makers still insist on leaving the failed draft print speeds, we have decided to add a five-page draft document to our test suite. Kodak speeds of 32 pages per minute in black and claims 30 pages per minute in color. Our design-mode document adopted last 37 seconds, with a real rate of 8.1ppm draft, about a quarter of, that is alleged.

In normal print mode, we saw 4ppm from our 5-page text document and 4.8ppm from the 20-page one. The five-page text and color graphics test returned 2.9ppm. These speeds are quite slow for a modern all-in-one at this price, but the photo print times were some compensation. We printed 15 x 10 cm images from PC, SD card, PictBridge camera, USB drive and saw a best time of 38 seconds.

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The prints we produced were good, with plenty of sharp, bright detail, good natural colors and smooth transitions. The only place that had ESP 7250 has been downward in reproductive shaded detail, where a lot of black came out too much.

Color printing on plain paper is smooth and although colors may be a little paler than originals, including color copies come through clearly and close to the originals. There is a small amount of halo formation around text on a colored background, but it is only superficial.

Black text is clean and well-developed and draft-mode text is a good deal better than the dot matrix-style sign that many inkjet printers give more.

Perhaps the most bizarre result from our printer tests was when we came to duplex printing. An automatic two-sided printing is standard, but if you print two-sided, select the driver, the page size is reduced from around 7.5 percent. Text and graphics are all reduced in size, with little consideration of the settings in your word processor. This was done under both OS X and Windows, with different drivers.

Kodak claims a lot for its low operating costs, and this is confirmed from our calculations. We charge a black page costs 2.1p, and a color page costs 4.4p, 0.7p both with the paper. These are low, even for an inkjet printer, where, contrary to popular belief, the cost of printing a page often lower than a comparable laser printer.

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Conclusion

In general, the Kodak ESP 7250 offers good print quality at low cost, in a simple and automated. It is not a particularly fast machine, though, and the strange grinding, if you select Duplex printing is something that must be either corrected or was when our setup error, further explanation in the manual of the printer.

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