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We’re Switching Printers Kodak 6150 Printer Review

May 29, 2010 by Momstart 20 Comments

********I would like to update this post and say that yes we still use this printer but it does drive me crazy. When it runs out of either black or color ink it stops printing. I don’t even get a warning anymore about it running out of ink. All I get is it doesn’t print. Paper does often get jammed when doing faxes as well.

 

I’ve been using printers since Lexmark was a big named printer, wait, they still are. Now choosing a printer can be pretty daunting and I usually leave that decision to my husband. He’s the pickier person anyways. When it comes to how he makes a decision it is quality over price, me, I would pick the cheapest one and hope for the best.

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My husband goes on-line and reads review after review, and takes in factors, like ink type, speed, and noise. Some printers may be fast but if they sounds like an elephant parade then they are not an option. Because of my blogging, we have found the need for an all-in-one printer. My husband picked up and HP at Costco. We’ve been satisfied by it, but we didn’t really know any better. Little did I know that my husband was barely satisfied, he doesn’t like the way it auto corrects photos that you scan in without his permission. Kodak sent us the Kodak 6150 Printer to review and my expectations were low. I’m not sure why, but when I think of Kodak and printers, I just assumed the quality was going to be less then the HP.

Kodak blew our HP out of the water!

Setting up the 6150 was really easy. The Kodak has the option to conned to networks that have the push button technology, for some reason it didn’t work at our house and my husband still had to type in the 20 digit network key, but he suspects it was his own fault because he has been trying to make our network extra secure. I have no idea. Installing it on the computer was also pretty simple, I was just disappointed that my computer couldn’t find it on the network. I had to use the CD before it could find it. Microsoft didn’t already have the drivers, but just follow the directions the printer comes with and you’ll have no issues.

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Faxing – just hook it up to your phone line and it’s ready to go.

Printing – The Kodak 6150 uses a new technology for ink. The pigment ink is something that my husband has been really interested in. The ink lasts over 100 years printed, and it is more economical. Kodak sells their re-fills for around 9.00. I hear so many people say that they hate buying more ink because it ends up making their printer cost a fortune. IMG_1150

The speed seemed ok to me and my husband never complained, which means it passed the speed test. The sound, no elephants were in my kitchen while I was blogging. He was printing out photos while I was blogging away. I’m sure he was giving me a play by play of the printer, but I was not exactly listening to every word he said as I was trying to get some work done.IMG_1151

Print and share your mobile life—with built-in wireless connectivity, you can easily print from multiple sources:

  • Print documents and photos sent from a Wi-Fi enabled BLACKBERRY Smartphone[10]with the KODAK Print App for BLACKBERRY—visit www.kodak.com/go/blackberry for more information
  • Print photos in multiple sizes sent from an iPhone or iPod touch[11]with the KODAK Pic Flick App for iPhone—visit www.kodak.com/go/picflick for more information

Scanning – scanning is impressive because you can scan and send it to your network, or computer. Most printers you have to initiate the scan from your computer. The Kodak, allows you to choose the computer you want to save to from the printer itself, I found my husband’s computer and scanned to it. The HP could not do that. There was also no auto correction, you can choose to make corrections or changes to your photo. You can rotate it, make some color corrections or sharpen it up to three degrees. This is something I would expect from a Kodak printer.IMG_1149

 

Photos – my husband spent half the night the other evening printing new photos of our children. The HP never inspired him to print out photos, but the Kodak and it’s quality photos left him printing and printing. The colors are a close match to the originals.   IMG_1152

We still have our Canon i9100 that we will be using to print 13 by 19, hint hint Kodak!!

Overall though, the Kodak 6150 has impressed us so much that we are going to switch from HP to Kodak. Kodak, you have impressed my husband and I guarantee he’s going to be following your technology with more interest than he did previously.

 

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Comments

  1. kristin says

    May 31, 2010 at 9:11 am

    I totally see why you would switch. My printer sucks, we go through ink like crazy. Maybe Kodak is the answer.

    Reply
  2. Kristie says

    June 1, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    That is great that it can print photos as well! We have a separate printer and photo printer and it takes up a lot of room.

    Reply
  3. Bridgette says

    June 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    Kodak has some great features! Easier scanning would definitely by something that would make me take a second look!

    Reply
  4. Kelly Hayes says

    June 3, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Wow! That ounds like the printer I need. Mine sounds like the elephant. I bought it because it was cheap and i needed the printer ad fax in one. I will be looking for Kodak 6150 Printer . Thanks for sharing your test drive o the new printer.

    Reply
  5. mIKE says

    June 5, 2010 at 3:05 am

    The cartridges are cheaper, but it seems they don’t last long at all, plus if the black & whilte empties before the color and visa versa, you can’t print at all. I question the savings!

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    • Heather says

      March 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

      I agree with u when u say, that the ink does not last long at all! Also if black or color is used up u cant use one or the other. I have had nothing but issues with this kodak printer! It always skips the first page when printing and I just put a brand new color cartridge in and printed one thing and its saying it is low already. I am going to throw this machine out the window!

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      • Patrick says

        October 24, 2011 at 10:19 pm

        I hate this printer! I rarely use it and its always out if ink! Nothing works when the I have black ink but no color, it only scans half the time and the other half it takes 20minutes then says “failed” with no error code. Customer service is beyond horrible (Indian’s who only have programed responses, and do not think for themselves to help). I bought it to buy ink, but now im just wasting time and money. I will never buy Kodak again.

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        • Karl says

          February 9, 2012 at 4:56 pm

          I bought it to buy ink, but now im just wasting time and money. I will never buy Kodak again.I hate this printer! I rarely use it and its always out if ink! Nothing works when the I have black ink but no color.i think ‘printer’ business is the biggest scam.companies tactfully convinve to buy cheep ink, but no mention of how much ink you are getting. no wonder company is going bankrupt,

          Reply
  6. D. P. ADLER says

    March 20, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    We like our Kodak 6150 but would like it even better if we could get the top paper feed to work without jamming for copying and faxing.

    Reply
    • Momstart says

      March 20, 2011 at 7:56 pm

      I have to agree, it is annoying that the paper has started to jam

      Reply
  7. Sammie says

    December 7, 2011 at 10:12 am

    We have this printer at work (dental office). We have had parts break and instead of sending us the part they have sent a whole new printer, which I think is ridiculous.
    It EATS ink. Yeah, the ink is less expensive, but in our office I replace the ink every 2 weeks.
    The other problem I have is feeding the paper. It seems to be an issue every 6 months or so. They say
    the answer is to download the most recent drivers but that has not solved it this time. It is annoying.
    I think it is a flimsy printer. I would not recommend it.

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  8. Dutchtouch1 says

    December 11, 2011 at 2:26 am

    If this is anything like Kodak’s previous printers, run – don’t walk- run, as far away as you can and find a different brand. If you run low on ink…or even if you don’t, but the machine randomly decides you should be, it will not perform any functions until you install a new ink cartridge. The concept and promise are great. The Kodak execution is extremely poor and frustrating. Oh, and the service is as bad as any I’ve ever come across. Lots of patronizing “we understand your problem” and “I understand that this is difficult” but no real help. Kodak, your printers were a great idea and poorly done. Without a real SATISFACTION guarantee, no one should risk their money or frustration on a Kodak printer. What are you going to do when you need to print out something for a report or a child’s project and the machine just decides to stop working after you’ve printed out two photos and 20 B&W print pages over the prior two months? Read the reviews on-line: it happens all the time. If you don’t have two (one black and one color) cartridge ALWAYS in backup, you will be stuck. guaranteed. Beware – stay away from these.

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  9. Sheryl says

    February 25, 2012 at 8:22 am

    I have a Kodak ESP 5250, after being an HP fan for ages. I have an HP laptop. The HP pc and printers work very well together, but the Kodak takes forever to “communicate” with my HP laptop. When I want to reset my preferences (I mainly print in draft to save ink) it takes forever for the command box to come up. And sure the ink is cheaper, but it runs out in less than half the time my old HP cartridges did. I saved an “empty” Kodak cartridge and installed it later for kicks …. it worked fine for 100 more pages! But the most frustrating thing this printer does….it will randomly either print nothing at all on the page, or no matter what my settings are it will print a page very very slowly and the page will be saturated and soggy with ink. Even if I have it set on draft! It worked beautifully for the first few weeks, but now I’m beginning to hope it breaks down so I can go buy another HP. I don’t find that I’m saving any money at all, and it’s just not as reliable and consistent. I will not buy another Kodak printer.

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  10. Robin Mcdonell says

    March 13, 2012 at 4:21 pm

    Less than six months its junk and all they can offer me is 30% off on another. Our you kidding I just want the one I bought to work!
    I am giving the ESP office 6150 a bad review, The online service could not give me a solution to fix it. I have had several HP printers that have lasted for years with out any problems. This unit did not even make it six months with light usage. I’ll be sending it to the recycling and picking up a new HP tomorrow. Its such a shame to see such a great American brand name decline.

    Reply
  11. Pan says

    August 22, 2012 at 11:05 am

    “Kodak sells their re-fills for around 9.00”

    Can you please point me where you getting 9 bucks ink? Cheapest I can find 19.97 @ walmart, I’m not going to mention price for color ink!..

    Reply
  12. Donna Gardner says

    January 16, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    Wow! Our new Kodak 6150 has been frustrating and disappointing. First, I called the people in India (Kodak Tech Support) about the ink, which was only printing with blue and rose. The techie would not tell me how to uninstall the ink cartridges. I finally found out, without his help.

    I was on the phone later with another techie in India because I had a paper jam. After 50 frustrating minutes, they decided to replace my unit. Why don’t they engineer it so that a paper jam is accessible? Why isn’t the paper tray removable, as it is on their other models?

    Over all, they are very sparing with the printed instructions included in the handbook. Answers on the net are not helpful, either.

    Their techies are very polite, but they wear the caller down with endless questions and responses which do nothing to solve the problem.

    Reply

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