#KODAK AIO HOME CENTER SOFTWARE INSTALL#
#KODAK AIO HOME CENTER SOFTWARE DRIVER#

#KODAK AIO HOME CENTER SOFTWARE DRIVER#

The printer ships with a helpful driver disc that walks you through the installation process and includes Kodak's All-in-One Home Center software. Using Kodak's advertised ink costs and estimated page yields, the cost per page is roughly 3.7 cents per page of black ink and 11.3 cents for color, making the 2170 one of the most affordable printers on the market in terms of the cost of consumables.

#KODAK AIO HOME CENTER SOFTWARE INSTALL#

Kodak also redesigned the black and tricolor inks so that the printheads are physically separate, which requires a little more work to install at first, but saves you money in the long term since Kodak doesn't have to ship printheads with every cartridge. Instead, the company joins the rest of the industry by using a hinged design that allows the lid on the 2170 to stay open by itself, allowing easy access to the ink cartridge bay. We're thankful that Kodak finally ditched the thin plastic arm that lifted up the cover of the ink bay on older printer models. Still, we expect some IT professionals will find the lack of wired networking a deal-breaker. We set up the wireless connection easily enough by entering in our network name and password, and were able to get working in less than 5 minutes. Strangely, there's no Ethernet port on the back for a wired network connection. We won't knock Kodak too much for this oversight, but large offices will need to refill the tray frequently.ДЄlthough Kodak markets the 2170 as an office printer, there are only two ways to connect it to an accompanying computer: Wi-Fi and USB. On the downside, the overall paper capacity is low, considering that competing printers like the Canon Pixma MG6120 can hold 150 sheets in the cassette with another 150 sheets loaded into the autodocument feeder.

Additionally, the paper input tray has a smart sensor that automatically recognizes the size and type of paper you're inserting and adjusts the printing preferences accordingly, so you won't waste precious photo paper.

The $50 price difference between the C310 and the 2170 goes a long way, with the 2170 offering plenty of extra options like a 25-page autodocument feeder and a rear-loading, 150-sheet paper input tray that marks a vast improvement over older Kodak models that used a clunky, unreliable feeder situated underneath the printer. There's also a small green Wi-Fi indicator LED on the right side of the control panel, and just below the buttons you'll find a multimedia card reader for Memory Stick, xD-Picture Card, SD, and USB via the PictBridge-compatible port just above it. (Addititionally are some of the controversy over Kodak claims for cost-per-print 4 x 6 photos.Kodak builds the 2170 with the same general design as the Kodak ESP C310, but instead of a small cockpit on top, the 2170 has a control panel that sits at a fixed angle on the front of the machine, supporting a diminutive 1.5-inch LCD display and a host of shortcut buttons for directional scrolling through menus, a keypad for dialing fax numbers, and shortcut buttons to start the copy, fax, scan, and photo functions. Kodak estimates that black-text page will only cost about 3 cents to print, as color pages will cost about 7 cents while the second cost is very low, we cannot verify them, such as Kodak does not include the details on volume of ink in each tank. Black tank $10 cost to Exchange, while color tank costs $15. The rest of the colors in the standard tank of the color will be black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Kodak claims six-color printing is misleading, however, because the black tank is designed only for the text prints, while probably wrong 'ink's' tank in colors are really transparent layer that is applied to the photo to complete and the protection. One tank holding the pigment-based black ink, while the other holds five dye-based inks.

EasyShare 5500 employs similar two-ink tank system utilized by his younger brother, EasyShare 5300.

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