Is there any way to override the color cartridge monitor, apparently tied to number of pages printed, not amount of ink used? That is the problem I have been having with Kodak printers and forced cartridge purchasing. I have gone through two cycles of cartridges, regular capacity and high capacity, with same results. If I remove and replace the same color cartridge, it knows and says color is out, needs to be replaced. About the time it says I need to replace the black, it says I need to replace the color also. I verify black only at every print job, regardless of program I am using.Īfter an appropriate number of pages printed with black ink only, never using any color ink, the printer monitor gauge shows the color ink level dropping along with the black. I choose only black ink, all the time, every print job.
Not photos, not color in document printing. Often I find draft setting gives satisfactory results. I set printer options in control panel, and check at each print job system dialog, use black ink only. I load new cartridges, one black, one color. Scrappy Kodak pitted its small and unremarkable product line against a relentless flow of shiny new machines from better established and better capitalized competitors, like Brother, Canon, Epson, and HP.Īccording to Keith Kmetz of IDC, “Kodak’s market share never achieved the levels the company hoped for, and Kodak’s financial struggles made the company’s consumer inkjet effort very difficult.” Realistically, it probably never had much of a chance unless it made a fundamentally better printer.OK, here is my Kodak printer issue, similar to past Epson issues.
Robert Cardin Models like the ESP 3.2 were slow. Unfortunately, it was still slower than a printer designed for office use should be. The one Kodak printer I was ever willing to recommend, the Office Hero 6.1, had a good feature set and good overall print quality, not just for photos. The products tended to be slow, and while photo quality was excellent, other features and capabilites tended to be underwhelming. That installed base has never been big, because Kodak’s printers have never been that good.
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