Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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(out of 31 reviews)
List Price: $129.99
Price: $87.19
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Review from jc2100 for the Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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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’.
Review from PaulieUK for the Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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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
Review from John “tweezer” for the Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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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.
Review from Golddust79 for the Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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Purchased this printer last weekend and I’m afraid I am no way impressed. Firstly we cannot download the software CD onto a laptop which uses Vista..an error message just appears which says installation unsuccessful offering no words of advice as to why it unsuccessful. I have Googled for fixes and spoken to a Kodak rep via their chat online but all the solutions I have tried several times to no avail.
Secondly we managed to download the software to a PC using windows XP and managed to print one picture! The next day the printer appeared as disconnected and after trying to solve that an error now appears that the ‘argument is invalid’ If you are a computer technician who enjoys printer problem solving for many hours then this printer is for you. If you want to be able to just print a photograph nice and simply then i’d reconsider. I gave it one star for the mere fact that it got me excited for five minutes when it printed one picture and because it increased my printer troubleshooting skills from the past week of trying to fix it.
Review from Perry Duke for the Kodak ESP 5250 Wifi Wireless All-in-One Printer
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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.
I purchased this item full of hope. Great stats, wifi(I needed desk space so I put it into another part of my office). First one print head was defective, and wifi didn’t work. returned it after hours on the phone with kodak tweaking my computer settings to no avail other than crashing it. Repaired my computer and bought another 5250 thinking maybe it was a fluke. It wasn’t, the new one was ok while making mediocre prints(too light compared to a color corrected display using spyder), the wifi still did not work! I purchased it for the wifi! I have enough cords. once again hours on the phone with nothing accomplished.. Think I’m gonna buy an hp, or something