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User Reviews for
Kodak EasyShare 5500 All-in-One Printer
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Bad out of box
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Reviewed
February 2 2008 4:07:04 AM
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Ratings:
1
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Pros:
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Cons:
didn't work at all I've got lots of quality Kodak products and expected great things from the 5500 printer. I was really let down. I looked all over town and waited for 3 days for Office Depot to get some in. I finally found one and when I got it home I proceeded to hook it up.
The first thing that I noticed was that the paper feeder for the scanner was bent and didn't fit right. Oh well I figured. I can bend it into place later on, which wouldn't be a big problem.
I proceeded exactly as described in the instructions. When I powered it on it jammed hard. It continued to jam every time I fixed it and then would say the paper was out, which it clearly wasn't. It spit through roughly 60 pages trying to calibrate and jammed every 3rd one. It never printed a drop of ink.
I packaged it up and it went back to where it came from 4 hours later.
This was a bad experience with Kodak and I expected MUCH better.
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Print Problems
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Reviewed
May 26 2008 6:19:12 PM
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users found this recommendation helpful.
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Ratings:
1
out of 5
Pros:
Excellent printing, when it prints!! Cheap Ink |
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Printing problems I have already had to replace this printer once for the same problem. It will not print in black.Done everything. Cleaned, updated, replced ink, still same problem as first one. Works great if it would print the black ink. Easy to use. Only other downfall is printer recognizing photo paper at times. Would only recommend when the kinks get worked out by Kodak.
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Not as jazzed as reviews I read before I bought
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Reviewed
February 7 2008 7:07:19 PM
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users found this recommendation helpful.
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Ratings:
3
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Pros:
Awesome features!!! |
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Cons:
Must not be totally compatible with Vista I read several raving reviews about this printer before I bought it. Top of the list was how cheap the ink cartriges were. I almost purchased mine online for $150 which was half the retail price, then found one at Sam's Club for $99. I was way happy.
I brought it home and started through the directions to hook it up when I discovered that my box did not contain both parts of the power cord assembly. I tried to reach a live person online, but it was a Friday and of course that's a day they don't have anyone. So I surfed their FAQs until I found a phone number. I called and waited on hold for over 90 minutes for a live person. He said the part of the cord that I was missing would be mailed Monday.
I got the cord Tuesday and finished setting up my printer exactly as instructed. I was impressed at the quality of the prints and how easy it was to use. But the first time I tried to print a photograph from a file stored on my computer (rather than inserting a memory card into the front printer slot) the picture that printed out was all wrong. It started to print the photo, then stopped and restarted again half way through, and again and again, so that the finished print looks like it is 4 prints layered on top of each other. The more I tried the worse it got, and the lines in between the picture sections were getting wider and wider and wetter and wetter. I wasted 10 sheets of photo paper hoping this time I had fixed it after doing various things on the computer. I have contacted Kodak by email for help with this problem but after a week all I've gotten is a suggestion to download upgrades to the drivers and an apology that they are experiencing high customer volume. So I did the download. Photos are printing now, yeah.
But almost every day this dumb printer freezes up and won't print pages that I send to it (pages from the Internet and from WORKS). I try to press the power button to turn it off and then back on to reset it. That does nothing. It won't shut off. I press CANCEL and it says it is cancelling, but then on the computer when I try to reprint it says the copier is off. It just won't respond. Finally I just unplug the thing to get it to reset and wait for it to warm up. Then I try to reprint. Usually that works, but it sucks that I have to do all that just to get it to print a page. It's like it is not compatible with Vista or something.
When it works it works WELL... but this not reponding stuff is the pits.
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Great Printer
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Reviewed
January 13 2008 8:15:36 PM
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users found this recommendation helpful.
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Ratings:
5
out of 5
Pros:
low cost cartridges, good quality, good value for money |
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didn't see any Great printer. Great scanning. Great product. I would recommend to all.
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