The all-in-one printer from Kodak ESP 9250 ink jet is the big brother of the ESP 7250. It adds support feeding automatic faxing of documents, it is more appropriate for use in an Office at home. As with most Kodak printers, it's more expensive initially than equivalent rival machines, costs around £ 180, but it is less expensive that run most of the competition.
Visually, the 9250 is very similar to the 7250. Essentially, it resembles a large box that curved sides and a large mouth in the environment where the printed sheets are feeding on a telescopic tray. Above the mouth is located the command flip-out panel which houses a screen 2.4 inches, with buttons for various printing, analysis, reproduction and fax functions. There is also a numeric keypad to dial the fax number.
The front is home to two memory card slots. The first takes care of xD, SD and Memory Stick cards while the second welcomes the CompactFlash cards. Under these, there is a USB port compatible PictBridge allows you to use the printer to capture photos directly from compatible cameras or USB drives.
Kodak has added an automatic document feeder at the top of the flatbed scanner. It accepts documents of up to 30 sheets and allows to copy automatically or by fax of the multipage documents, without having to manually placing each sheet on the scanner glass surface - a great time-saver when you use the 9250 in a Home Office.
The main paper tray at the bottom contains up to 100 sheets of paper, which is not a huge amount of a home office model. But it also section House a paper separate photo, so you don't have to remove the normal A4 sheet when you want to print pictures, as you do with some other models.
Of the large 9250 sign and the abundance of buttons make it simple to use.
The 9250 can be used on USB, Wi - Fi or Ethernet. The last two options make it easy to share the printer with other computers on your network, and the two are quite simple to implement.
It is also easy to install the cartridges. There are just two cartridges as Kodak combines all color inks in a single cartridge. It is not the best idea in our book, as if you are running low as a color, you must replace the entire cartridge. The semi-permanent slot in two cartridges in a print head, and then locations in the printing mechanism. Once the 9250 has completed printing an alignment page and you have loaded the drivers on your computer,'re you good to go.
Integrated scanner is reasonably fast scan documents and photos, and the results are generally good quality. It is also fast when it comes to photocopy - our test page for black and white was completed in just 23 seconds. While the copied text crunchy, it is however visible bands in the black areas of the page.
The 9250 supports automatic duplex printing you can print on both sides of a sheet of paper without having to manually it would return and feed to the printer. But, as the 7250, printing in duplex mode, the overall print area is reduced. We have found no solution to this annoying problem.
The 9250 is no speed demon when it comes to printing. Our document of 10 pages of black and white text is rather quiet 3 minutes and 1 second to complete, while ten copies of our graphics test worksheet have been similarly slow to emerge, taking 3 minutes and 35 seconds. A presentation of ten pages was slower still, 4 minutes and 23 seconds. Photo print speed was not bad, but 51 seconds for a 4 - by 6-inch print.
Photos look impressive, with little dots that affects the results of some lesser printers. But, although the text is not exactly bad, it is not as clean as it could be. There is also some of the visible bands in color in the graphics.
Kodak has managed to reduce the cost of printing to a minimum. At the current price of the cartridge, a page in black and white works in a very reasonable 2.3 p, then as a color page is also good walks, to 4.5 percent. These two awards include 0.7% for the costs of paper.
If you are willing to sacrifice some speed and quality printing for less expensive operating costs, the Kodak ESP 9250 is likely to prove a worthy partner of printing in the long term.
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