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Warm-up 4.78
The warm-up time for the Kodak ESP 3 ranged in between times but average out to be about 28 seconds. The ESP 3 doesn't shy away from making a noisy start-up. In fact, the ESP 3 serenades while starting up with a tone so unpleasant, it could rival an alarm clock. The ESP 3’s start-up was also 3 seconds longer than the MX850, which took 25 seconds to warm up. The ESP 3 did come far under the HP Photosmart C5180, which took an astounding 40 seconds to warm up.
Power Usage 7.20
The Kodak ESP 3 was moderate on its power usage in comparison. Although the Kodak ESP 3 did not have an idle phase, it’s ready mode took up 4 watts. The ESP 3 used the least power, and was better than the even the HP Photosmart C5180 which needed 5.6 watts to stay in ready mode and the Kodak EasyShare 5300 which required a high 13 watts.
The ESP 3 didn’t keep this low usage theme through its off usage, taking up 4 watts. It matched the usage of the HP Photosmart C5180 that also took up 4 watts but lost to the Canon MX850 took up only 1 watt. The ESP faltered in printing and cleaning, coming in second and third place, respectively, with 14 watts in printing and 15 watts in cleaning.
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Power Usage (watts)
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Off
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Idle
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Ready
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Printing
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Self-Cleaning
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Kodak ESP 3
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4
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n/a
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4
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14
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15
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Kodak EasyShare 5300
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6
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6
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13
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24
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30.5
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HP Photosmart C5180
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4
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5
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5.6
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12
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n/a |
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Canon Pixma MX850
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1
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6
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7.5
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18
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12.5
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Document Speed 5.02
The ESP 3 made decent timings in its document speed tests. It averaged third place in text printing with its speed of 5.45 pages per minute and averaged third place again in graphic printing with its speed of 1.70 pages per minute. This was disappointing because of the compared printers, the ESP 3 is the only one without a fax feature, leaving more room to improve in other areas like print speed and quality. The Kodak ESP 3 only out-did a previous Kodak printer, the EasyShare 5300 and that doesn’t say much for the improvement in the ESP 3’s performance. While it’s good that Kodak has improved its print speed in the ESP 3, it still isn’t doing a good job staying on par with its competitors. The HP Photosmart was the ESP 3’s closest performer outdoing the ESP 3 in text print speed by 0.15 pages per minute and graphic speed by 0.87 pages per minute.
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Document Print Speeds
in Pages per Minute (ppm)
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8.5" x 11" Text
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8.5" x 11" Graphics
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Kodak ESP 3
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5.45
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1.70
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| Kodak EasyShare 5300 |
1.59
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1.33
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| HP Photosmart C5180 |
6.00
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2.57
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| Canon Pixma MX850 |
10.64
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3.32
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