Kodak ESP - any views?

[RCC]

I am fed up with Epson, after many years and 3 generations of their
printers. Ink has gone from expensive to ludicrous and they seem to
'lock up' in an empty state very readily and with plenty of ink left in
the cartridge.

My wife and I both work from home, although we don't print massive
amounts, I guess we get through a set of cartridges every 4 weeks or so
- so at current prices that's a lot.

I currently have a D120 run on a network and a Dx8400 on my desktop PC,
both as general use machines, mostly text (some of which needs to be
high quality, which they can achieve on the text+image setting) and the
odd photo.

I am thinking of buying a Kodak ESP7 with wireless networking to replace
them both, does anyone have experience of Kodak printers or views on
this? (I am in UK).

Thanks

 

[Kirk Bubul]

I am fed up with Epson, after many years and 3 generations of their
printers. Ink has gone from expensive to ludicrous and they seem to
'lock up' in an empty state very readily and with plenty of ink left in
the cartridge.

I have owned two Epsons since 1995, the most "recent" being a 740
bought in 1999 that I have to replace the cartridges on every 6 months
- gives you an idea of the extent of my printer use.

I bought and started using an ESP 5 in late December. It barreled
through the first set of carts at more than twice as fast as the Epson
(i.e., the ink lasted less than half the time at half the cost - a
wash). I changed carts in late April. About a month and very few
prints later, the print head went on the fritz. Got a new one under
warranty, but NO mention of replacing the barely-used carts. (Of
course I first tried inserting a new set of carts - the 3rd set on
this AIO - before thinking that the printhead was bad.)

So I'm ambivalent about my ESP 5. I think that if I had it to do over
again, I'd get a AIO from HP. I was honked off at Epson for chipping
their carts, but the Kodak just isn't as good, I think.

 

[Bob AZ]

I am thinking of buying a Kodak ESP7 with wireless networking to replace
them both, does anyone have experience of Kodak printers or views on
this? (I am in UK).

Thanks

Richard

I am not in love with Epson or any of the printer folks but I have 3
Epsons that I use a lot. 8� X 11. Ink costs are moderate. At $90.00a
cartridge, 220 ml per cartridge and 8 cartridges in the printer I have
a real good feel for the cost of ink. I keep close tabs on ink cost
and use about 1 milliliter per print. Printing 100 prints or more a
week gives me a lot of basis for ink costs. Sometimes many more than
100 prints a week.

So keep with Epson, get the better printers that have bigger
cartridges and ink cost will drop drastically. For example Epaosn
3880, 2400 etc

Bob AZ

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Am I mistaken that the 2400 printer uses relatively small cartridges if
one doesn't add a CIS?


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