Kodak ESP 2170 All-in-One Printer

Product Description

Stop overpaying for ink and make the smart investment with the KODAK ESP Office 2170 All-in-One Printer. Kodak offers the lowest total ink replacement cost so your home office can save money.* And you'll save time too, with a suite of tools that will get you to those early a.m. meetings with time to spare. The versatile ESP Office 2170 Printer lets you print, copy, scan, and fax. It's an affordable 4-in-1 bundle of business efficiency that makes the most of every dollar, and every minute. So you'll never worry about hitting print again. One system, four great functions - print, copy, scan, and fax capabilities in a compact rear feed design delivering crisp, sharp documents and graphics and KODAK Lab-Quality Photos that last a lifetime. Easy Wi-Fi setup to connects to your wireless home network. Send scans to your PC, e-mail, network folders, memory cards, or USB flash drive. Print photos in multiple sizes directly from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad device3 with the KODAK Pic Flick App. Use the photo sort feature to easily find and view your pictures on your memory card by month, day, or year via the printer LCD. Accomplish critical business tasks effortlessly with the easy-to-use control panel and 1.5" display

*As compared to leading consumer inkjet printers’ total ink load replacement costs using manufacturers’ recommended standard ink cartridges available in single-quantity pricing (i.e., no multi-packs, high capacity, combo packs, value packs or special promotions); excludes printers that use only one cartridge. Based on independent third-party price survey data obtained June 2010.

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Product Details

• Brand: Kodak
• Model: Kodak ESP Office 2170
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 19.00" w x 18.00" l, 16.13 pounds

Features

• Print, Copy, Scan, Fax
• Wireless printing
• High-capacity paper tray
• Auto document feeder
• Intelligent paper sensor detects paper sizes and type

Customer Reviews

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144 of 150 people found the following review helpful.
Easy to setup and sharp,beautiful printed pictures
By Burgmicester
I've had my share of printers and right now I have three of them on my wifi and in use: Canon MP640 (very nice), HP Photosmart C7280(a pain), and an old R80 Inkjet (been on my desk in service for nearly 12 years - a workhorse). The only one that compares to this new Kodak is the Canon.

The Kodak is a little bulkier, there are too many openings that do not completely close up to protect it from dust and the view screen is much too small (my only real negative) making the selection of pictures harder than it has to be. To the positive side, it only has two cartridges (black and colors) and only one paper feed for all paper types.

The Kodak setup is a piece of cake and went very smoothly. The wifi picked right up without any problems.

There isn't much more to say. The printing quality of both the Canon and Kodak are marvelous. I was very impressed with the Kodak's sharpness in the pictures I selected to print. I'd have to give it a 4.5 (small screen is just stupid). But I'm rounding up due to the ink system and paper feed.

****UPDATE*****09/02/2011:

It is imperative that you use the software from Kodak to install the printer. Initially, I did not and let Windows 7 find a Kodak driver for it. It worked for a while and then Windows 7 could not find the printer. I tried deleting the other printers and nothing worked. So I then installed the drivers from the CD that came with the printer. Not only did the printer install, it automatically updated the firmware of the printer from Kodak. Once everything was completed (all automatically), the printer was the default printer and everything was good with the world.

83 of 85 people found the following review helpful.
Great Kodak Printer with some reservations
By TheProf
I am a longtime user of HP printers. In fact, I still have one that I love because the ink lasts forever in it- and I'm a frequent user. The cost is substantial to replace so I was pleased to find this Kodak printer that claimed the lowest cost in replacement ink.

Pros:
-It prints out crisp, clean images
-It prints out photos with good clarity
-The copier works fast and cleanly
-The feed is smooth and handles most paper weights/types easily
-The printer's ink is among the cheapest for replacement
-The wifi connection was so easy to install with my MacBook Air laptop
-The cable connection to the iMac was easy to install as well

Cons:
-The ink gets used up very quickly. Ink may be cheaper, but you'll be buying it more frequently.
-The "intelligent" paper size sensor works well for some sizes but not others. (See below for my explanation.)
-The wifi turns off after a period of no use and in order to use it again, you have to unplug the printer then plug it back in again.

I tried to print out my sister's wedding invitations on the printer. It was a 5.75" by 5.75" size paper and I changed all the settings on my computer that I needed to in order to print that particular size. However, the "intelligent" paper sensor insisted that I had not put in the correct size paper. It refused to recognize that paper at all and never pulled it through the feeder. It was frustrating and there was no help available with Kodak support for that question. (My HP printer did recognize the paper and allowed me to print instead.)

The wifi turning off is also a little aggravating. I can understand if it would just go into "sleep" mode but it doesn't sense when a print job is in queue. You should be able to press the on/off button to get it running again, however, not even that works. I find I have to disconnect the printer from the wall socket in order to resume the wifi use.

Overall, it is a great start for Kodak. The printer leaves a fairly small footprint on my desk and is quieter than many other printers. It is very easy to set up with Macs (which is always a plus for our family!)
*********UPDATE*****************
Since posting my review, I have discovered one other issue that (for us) is a deal breaker. Every time I turn on my computer to print, there is another Kodak update for the printer. When I click on it, it basically reinstalls the printer. I do not know what the "update" is. So we have decided to use this printer as a backup only and have gone back to using our HP printer.

In addition, we purchased color & black ink cartridges 3x before using up even one ream of paper. The claim of being a lower cost ink printer does not hold up. That is why I am lowering my star rating from 4 to 2.

114 of 124 people found the following review helpful.
After one year, I hate it.
By venturaguy
UPDATE October 22, 2012:

Well after owning this printer for one year, the initial joy has faded, only to be replaced by frustration and misery. I am therefore reducing my rating to one star. Why?

1) The printer stopped working entirely at about the 6-month mark and had to be replaced under warranty
2) The printer regularly drops the WiFi connection and will not reconnect without powering it off and on.
3) The software wants to install updates at an annoying frequency, which makes me question the quality of the software in the first place.
4) The printer seems to go though increasing amounts of ink with age. I swear they program something into these printers to make them nearly unusable after the warranty is up. The most recent cartridge lasted only 80 pages or so, less than ONE FIFTH of the rated life.
5) The black print head is clogged and will no longer print. This is despite always using 100% genuine Kodak cartridges.

In short, this printer turned out to be an even BIGGER disappointment than my last two ink jets. Good riddance Kodak, you deserve your bankruptcy.

==== Original review from August 2011 =====
No-fuss, low cost photos - I'm impressed.

Our old cannon all-in one printer finally died and will no longer feed envelopes. Plus it guzzles ink like its going out of style. Time to buy a new printer. Yuck... Naturally this involves spending 2 hours at office max looking at all the overlapping variations of printers and getting useless help from store personnel:

Employee #1: I hear Lexmark is pretty good, you should buy this one (points at random $300 printer)

Employee #2, 30 minutes later: I really don't recommend Lexmark, Epson is the way to go (gestures in the general direction of the Epson aisle).

So I resort to using my iPhone and trying to read multi-page printer reviews on the 3" screen. At it turns out, both the Lexmark and Epson I am looking at get stinky reviews, so I decide to go with a Brother for $59. If I can't have good, might as well go for cheap.

I'm on my way to the register, cart loaded with ink, printer and paper, when I pass a display for Kodak printers. What catches my eye is the "lowest per-page ink cost in the industry" signage. Indeed, genuine cartridges are only $10, rather than $40 for the Brother. Suddenly it occurs to me that this Brother printer isn't going to be very cheap in the long run.

Now I'm intrigued, so the iPhone comes out again. A 3rd employee hovers at a safe distance, probably trying to work up the courage to talk to this clearly frazzled customer.

Of course the Kodak is a new model, so all I can find out is that it has a patented pigment-based ink that is supposed to last 100 years and the reviewer thinks the printer prints "above average" photos (whatever that means). Now my daughter is starting to fuss and my feet are tired so I dump the Brother back on the shelf and grab the $150 Kodak. If nothing else, I can be confident my smudged and off-color home photo prints will be inexpensive to throw away.

So I take it and home and....

1) Turn on.
2) Install software.
3) Print photo.

I left all the settings on auto, used my old photo paper from Costco and just let it rip. I figure I might as well get a baseline and find out how much time and ink I am going to waste getting all the colors and settings dialed in.

When the photo came out I almost fell over. It looked beautiful, nearly identical to the exact same photo we had paid to have professionally developed a week earlier. And I didn't have to adjust a dang thing. Revolutionary I tell you.

Now if you were to hold them up close in your hand you can definitely tell the inkjet because it has that faint grainy "inkjet" texture to the lighter tones, so it's not perfect. But for a little $150 box that also sends faxes and scans things I was quite amazed.

Kudos to Kodak for making my life a little easier, and for leading the way in lowering the cost of printing.

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