Chip bought me a Kodak All-In-One Printer for Christmas 2007. He bought it on Shop NBC and it was a very thoughtful gift. It has a scanner and you can print directly to 4x6 glossy photo paper with it's very own slot to keep the paper. It has SD card slots for several different kinds of memory sticks so you don't even need a computer to print your pictures from your camera. Just put the memory stick in the printer and it prints directly to 4x6 photo paper. The scanner does a fantastic job scanning with it's Kodak technology where it fixes colors and stuff. It's a great product. It's selling point is that the ink is cheaper. The black ink is $10 and the color ink is $15. Good deal right?
WRONG! Last month, after I've had it for about 6 1/2 months, it started messing up big time. I bought brand new ink cartridges for it and it ate it all up and I barely even used the ink and it was printing with white lines and all of a sudden it stopped printing the red and yellow ink. Chip bought another package of ink (black and color together is $22) and still no red and yellow. I cleaned the print heads with the basic clean and deep clean and mind you these are brand new ink cartridges and cleaning the heads ate up all the ink on these BRAND SPANKING NEW ink cartridges. The black has like 1/3 left and the ink is less than 1/4 left and it has the ! exclamation point on it saying it is running out and I need more. I haven't printed anything yet for crying out loud. BRAND NEW! This used to be a good kick ass printer, now it's crap. All it's good for anymore is for scanning, that's it. And it was $250. What a total waste of money.
Update: Kodak, Kodak, Kodak Printer... Those posts reflect that Kodak did do right by me and they sent me a new print head which totally fixed the problem. So please don't let this blog post change your mind about buying a new Kodak All-In-One printer because it really is a good printer.
