Comments on: Kodak EasyShare 5300: Don’t Believe The Hype

By: Rebkee

Rebkee — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:43:54 +0000

I have two 5300 printers. One is at my house in Florida and the other here in Deleware. Between the two of them you couldn’t make one good boat anchor. They both worked fine for a little while and then went brain dead. Kodak is useless if you try to get any help from their tech. support. I’m going to have a pitching contest and see how far I can throw both of them. I believe Kodak has crapped in their mess kit with these printers.

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:39:26 +0000

Ive had my 5300 for probably 18 months now. bought it in pc world and returned it the next day as the first one just kept sitting there with the red attention light glaring at me. Finally got it replaced by the store but now its no longer printing black. A friend also bought the slightly better model and had a faulty scanner on that one

Came here to see if I could figure out whether this was a common problem, and have found my answer.

Im guessing this means the printer heads gone on the thing. Now out of guarantee so will give kodak a try but frankly I need a reliable printer so think Im gonna start looking for a new printer.

Not happy, and I for one will not buy kodak again

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:26:43 +0000

Hi, My name is Matthew! I am fom Kentucky. I got a Kodak EasyShare 5300 All In one Printer two years ago for christmas, now they did however, I BELIEVE discontinue that model. But i still use this printer for photos buisness use, school work, you name it we use it for that, cheat codes, i have a thirteen year old brother that likes PS3, and a 2 year old neice that likes Dora so we are printing things all the time… And my mom is a Mary Kay Cosmetics Consultant! Anyway, I am 20 years old and I have never had any problems out of my printer, it is the best printer i have EVER had, and i have had a computer since i was 5 years old. I would gladly be a walking billboard for Kodak! I love their products! Sorry if i am coming on a bit strong but I am just seeing all these bashings of the Kodak printers and I get very upset over things like that! E-mail me ppl: thatdude1989@gmail.com

Thanks,
Matt

By: KrisH

KrisH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:28:01 +0000

I have the same problem with my printer not printing black at all. I am fed up myself. I was missing the driver files and print profile files and no word from Kodak at all. No customer service to speak of and not one reply on what could possibly be wrong. Basically, go buy and Epson that has a customer service department and printer that ACTUALLY PRINTS.

By: KrisH

KrisH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:25:31 +0000

And the missing driver file issue and the missing print profile issue and the scan time out issue and the whole 5300 AIO issue.

By: KrisH

KrisH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:24:14 +0000

I agree with you 100%. I had the same problem with this printer. Try to scan them as a Photo in your photo software as a PDF. This will solve your problem with size. It is best if you have good Adobe software….otherwise it is useless as a scanner.

By: KrisH

KrisH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:21:24 +0000

Why is he a moron? The software does not include any printer drivers or print profiles for any reputable printing software. I have had this printer for a year and I am still trying to find the drivers for it because it is not usable with CS3. I hate this printer for that reason… It has never worked properly.

By: Kristina Harter

Kristina Harter — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:40:26 +0000

I have a Kodak 5300 All In One printer and I am having trouble getting it to print from Photoshop CS3. Where can I get the printer profiles and printer drivers for this printer?

I would like to love my printer but at this point I am hating it because I can’t print from Photoshop.

Any tips?

By: Leslie L Carbone

Leslie L Carbone — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:47:45 +0000

Christine…who did you speak to at Kodak. Just received my 4th replacement printer and print head and when I was speaking to someone in “Corporate” and mentioned I would like ink replaced as I have purchased ink and used it all up while on the phone with Kodak trying to fix my photo printing problems, I was told they DO NOT replace ink. Guess you got lucky. I am setting up my “new” replaced printed tomorrow and hoping 4th time is a charm.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:07:17 +0000

I’ve had the kodak EASYSHARE 5300 for little more than a year.
Its a clumsy and noisy peice of junk. One day it just stopped printing black ink, and we’ve changed the cartridge a million times. Some of the pictures I print come out in negative colours :S!

This is a disgrace, Kodak should be ashamed to sell these printers.

By: Mike L.

Mike L. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:21:43 +0000

I just found a way to use the scanner even though it has empty ink cartridges. If you remove and reinstall the cartridges and the printhead then it wants to do a calibration before printing anything. You can ignore the calibration request and scan documents. As long as you continue to ignore the calibration request you can scan to your hearts content.

Mike L.

By: Richard Price

Richard Price — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:30:27 +0000

Hi
Thought Id join in basically bought a second hand 5300 didn’t work a major appointment but the guys at Kodak were fantastic replaced it free of charge with inks, so then to start I am a real novice at computers so please feel like a space shuttle astronaut.

…Calibration needs to be done with high quality photo gloss paper i cut a piece of A4 size to fit, then push the photo paper tray all the way back on calibration the paper needs to be slightly away from the scanner edges.

…This dreadful software Kodak psychology a way round Ive used perfect uninstaller to un install the components I do not want and am left with Scanner driver and printer driver apparently installing with non of the custom boxes ticked does this, also try Freekapture ( scanning software simpler and faster than the Aio portal)
and similarly for the printer , way to go a usable machine.

Good calibration is vital..And my images are superb very good quality machine..Well done Kodak

Any other tips ?

By: Pim Delfgou

Pim Delfgou — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:10:51 +0000

I had a Kodak Easyshare 5100 printer for just over a year. It printed nicely at first but then the printouts gradually appeared washed out. I had some trouble with the black ink over the past two months and bought a Samsung CLP310 colour laser printer that was on sale that printed better quality prints. My Kodak printer unexpectedly caught fire January 4, 2009 and had to toss it out of the window of my apartment into the snow below. I suspected a short circuit in the printer as the breaker in the surge bar tripped a couple of times before Christmas when I used the scanner. I guess I’ll avoid Kodak printers if the one I had nearly burned my apartment down.

By: Jo A. Bryant

Jo A. Bryant — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:49:15 +0000

I’ve had my Kodak 5300 for eight months now with no major problems. I don’t print photos, only documents. Two weeks ago it stopped printing black. I did everything I knew (new cartridges, reinstall the driver, talked to a local tech, etc. Then I went to Kodak printer support and asked for a consultation with a tech. I got Tebogo M. and wrote my woes. He answered that he was “reviewing my problem”, made me wait an hour and a half, then typed that it had been too long and he was signing off.

I’m grinding my teeth. I came to this site hoping for an answer, and it looks like I got it: Quit hoping for help from Kodak and trash it.

By: Edward Smith

Edward Smith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:27:17 +0000

Hello Everybody,

Well after many months have gone by. I can now update you on my 5500.

I printed about 300 photos with all the misfeeds in the last one hundred I went back to my Canon 600. The prints from the Kodak were average. I moved two months ago and finally got the Kodak back up and running. I made 20 or so b&w copies which came out fine. The next time I used the machine. The black ink stop working. but it continue to print the other colors. So I put in a new cartriage and its barely printing in all colors. So I said well try another one. Maybe that first new one is bad. The second new one no ink came out at all. Turned the machine off, reinstalled the cartrige and still nothing.

After reading all the post the past year I know what to do. This weeks garbage pick up is Thursday.
I won’t be wasting valuable time talking to Kodak.

By: DAVID BRIDGE

DAVID BRIDGE — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:09:53 +0000

Just read all the comments!

what made me buy a 5100? my printer, like others I have read about,won’t print black since I changed the cartridges. It is less than a year old so I hope I can take it back and replace it for a printer scanner that will work on my new i-mac. Now the mac is a machine. I need to be surgically removed from it , I spend so much time up here on it my wife has forgotten what I look like.

By: Douglas J

Douglas J — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:02:44 +0000

I work for a computer retailer and we stopped selling these. When they work they are quite a good printer, print quality is ok and the printer’s functions are quite good. But the drama is “when they work”.

We initially got 50 units and a demonstrator in and sold them in the space of a few days. We thought that was a fantastic result. But over the next few days they started coming back. By the end of the first week we had about 30 of them returned Dead on Arrival. The rep assured us that the 60% failure rate was abnormal, and assured us that if we got more in they wouldn’t have the problems. So we tried again, this time a little more cautiously with 20 units. This lot were better - I think from memory about 5 of them got returned Dead on Arrival, so still about 25%. Compared to the other major brands where return rates are about 1%, this was disgusting. The Kodak rep left with his tail between his legs and we have refused to touch them since. That was a few months ago, and since then, of the ones that didn’t get returned in the DOA period, we have had numerous come back faulty. We have had numerous cases of Kodak replacing them and the replacement also being faulty etc.

There are a wide range of faults - varying from no power at all, smoking, scanner not working, jamming in the print and/or scan assembly, not recognising cartridges or heads, saying brand new ink tanks are empty, no communication with the computer etc, garbled colours, scan out of alignment, etc.

The concept behind them is sound, but they have been let down by very poor quality control.

By: mike m

mike m — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:14:24 +0000

this kodak printer is the biggest waste of time and money, a very big mistake. The first printer I bought from Office Depot didn’t work at all so I returned it and they gave me another one. It worked good for a little while until the ink cartrige was used up. I bought another cartridge and it still din’t work. After calling El Salvador for hours they sent me a new cartrige and printer head, which didn’t last anytime because of the dated memory chip they put in there printer head. The first time they tried to ship it to me it went to the wrong state. I resently bought a new ink cartrige and it doesn’t print. I will defently just though it in the trash were it belongs.

By: PtchsM

PtchsM — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:43:33 +0000

Well,hubby bought me the Kodak 5300 less than a year ago and the printhead is shot in it! I’m so ticked right now. The Printer was GREAT, until I replaced the second set of cartridges, now the printhead is gone in it. Can this be replaced or not? If not, this was quite an expensive lesson for us, and we cannot afford to keep buying printers. Good thing I have an HP backup…..and it still works just fine after several years of ownership!

thanks for any comments or help ASAP.

By: SoonToBeHPman

SoonToBeHPman — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:36:57 +0000

Got this printer as a Christmas gift in Dec 07. Set it up and all went well. Printed exactly two color photos (4×6) and 8 months later the ink monitor tells me I’m out of color ink. Replace the color ink cartridge a month ago and have not printed anything yet the ink monitor tells me one quarter of the color ink is gone. Tried using Kodak support but all they could think of was upgrading the firmware. Of course that was up to date so I was then told that the printer performs a head cleaning upon every start up so that’s why the ink level is going down. JUNK–I’m putting the printer back in it’s box and tossing it in the dumpster.