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Kodak ESP 3.2

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RH Recommended Medal

Kodak has two ranges of all-in-ones: ESP and Hero. The ESP 3.2 sits in the middle of the range and is a straightforward machine. Paper feeds from a 100-sheet, fold-up tray at the rear and the control display, though a touchscreen, is a small 61mm. There are only two cartridges, one black and the other tri-colour, but the printer does have wireless connection and is supported by good, free software for remote and direct printing from mobile devices.

Print speeds of 6.9ppm and 3.7ppm are fair, but there’s no duplex. Page costs, a major selling point for Kodak, are no lower than from the Brother machines, though print quality is better, on both plain and photo paper.

Kodak ESP 3.2 all-in-one inkjet photo printer

Reg Rating 85%
Price £80
More info Kodak

Next page: Kodak Hero 7.1

differences

The differences are explained right at the start of the article. A photo printer generally has more than 4 inks, some offer CD/DVD printing and some have negative/slide scanners.

The truth of all this though is that printing photos at home is a waste of time and money. Online photo printing services can have the pictures out to you next day and they'll be better quality and cheaper than you can possibly achieve at home.

When my current printer dies or the ink becomes hard to find I'll be getting myself a laser, probably black and white, and all my photo printing will be done online.

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Would have liked to have seen some 'normal' inkjet all-in-ones as a comparison

Apart from the fancy pop-up LCD displays (are they needed when you've probably previewed the pic on a phone/camera/tablet/desktop already?), what's the difference between an colour inkjet photo printer and a "normal" colour inkjet printer?

It might have been nice to incude a few "non-photo" colour inkjets in the review, load them up with photo paper and see what sort of job they do. With the price of photo paper and inkjet cartridges already very high, I've got to question spending anything more than 100 quid on any sort of inkjet printer.

Me? I've got an HP colour all-in-one inkjet printer, but no somewhat pointless colour pop-up LCD on it. Price? 25 quid directly from hp.com - throw in some photo paper and it does a good enough job at printing photos. No printer here costs under 80 quid, the difference of which could go on buying a reasonable number of cartridges and photo paper.

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Re: When is £300>£499?

If you're price conscious (as you should be), then you'd be crazy to compare prices of the printers themselves and not spend at least twice the time comparing the cost of the ink. If you actually use a printer, the cost of the ink will swamp out the price of the printer itself several times over.

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Printing your own is only way

Being a photographer who likes to post process a lot I sometimes have weird crops etc. I like to control how these are printed and how accurate they are in colour saturation and hue etc. Most print services don't offer much more than size and borderless or matt or glossy.

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Re: Printing on glass

Some local options here:

http://www.acrylic-glass-photo.co.uk/en/acrylic-glass-photo/241000.xhtml

http://uk.whitewall.com/products/LumasecLight

http://www.pixum.co.uk/poster-canvas/gallery-print.html

http://www.posterjack.co.uk/

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