The ESP 3250’s ink costs are the lowest in the industry. Scan and copy performance were good overall, as well. Once we switched to Kodak’s own photo paper, however, the same images looked amazing-on a par with or better than the output of the Canon Pixma MP560 and the HP Photosmart Plus, depending on the test. Samples we printed on plain paper were adequate: Text came out charcoal rather than black, and images sometimes seemed grainy. In PCWorld Labs performance tests, the ESP 3250 performed slowly for the most part, outputting just 4.4 pages per minute printing text, and 2.5 ppm printing graphics.
And since the scanner lid hinges have only one pivot point, they cannot rise to accommodate books or other thicker items. The prop arm for the scanner unit wiggled at the joint when I tugged at it, though. A roller insert in the back of the machine eases the clearing of paper jams (we suffered none). Second, setting the scan area when the borders were close to the unit’s maximum 11.5-by-8.5-inch area was a bit tricky and required a lot of zooming and scrolling.
KODAK HOME PRINTERS WITH SCANNER DRIVER
First, duplexing is manual on the PC, with help from the driver and the front-panel display-but on the Mac, you get zero help aside from Kodak’s support site, where an awkward workaround is documented in detail. The single media slot takes MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, and SD Card. The single, 100-sheet front input tray also catches printed output, up to 50 sheets (per Kodak) this design, common among low-cost printers, is tolerable but messy. Its menus and control buttons are intuitive, as is Kodak’s Home Center printing/copying/scanning software.
The 1.5-inch LCD screen on the top panel is small but legible. Otherwise, it is an average-quality, rather slow machine, appropriate for light-duty school or home use. The Kodak ESP 3250 All-in-One color inkjet multifunction printer is very inexpensive ($130 as of January 25, 2010), and it prints superior images on photo paper.
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