Kodak EasyShare 5300: Cheap ink ahoy

GadgetWed 7 February, 2007 12:15pm

Lovely. The image shown is of a unit that clearly has a sheet feeder yet there's no such thing on the Kodak website. I've been trying to find a half decent auto-feed scanner for standard printed photographs without much success and thought this might have been a solution... ho-hum...

Anyone?

WilFri 30 March, 2007 12:30pm

The image shown is the Easyshare 5500 ($299.99 in US), which has a sheet feeder.

AnonymousFri 6 July, 2007 9:42pm

I agree that it cost the customer money. I have gone throught so many cartridges because one color ran out. It is such a waste. Give me a cartridge for each color any day. I am just about ready to go back to Epson.

AnonymousTue 24 April, 2007 9:21pm

Kodak claims a 50% savings on ink. Compared to what? Kodak's reported cost per page in black is 2.7 cents. Comparing that to HP's reported cost per page on the 02 black for the PS5180, 2.9 cents per page, hardly a 50% savings. And now for the color- HP (and Epson and Canon for that matter) use individual cartridges to save the customer money when they run out of ONE color. If you run out of one color on the Kodak, you must throw the entire color cartridge away wasting ink/money. Plus it prints faded looking photos.

mark markerThu 19 July, 2007 10:12pm

I don't like the fact that i have search over 40 sites and i have still yet to find the true anwser for what the hell is the true yiled in these in tanks for the kodak 5300 and the kodak 5500!

AnonymousFri 28 December, 2007 8:34pm

The Kodak 5300 will not print off labels or envelopes without jamming up. The machine keeps telling me that I have incorrectly loaded the paper tray with paper wrong side up, and it takes forever to spool up. E mails to Kodak are ignored. The comments about the prints looking faded are correct. Trying to get the thing to scan would try the patience of a saint. Would I buy another one. No Way.

AnonymousTue 15 April, 2008 5:18am

I think the 'cheap ink' selling point is a bit of a scam. These inks seem to run out in no time, and I don't even print photos. The fact that it refuses to print ANYTHING once one ink cartridge is exhausted is absolutely maddening, and left me high and dry when I had an important piece of work to print, for which I only needed black and white (and had an almost-full cartridge). I wouldn't have bought this had I known, and would advise others to look elsewhere.

AnonymousThu 22 May, 2008 5:53am

I still think kodak is great. To me the price is good for the quality. I'm sticking with kodak.

AnonymousSat 24 May, 2008 12:37am

Has anyone found a way to get around the "wrong side up" message?
I am at a standstill at the moment because I need business cards printed - did a jam up job when I first printed them on double sided business cards from Office depot. Now the thing is continuing to tell me the wrong side is up.

I am quickly becoming dissatisfied with this printer 5500 Kodak. To begin with it had nice crisp black print but is deteriorating no matter how many times I clean the ink head, change cartridges or calibrate

AnonymousSat 24 May, 2008 4:59am

Wrote earlier today about problem with the "wrong side up" message. after several correspondence from Kodak, the person in Tech support gave me the clue.

To calibrate for new paper, put your paper into the tray that you are having trouble with. One sheet only. press copy and cancel at the same time. The paper feeds through and when I did it, TAAA DAAAA!!! I was then able to print my business cards. Still working on resolving the less than best black print to get the crisp black print that I had in the past on the cards.

AnonymousThu 10 July, 2008 2:28pm

My latest Black Ink cartridge printed 6 pages only before running out !!!!
value for money I don't think so.

AnonymousThu 10 July, 2008 7:13pm

When my colour cartridge ran out I was unable to print in black and white for letters etc. What a stupid system. Come on Kodak what a waste of time and mon ey

AnonymousSat 9 August, 2008 1:00am

the printer didn't finish one 6x4 photo when the pc told me out of ink.
then after replacing ink it then told me, print head installed wrong or loose.
so this will be the second 5300 i will be taking back, and not replacing.
the ink is not cheap as one colour runs out. you have too replace the whole cartridge.
i would not recommend this printer, to many bits that can go wrong.
And will

AnonymousTue 19 August, 2008 8:10pm

Prints terrible colour pictures on standard paper.
Currently prints black as WHITE!!! And the black ink is faded.
AVOID!!