Kodak Printer Cuts Printing Costs in Half?

Wed Nov 7, 2007 6:36PM EST

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Whenever you talk about print costs, you always use the razor and razorblade analogy. The manufacturers practically give the razors away because they make their money on the razorblades. The same is true of printers: The real money is spent replacing ink-jet cartridges.

But Kodak wants to change that.

They have introduced a printer that claims to cut printing costs by 50%. They plan to sell black ink-jet cartridges for $10 and color cartridges for $15. Take a look at the video to see how those claims pan out.


Yahoo! Tech articles on the Kodak Printer
Kodak's New Printers Cut Ink Costs by 50 Percent
Kodak's Bold Move into Home Printers
Does Kodak's All-in-One Printer Really Save On Ink?
Popular Photography's review of the printer

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  • 1 Posted by ralsu2000 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:27PM EDT Report Abuse

    Find a Cartridge World store and buy their refills. 10 bucks for B/W and 15 for color. I've never had any trouble with them.

  • 3 Posted by merrygrigsby on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:16PM EDT Report Abuse

    I seem to have a problem with the ink heads needing to be frequently cleaned to keep it working.

  • 4 Posted by islandinkjetkansas@sbcglobal.net on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:25PM EDT Report Abuse

    That's cool how much ink do they hold? I bet not much. Try Canon, they are cheap to fill. Cost me $6 at laser toner and ink resources.

  • 5 Posted by bswoodar on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:14PM EDT Report Abuse

    Less expensive ink is not so great when the printer doesn't work very well. I bought a Kodak all-in-one for my parents and the print quality was terrible from the start. Called Kodak and they walked me through the same steps I'd already taken, as shown in the manual. That was basically taking out the print head and putting it back in. It printed a few things ok, color documents, but with a basic text document it was terrible. After sitting a while it doesn't print at all. Could just be a lemon but be prepared to take yours back, save your receipt.

  • 6 Posted by jmspearman on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:37PM EDT Report Abuse

    I've had good luck with my 5500. My printhead went bad after I let it sit for a couple of months, but Kodak replaced it and sent me two new ink cartridges. Prints lovely photos.

  • 7 Posted by ktsai2003 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:54PM EDT Report Abuse

    So? I have a Brother 685CW inkjet printer and is WiFi capable. Use the third party cartridge and cost only 1/10 of the orginal Brother ink (6$ for a set of 4) and frankly, I cannot tell the quality difference in printing. Why bother with ink refill? Go figure.

  • 8 Posted by nanotyper on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:33PM EDT Report Abuse

    Kodak does not make high quality things anymore. I bought a camera/dock system 3 years ago and was never happy with the quality of either nor the output. They are struggling to survive and although this is an innovative approach to add value, it is flawed by their inability to execute.

  • 9 Posted by trstick on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:22PM EDT Report Abuse

    I have heard from Kodak printer owners that they have to manually push in and pull out the photo tray to switch between types of paper. HP, Canon and others printers handles this switch without any pushing or pulling of the photo tray. Also the kodak printers looks less well made with plastic. I have a Canon printer and like it better than the HP and Kodak because Canon's print head nozzles are more finer. (more nozzles for better photo printing)

  • 10 Posted by justamailn on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:44PM EDT Report Abuse

    They do hold a good amount of ink and after owning a cannon, and several epson's and others this Kodak is a great deal. I bought it because I have a color laser, and monochrome laser and I wanted something just for photos and this printer is fantastic. I know it wounds to good to be true but t really is. I bought the ep9 I believe is the model and it has a scanner and document feeder built in and its a dream. I use a Nikon D300 and cannon G10 cameras and the quality of prints are as good as any printer I have owned or seen which is quite a few, What do you have to loose you can keeep spending your hard earned money on fancy inks or do it right and get the kodak ep5, ep7, or ep 9. I believe those model numbers are close but you can find out just by typing in Kodak printers into a search. This lady's review is off by about 405 I WOULD SAY.

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