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Sell Kodak ESP C310 All-In-One WiFi Printer for Print, Copy and Scan – Review
- All in One
- 9600 optimized DPI
- A4
- 6ipm Black/4ipm Colour
Looking for an affordable, easy to use all-in-one printer that uses high-quality, low-cost ink cartridges? Check out the KODAK ESP C310 All-in-One Printer, complete with a sleek, new compact design that includes an easy-to-use rear feed paper tray. The C310 Printer features an easy Wi-Fi setup to effortlessly connect to your wireless home network, and works with our expanded line of pigment-based KODAK 30 Series Ink Cartridges. KODAK Ink Cartridges continue to offer the lowest total ink replacem
List Price: £79.99
Very Good, Very Complicated!,
As you may have noticed there are quite a few reviews for this printer – and they are completely bi-polar -it’s the Marmite printer of Amazon! one thing I noticed before I bought it was that nobody was complaining that it broke down – that was the main thing for me having just got rid of an epson printer that would only recognise half the cartridges you bought it. I can confirm this – it’s done a few months now, and as were on the Christmas break thought I’d report back – no problems what-so ever with this printer, just keep on trucking no matter what (there’s not really a lot of “what” for printers I gues, but we got a new laptop at Christmas!)
You really want to know about the ink costs don’t you? well I can only compare it to my old Epson, and can confirm it does outlast it, we replace the black every other month and are on our second colour. That said don’t expect miracles – it’s a printer; ink is needed to print and I’d imagine it’s at best 10% more efficient? It will not pay for itself in ink or save you enough money to buy a tropical island. It’s more efficient, but if your printing was costing you a bomb before, it still will – you’ll just save enough to get a starbucks while it handles it’s print load.
To address a lot of the Wi-Fi stuff here – I’ve not had this, I’ve tested it around our home and all I can think of is that people forget that a wireless printer does not connect to your computer, but rather the wireless router, which your computer also connects to, so it doesn’t matter how close your computer and printer are, rather your printer and router. This is the only real usage downside of this printer – poor broadcast strength; with the router on top of the printer it can still only detect 90% signal! I’ve moved the printer all around the house, but realistically it needs to be in the same room as the router, it worked for me in adjacent rooms and the room directly above the router just fine also, but router in the back downstairs room, printer in the front upstairs room was a no-go!
Just to confirm it does work with mac – I’m using it on Tiger and Lion via airport with no issues – though Tiger was a pain because of the powerpc!(to be fair it does say Leopard and later!) No problems with Lion, though you don’t get the full range of software you do for Windows which is a little disappointing – I feel they shouldn’t plaster mac all over the box if they aren’t going to port all the toys over! But that said all the actual features of the printer work just fine.
As many have said setting it up is about as much fun as passing time by counting all the letter E’s in a copy of the yellow pages, but it’s not too difficult, However plug and play it ain’t! I would say about half an hour to 45 mins to install the cd, I can’t quite remember exactly, then the fantastic email set up , oh an hour or so? Just to save you some time, don’t connect it via USB if you have a wireless router – not even to the computer sat right next to it, this just makes setting up the printer’s email account even more annoying!
One tip on the email feature (I absolutely love this, just attach and email to the printer!) when you get the Kodak account set up, restrict email printing to just the email addresses you specify – sooner or later you will get spam that YOU have to pay to print otherwise! Still cant quite believe my printer has it’s own email address…
Anyway as a printer it’s excellent – the quality you associate with the name! if you’re going to print photos buy proper photo paper, and it does a grand job, copying is effortless and scanning (has there ever been a problem with scanning?!) works just fine. The devil really is in the set up, once it’s up and running it’s amazing, and I love the low fade inks! no more leaving a stack of papers in the sun and the top page has gone from black to purple (EPSON!) It’s very hard to rave about a printer, lets face it as long as it does what we want we ignore it, if it doesn’t we shout swear then drop it off at the tip!
a thought for the future – it comes with a replaceable print head, so when, as has happened to around half my printers dried ink collection starts to clog the print head, you should just be able to replace the print head not the printer!
I’d definitely buy another and recommend it.
5 stars for the printer
3 stars for the installation and documentation, so four over all!
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|first class,
Thankyou Amazon, first class service, this product was here on the button, very easy to set up and the WiFi , Is number One,the printer is very quite and it works better than the Canon IS2705 i had before,Kodak ink is much cheaper too, Regards to all NIGEL
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|kodak esp5250,
good printer cheap easy to use and set up i have seen many good reviws and a few bad ones i found them mostly down to user or software/network error.
Me and 2 freinds have this printer and are all happy with it. The ink is cheap and the printer does wot it says on the tin and it works fine wireless too.
I do reccomend buying the kodak photo paper for better quality photo prints as the age old saying you get wot you pay for.
You can also print on daft which quality is ok for most document or letters in my oppinion this will help you use less ink.
Happy printing peeps
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