Remember Kodak’s latest multifunction printers? The ones Kodak was all cocky about, claiming that they crushed the competition with amazing photos at 10 cents? Well, according to Popular Photography, it’s all a big pile of steaming bull dung.
https://gizmodo.com/kodaks-first-big-printers-in-5-years-easyshare-5100-5-234217
After testing the Kodak EasyShare 5300 against its HP, Canon and Epson counterparts, it seems that not only does the Kodak comes last in every single aspect, but it has no price advantage whatsoever, not even reaching the 10 cents per print mark. The final price per copy was 11.5 cents and the quality “was so low in color saturation that they could be deemed no better than ‘draft’ quality by professional or lab-print standards.” If you use better-quality paper to get results comparable to the competition, the price soars to 37 cents.
Popular Photography has not tested the 100 years life of each copy, but after reading their article, I won’t be waiting around to see if it’s true or not.
All-in-One Printer Shootout [Popular Photography & Imaging]
