The above is the error message that displayed when a paper jam occurred. Instead of acknowledging or displaying what the problem was, it simply displayed instructions on what to do, which actually made it more annoying and tedious because it didn't work. Even after following these instructions several times, the ESP 3 persisted to produce paper jams during copying.
In terms of speed, when the printer was able to shape up and produce some copies, it was pretty fast. It took about 21 seconds to copy a black and white text document and nearly 47 seconds to copy a photograph, making the copy rate of a document about 2.8 pages per minute and the copy rate of a photograph about 1.28 pages per minute. With all the fuss the ESP 3 gave, this was impressive because its copy speed was able to beat all three of the compared printers. It especially through the HP C5180 out of the water, which came in at .86 pages per minute for text documents and .77 pages per minute for photographs. The Kodak 5300 came in second place with is semi-fast copy speed of 1.56 text documents per minute and .90 photographs per minute.
Copy Color Quality 6.68
Like the print test in the photo performance section and the scan test in the scan section, we check the color accuracy of the copy as well. In case you want to make copies of photographs or high quality and color business presentation graphs and so on, it's important to test the color accuracy of the copier to ensure your copy will be more exact than not.
The good news is that copy feature of the ESP 3 is better at matching color than the printer and the scanner. The bad news is that there's still a significant amount of color error, which for the ESP 3 is 7.48. Show below is the graph of the results.
In this chart, the squares represent the original color, and the circles represent the copied version. The farther the boxes are from the circles, or the longer the lines are, the further the copied color was from the original color. So the ESP 3 did do a poor job of accurately representing blues, greens and reds, which is similar to the misses it produced in its scans.
