
I thought about writing a review right after getting this printer because I was so disappointed with the support for drivers, but it is good to have waited and have more information.
First off, if you are trying to save money and you are using an older system, like say Windows 2000 or 98, forget this printer. They simple don't support it and are not intending to. Also they will not be supporting Linux any time soon. I have a Linux computer and a Windows 2000 computer neither can use this printer. I ended up hooking it to my sons WinXP system and have to either send or network to print anything from the other two computers. I wrote Kodak and they gave me the standard response of "we do not support ... Operating System at this time. They have been saying that since the printer came out according to the blogs.
Next, 4 months after getting the printer, I hardly use it since it is on my son's computer and he prints only once or twice a week for school papers, the left feeder wheel jams the paper. It seems to slip in the cog then the paper is out of alignment and the paper folds over and jams. The gears must be poorly made as I have once before encountered this problem but it was on a 7 or 8 year old well used HP printer. Now the printer jams every 5th or 6th time but I know this will get worse and 5th or 6th time stink as it is.
I will try to update this after I call for warranty info, but sending it back to them would cost $20 bucks and add to the already slightly relatively higher price (since you get cheaper ink).
On top of the above, when the printer was working correctly with Window XP, it really takes a long time to start up and printing is incredibly slow. They advertise 29 color and 30 b/w ppm. I just printed one page, draft quality color, of the Amazon description page and it took 20 seconds before the printer even started to print and 2 minutes altogether, no kidding, 2 minutes, to print out the page. The draft quality looks faded but legible. I just printed a text doc, b/w, normal mode not draft and it took 12 seconds to start and 30 seconds altogether to print the document. That is more like three pages per minute after the initial start up. To be fair I tried printing the same page, b/w, draft, and it took, no kidding 90 seconds. I don't know what is up with their software but that is horrible. I never tried draft after my first time since it was too faded for my preference. I'm a tech so don't think I'm screwing this up... it takes 1 minute longer to print the same page in draft. I though I must have done something wrong and went through all the steps again and no, it's right.
Well for the good... print quality is good (not great) and ink is cheap.
I really recommend that people stay away from this printer. I think Kodak screwed up here. If you are trying to sell a print by saying it saves money by having low cost ink, make it work with old operating systems or freeware operating systems. Make it last for more that a year or two. I could deal with performance issues if I was actually saving anything.
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