Kodak EasyShare 5500

Kodak Easyshare 5500 All-In-One Color Inkjet MFP

EasyShare 5500 Review, by Melissa Riofrio January 17, 2008

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• Latest User Reviews 3 reviews
• Reviewed by: hchomeoh

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Cost of ink

  Weaknesses: speed & eas of use

  Overall: can do better for the price

• Reviewed by: drwill1968

  Duration of ownership: 1 Week

  Overall: ps; i was able to buy the unit for 149.00 cheaper at any price out there. though bestbuy, it was a deal when i have looked iy up around the sites. good luck with it wfpII

• Reviewed by: sandyloiler

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: There are no strengths to this product. Kodak has a good idea but poor reliabiltiy.

  Weaknesses: Reliability! Not good when you have to return two products!

  Overall: DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT! We purchased this product believing to spend a little more but save on ink! Well, the first one failed outright and the second one had a failed print head. Kodak replaced printhead but the product failed again! The print head is something the consumer has to install and after removing and looking at the print head contacts we could see they were FRIED! So after 2 products and 3 printheads we decided to return the item (150 miles round trip!) and get our money back!

• Reviewed by: jcantkowski

  Strengths: It is multitasker. The ink is cheap.

  Weaknesses: It is big and boxy

  Overall: I just bought this yesterday. I love it so much already. I can print pictures, copy, scan, and fax all on this machine. Also, I don't need to use a computer to download pictures from my digital camera. It has 2 slots for Sd cards and xd cards. It's not super fast at printing stuff out, but the quality is very good. It was a little more than I wanted to spend on a printer but the ink cartidges are considerably cheaper than others on the market.

• Reviewed by: ewfrog

  Strengths: Copier

  Weaknesses: Printer sounds horrible, poor print quality, not mac friendly

  Overall: This printer has great prices on ink cartridges and I was so excited to purchase and be done with the hassell of over inflated ink prices. Well the printer in one word = awful. The sounds it produces while printing (when you can get it to print) is horrendous. It sounds like the plastic is about to snap at any moment. The quality of the prints are very poor as well. You maybe wondering about the picture printing. Me too! I was unable to get the 4x6 prints to work. It may be a function of using the memory card only but I got tired of trying to get it to print. The software package for the Mac is non-existent. In fact, you need to download it and not use the disc that was provided in the box. Don't waste you money on this product. There are many better printers at the same or less cost.

• Reviewed by: wouwolve

  Strengths: Low priced ink.

  Weaknesses: The printer is fairly slow in sending the paper from the tray to begin printing.

  Overall: This printer has nice features, especially the tray for 4X6 inch prints. The print quality is average to good, and the price of ink cartridges is unbeatable... just can't find in stores, and must order online.

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  Strengths: all in one eaisy to use aND best of all CHEEP INK !!!!

  Weaknesses: 32ppm = NOT more like 4 ... If your a dweeb and need SPEED buy a laser. Iyou want quality and cheep ink buy this.....

  Overall: I would have one thing to say WOW ! Its a little slow I cant immagine on what planet there on trying to say 30 color and 32 black PPM more like 1.5 and 2.9. BUT I needed quality all in one if i ne

• Reviewed by: carolpetitt

  Strengths: Affordable ink. Black ink $9.99. Color ink $14.99. Bonus package includes 180 4x6 photo sheets with color cartridge for only $17.99.

  Weaknesses: Noisy. Paper error.

  Overall: I have had this printer since September. It prints 4" x 6" photos from camera memory cards very well, but after the card is downloaded, the pictures are automatically erased from the memory card. (Maybe I'm not doing something right.) When printing documents from a computer, the printer doesn't always recognize the paper. Sometimes you have to "trick" the printer into recognizing the paper. The printer is also very noisy and seems to want to "deep" clean the printhead every time the printer is turned on. My printhead messed up after about 90 days. After talking with customer service, Kodak "overnighted" a new printhead and both ink cartridges. I was very pleased with Kodak's customer care. All in all, the low cost ink cartridges are the best feature of this printer.