Kodak EasyShare 5500 All-in-One Printer Print, Copy, Scan, and Fax (1600105)

The first one I had (same model) lasted for about eight years. The performance was very good, very dependable and the ink cartridges were priced very reasonable. I think they have discontinued this model but I was able to find one slightly used so I bought it. It is exactly what I expected.I would recommend it.

This is the best machine I have ever had. Although being honest, and fair with other reviewers, you may experience some trouble as I did. But for giving this printer less that 5 stars, you must've been unlucky! All the specs under the product profile work perfect, so please believe them. I would just add the feature of scanning right to a SD or memory stick with no PC at all. I've tried all features, from printing to copying, from faxing to scanning and found them quite easy to work with. Use Kodak high quality photo paper, otherwise your pictures may look blury. And please, get awsome professional-quality pictures at home at a price you could just have ever imagined.

I really like the Kodak printer line. I have had no problem, and everything is working as advertised. I really do seem to be saving money on the prints too! How could I not be happy? Well, it could be faster, but I have yet to see a printer that actually makes the times they are rated for. This multi-function printer is a good buy for the money!

Kodak Printer. This is my favorite printer would not trade it for the world. The price you could not match anywhere. I am very happy and I am also very happy with the seller that I purchased this from. Highly recommended.

I was persuaded to buy this product, in part, because of positive reviews on this site. Unfortunately, the initial color and black cartridges ran out in no time and did so simultaneously (although I almost never need/want to make color prints). I purchased refills at my local Wal-Mart in June . . . but the Kodak 5500 printer refused to recognize these brand-new color and black cartridges upon installation, "reading" them as empty in the information screen and refusing to allow the machine to function. Well, I purchased a second set of refills, same place . . . managed to get two months of occasional printing from them (I'm not a daily nor a heavy user). Today = crisis; the black cartridge is showing on the readout as two-thirds full, however, all my efforts to print simple one-page letters turn out totally blank. Junk, junk, junk.

I saw this printer on the TV show, "The Apprentice." The idea of inexpensive ink plus the price being considerably less than the other all-in-one I had planned to buy convinced me to buy it. I should have stuck with the other printer! This has got to be the slowest printer I have ever owned and that includes the dot matrix printers from the late 1980's! Perhaps if you were printing more than one copy the multiple copies would print faster. Or maybe when I get my higher-end computer. It seems to have to think for an incredibly long time before it begins to print. It sometimes locks up after it has been 'thinking' for about 4 minutes and I have to start the print job all over. The color printouts once it does get around to printing are not the greatest quality. Must be "draft." I hesitate to think how long it would take if I tried the duplexing. I haven't tried to print a photo as yet. I gave it two stars only because it does have many functions and it is very "pretty." I get the standard message about the printhead being missing and it also thinks it has a paper jam with great regularity. I have to open and shut the top to convince it there is no paper jam. As far as collating goes, does it collate? Everything I have printed has to be re-shuffled, just like my 5-year old Canon. If you are planning on buying this printer, I would definately re-think it unless you have a lot a time to burn.

This is my 3rd all-in-one printer. I bought it because it has the multi-sheet feeder and the flatbed scanner. Like others, I also had a problem with the print-head after installation. Kodak obviously knows that this is an issue and seems to be working to resolve it. They shipped a new print-head, which works perfectly. They also sent new ink cartridges, asked me to return the "used" cartridges, and in exchange they will send me another set for my efforts. I did get a tech support person immediately (late afternoon call) who was knowledgeable and helpful. Now that the printer is up and running, I'm quite happy with it. I did update the software, and firmware, which I would recommend that others do. Regarding the fax issues (of which others complain), I rarely send/receive faxes, so I'll have to see what happens when that time comes. Actually, a friend of mine has this printer so I think we'll try sending each other faxes to test it out. I did scan an 8 X 10 photo, and then printed a 4 X 6 on the Kodak photo-paper. The print quality is very nice and quite true to the original. Assuming that I don't experience ink "drain", the cost of the cartridges will offset the printer cost. In the meantime, the Lexmark (two of them), a Dell, and a Canon are all sitting in the basement.

I have used HP and Lexmark up until this purchase. The Kodak is superior to both the Lexmark 7100 all in one as well as the HP that was the backbone of my home office. In addition to rock solid operation it is twice as cheap to operate as the Lexmark and HP. The software is not as strong as the software that came with the HP or lexmark.