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Excellent quality photo printing and ultra-low running costs
We recently reviewed Kodak’s Easyshare 5300, Kodak’s first product to use their new ultra-competitively priced ink.
It’s a multifunction device, providing print, scan and copy functions, with memory card slots supporting all major formats, a full control panel and a large colour LCD.
The new Easyshare 5500 builds on the same basic design by adding fax, an automatic document feeder (ADF) and duplex printing. Curiously, it has a slightly smaller colour LCD screen than the basic model, although the remaining functionality is the same.
Performance is rated at 30ppm (pages per minute) mono and 32ppm in colour which is around the fastest for any device in its class, making it ideal for a small workgroup or for anyone with a lot of photographs to print - 10x15cm prints are ready in just 28 seconds.
Setting up and operating the Easyshare 5500 is very simple. Kodak’s Easyshare software installs everything you need to make the most of the product from configuration to ordering supplies. Some might say it goes a little too far - a large selection of options, such as various themed greeting cards templates, come with the package, although you’re not forced to install them.
Kodak’s new six-ink system is priced very competitively and seriously undercuts the competition. Black ink cartridges cost £6.99 each and the five-ink colour cartridges sell for £9.99.
Printing costs are quoted at 2p for a black text page and 7p for a full-colour 10x15cm photo. This allows you to print around double the number of pages as most competing products for the same cost. What's more, these low prices don’t come at the expense of quality, with the Kodak Easyshare 5500 capable of producing superb photo images, delivering the very best of what’s possible in this price range.
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Pros: Very low running costs; fast printing; excellent print
quality; duplex printing
Cons: Large software installation; no automatic paper tray
switching; small paper tray
Overall: Excellent value for money, both in terms of purchase
price and running costs, and prints superb photos at high speed
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Save £50 at PC World
Not my first location to buy discounted printers but PC World have the Kodak Easyshare 5500 for £50 off the list price - Seems to good to miss?
Posted by Bruxy, 23 Nov 2007
KOdak 5500
bought on 7th jan, setup machine and tried to calibrate the machine, electrical insulation melting smell after 10 mins, printhead cable melted. 2nd machine 2 hrs later exactly the same problem. very disappointed in the product reliability, like the principle and design of the product but would like one to last longer than 20 mins before printead cable melts. I have power surge protection fitted after the first one in case they used it as excuse.
Posted by Mark, 09 Jan 2008
I love my Kodak Easyshare 5500
I love my Kodak Easyshare 5500, however the only thing I cannot find out how to do is how to set up the fax and the answermahcine to work at the same time. I fear this can't be done. I use this printer for business purposes and am not at my home office to manually switch from fax to answering mahcine mode when needed. Fax & voicemails are pertinent to my business and I need both. I'm still trying to resolve this issue, but to no avail as of yet. Everything with this printer is awesome!
Posted by lisa, 26 Apr 2008
WORST PRINTER I HAVE EVER BOUGHT
I bought the Kodak Easyshare 5500 on 30/08/2007, It first went faulty within days, printhead needed removing and realigning. It stopped printing all the colours unless I purged the printhead at the end of november. Then it stopped scanning & printhead blocked solid in jan 2008 (less than 5 months old). PC WORLD refused to help stating they don't cover any printer over £50 even though the law states they are responsible for the first year, KODAK have been messing about since january, their customer service persons never ring back or do anything they say they will, printer has been unusable since jan 2008. I have never dealt with companies with such bad customer service before. Now had to get trading standards involved, ridiculous for a printer less than 7 months old (it was only 4 months old when it went completely unusable). Basically this is the most unreliable printer I have ever bought, it is not as cheap to run as the reviews make out because it uses far more ink than they state, print quality is average & the scanning quality is awful at best. To sum up I would advise everyone to stay clear of this printer, it just isn't worth the hassle it gives and neither PC WORLD nor KODAK seem to care.
Posted by Dave Neale, 23 Mar 2008