Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
Posted by Notcot on Sep 23, 2010 in Peripherals & Accessories |
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Good
- Small footprint
- Clean, elegant design
- Cheap inks
- Does what it says (eventually)
- Wifi Printing great for laptop
Not so good
- Astonishingly noisy in operation
- Wifi not simple to get runnning
- Bloated software required
- Paper feed path results in stuff dropping onto the floor
This seemed like a great idea, but in practice has turned out to be more hassle than benefit. The USB ports on my PC died recently so being able to print via Wifi should have been a lifeline. Well – no, as it turns out.
I’m moderately technically literate and quite used to having to nurture things along, but this ended up being more grief than it’s worth. The printer seems OK – noisy, but does the job, and I quite like the small form – but ultimately the challenge of getting it to connect and the poor software was too much. It comes with what seems very bloated and lazily assembled software – lots of big, Kodak graphics bolted onto a background process from Apple. The latter’s “bonjour” service managed to freeze my system at one point. You might not have this problem, of course – systems vary.
When connected, it works OK – scans and prints fine for everyday purposes. However, even when linked the wifi seemed temperamental despite having a strong signal: something we’d forgotten we’d tried to print suddenly kicked off about three hours later, sounding like a jet arriving in the room (see earlier comment above about noise – really surprisingly loud – not one to use if you want a quiet environment).
Having run out of patience getting it to work reliably we’ve given up and are back to using our much uglier – and more expensive – Espon, connected via USB. It was easier to add a new USB card to the PC than to get this Kodak printer running – which maybe says something good about Hewlett Packard.
Of course, different users and different set-ups will have different experiences, but for me the flaws here outweigh any benefits.
In all, sorry Kodak, but I can’t recommend this.
Rating: 2 / 5
After reading many good reviews on lots of different sites and seeing that the product visually looked good I decided to buy the Kodak Easyshare 5250 Wireless All-In-One Printer. When I first got it home it connected very easily to my Windows 7 PC and was able to do all three functions although another PC running Windows XP couldn’t connect to it at all and couldn’t print or scan.
Two days later the wifi stopped working on the printer/scanner although my internet/wifi connection at home and was working fine. Shortly afterwards the scanner stopped working completely.
I spent hours searching for fixes online and 3 hours waiting in endless queues to speak to Kodak customer services online (after being put through to 3 incorrect departments) – they were utterly useless and told me to phone them “…because it’s easier” for them. So I phoned them and waited in a queue to speak to someone who, after queuing for 2 hours, told me it was “…probably busted mate” and “…i’d get a new one if I was you”.
So I did, I got my money refunded and opted for a Epsom Stylus SX515W all-in-one and this has been working perfectly ever since. Do you want my advice? Save your money and go buy something else that isn’t made by Kodak, because;
* this all-in-one is cheaply made and breaks down easily
* if something does go wrong the you will wait hours in a queue to speak to someone and will probably be put through to the wrong department more than once
* when you do get through, the customer service department wouldn’t know good customer service if it bit them on the bottom and they really couldn’t care less whether you buy this or another make
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this printer on the basis of the cheap ink prices. I’m not a fan of non original inks so the much advertised ‘less than £19′ to replace both inks with originals sold this product to me.
Cheap inks are fine. Cheap looking prints aren’t. I’m pretty serious about my photography and like to print at A4 size most of the time. I’ve wasted some expensive photo paper trying to get this printer to turn out something half decent. I failed miserably.
The wheels that feed the paper through the printer leave 4 equally spaced drag marks on the photo surface where they’ve ploughed through the wet ink!! My printer would only print borderless on 3 sides of the photo – no matter what paper size I set it up for, the trailing edge of the paper to be printed had a quarter inch white band left unprinted.
In summary – buy something else. I opted for a Canon MP560 and am delighted with the results. Definitely a case of ‘you get what you pay for’.
Rating: 1 / 5
Bought this product but it has gone back faulty due to print head problems, which are very very common. Kodak customer services very keen to send new print heads without any real hassle, so why not provide a couple in the box? No way I want this as the downtime is Inconvenient to say the least. Its noisy, the wireless is flakey and the build quality is very cheap.
If you look back at the reviews of the ESP 5 and ESP 3 (last years models – identical build)
Kodak ESP-5 All-In-One Printer, Copier and Scanner Kodak ESP-3 All-in-One Printer, Copier and Scanner you will see some scathing reviews, and no good reviews under 6 months old . Look before you buy.
I have a Canon now and it works just fine thank you. Oh and by the way if you look down through the reviews it appears the advertised savings are a joke as well.
Rating: 1 / 5
After lots of researching – I decided on investing in a “print and prosper” kodak printer. This model fit all my requirements as it both prints and scans and is wireless. The biggest attraction being the low cost ink. I’m not the most technical minded of people – but setting it up took 30 minutes and was a doddle!! Read the instructions and did exactly what it told me to, and I had no trouble whatsover (took 2 attempts to find my router). Have had a little play with printing off photos and lightening them, and also scanned a few old photos as well. Dead simple – very well laid out and quick!! The only downside I can find so far is that it is noisy – but then unless you intend to use it when everyone else in the house is asleep whats the problem with that!
Rating: 5 / 5