OT/ PRINTER KODAK ESP-3

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE SEEN THE COMERCIALS FOR THE KODAK PRINTERS ! The adds that say their inkjets are only around ten dollars or so.

I do not think they are a bargin by any means. The nozzles get plugged, the print head needs cleaning, and often when you aren't paying real close attention, they will print with streaks, so you have to reprint after cleaning, and then aligning etc.

And for those who don't speak nerd, you must play with the symbols till you get it right. You simply have to laugh at what you will find if you click on one of them. The only thing easy to understand is how to order more inkjets--that pops up often, and in plain language.

The printer is real slow upon taking commands, and resets the defalts to color ink if you aren't on your toes, even after you reset them to B & W. Any distraction, and we are now printing in color again.

The paper catch tray had tiny hinges that broke off with a year end print out of less than 70 pages, (now I have to catch each page). It often mixes the page order by slipping a page under the other on the paper exit port.

A very inexpensive printer, but not a bargin.

Kodak used to mean made in USA, and good quality, now? not so much.

Thanks for posting. I was considering it, but uncertain because most stuff on those infomercials is junk. Good to hear from someone with actual experience, that confirms it. Guess I'll stick with my usual Hewlett Packard.

I had an interesting problem with a Kodak digital camera, once.

In doing insurance inspections, I don't show the date and time imprint on photos, but the company software retrieves the date and time embedded in the photo. I tried to upgrade to a Kodak camera from a SamSung. The first day out, I figured out the time in the imprint was not kicking over to "PM" until 1:00 pm instead of 12:00 noon.

Any photos I took between noon and 1:00 would say "AM" and appear to have been taken in the middle of the night. I called Kodak's techies and they insisted it must have been a problem with just one camera. Yeah, right. My money says the entire production run of that model camera had the same problem.

Walmart took the camera back and I upgraded to another SamSung. There was a time when traditional American brand names meant something.

I have a HP scaner and printer. Over the last three years I have used them for work on my Ancestry and it has been excellent. Old faded pictures come out great and clear. gitrib

I have a HP too and it works well with reasonably priced cartridges and easy to load. Don't like it printing a test page when you put in a new cartridge, I just figure that's wasting ink.
Had that pharmacy that advertises refills do some once and they seemed to run out too fast.

Canon Pixma printers (I have a 4200) are very sweet, don't plug up, duplex print, and take individual ink tanks that reduce throwing good ink away 15 or less per ctg. We have used Canon for thousands of prints. I would do no other. JimN

Last year for christmas I got my wife an Acer computer and a Cannon Pixma photo printer.That was thge worst printer I have ever had. Pure Junk. I then went and got her an HP and it makes the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen from a computer. She is an artist and uses the pictures to draw from sometimes. Shortly thereafter the computer quit working. Will not boot up. Back to HP next month for a new computer. Cannon cameras are great but the printers are J U N K . Henry

Over the years I have been well pleased with Hewlett Packard products. My HP 722C printer did an excellent job on any printing job. Over time the teeth on the head drive belt began to strip off so I bought the same model of printer from a seller on Ebay. Eventually the belt on it lost teeth as well. I finally dropped back to the inferior HP 690 printer because I could get them over Ebay so cheaply.

I finally got a new computer and they no longer have the large pin plugs so after much reading I purchased an HP Officejet printer with separate color cartridges. I usually ran out of magenta before the other colors so like the idea of changing out just one.

The printer takes a standard #88 or a #88XL ink cartridges which stands for extra large. I think the standard 88 has 5 ML of ink in them while the 88XL has 70 ML. SURPRISE, guess which I buy? One can also find genuine HP 88XL ones on Ebay to bring the printing price extra low. However before buying always check the expiration date for the cartridge.