Kodak ESP 7 review

Ink usage

This product is sold as the least expensive ink user on the market. I've managed about a dozen b&w sheets and a couple of colour images from £16 of cartridges. It appears to use ink everytime I switch on my PC, which automatically switches on the printer. Is this normal? If start up uses ink, do I really have to unplug the machine after every use to conserve ink? Comments appreciated.

By poppysmate on 6 Oct 2009

Ink usage and colour

I have recently bought this all in one printer, I like poppysmate, am disappointed with the small amount of sheets I get from my ink cartridges. I bought this printer as had a HP previously and the price of the inks was ridiculous, but now I am finding that I am buying inks for this Kodak more often than I did for the HP. Also the colour quality is awful, I am with Virgin for my phone and broadband, and when I print my bill, the Virgin logo comes out pink or lilac and not red. All in all I am very disappointed with this printer, I paid £175 for it 3 months ago from Comet. Can I just ask why Kodak decided not to include an instruction manual with it, they expect you to go on line and print it off (more ink used).

Catwoman.

By catwoman on 7 Oct 2009

Expensive to run & poor wi fi implementation

I've had this printer for over a year, and at several points when nothing has changed with my setup the wi fi stops working - the software was poorly implemented and this has shown through multiple updates being required to make it work. I feel like I've beta tested it.

Also although the ink is cheap it lasts far less time than my old HP printer, so I think it works out more expensive. Scanning is slow too.

And lastly it doesn't support Airprint, nor is there any indication from the company it will, so I'm going back to HP.

On the plus side, it looks great, and hides the paper well. Good design for sure.

By sach160 on 16 Sep 2011