Scan Features 1.50 The scan features for the ESP 3 are all in the Kodak AiO Home Center and consist of whether you want the scan output to be a color picture, a black and white picture, a color restored picture, a color document, or a black and white document. After selecting an output option, you can either go straight to scanning your item or previewing it before your officially scan it on to your PC. Scan Speed 5.48 The scanning software for the ESP 3 was a bit tricky when it came to choosing the resolution size.  There's a separate configuration section on the Kodak Home Center for just the scanner, but it makes no difference when you execute a scan through Kodak Home Center's Scan command.  If you're going to execute a scan from the Kodak software, it must be chosen in the scan section itself.  Above is the scan window where the resolution changes should be made. You can switch back and forth between basic (shown in the top right hand corner of the window) and advanced (which the screen is on now in the above window).  The ESP 3 didn't do well on the scan test. Although it was on par with other printers in the lower resolutions like 75 and 150, it didn't do well in the higher resolution scans of 600 and 1200. The ESP 3 produced the slowest scans in all of the 600 to 1200 resolution scan tests.  It did especially poor in the 1200 resolution 8.5x11-ink text document.  Most of the 1200 resolution scans failed several times.  Although a warning was giving at the beginning of some of the 1200 resolution scans, warning that it may stall the PC, it ended up freezing it and producing errors before completely closing the software.  This isn't a problem with the computer (we've done 1200dpi scans from this system with other printers), but seems to be a problem with the printer software.   Kodak ESP 3 Scanning Times in Seconds Size 4x6 photo 8.5x11photo 8.5x11 text 8.5x11 text Resolution    600 600 600 1200 Kodak ESP 3 67.89 87.36 139.12 576 Kodak EasyShare 5300 49 51 51 Fail HP Photosmart C5180 57 161 58.8  254.5 Canon Pixma MX850 n/a 30.84 18.53 Not Possible   Scan Color Quality Like the Color Accuracy segment in the Photo Performance section, we measure the color quality of the scan by scanning the Colorchecker Chart (displayed below) and then running it through a program we use called Imatest, which tests how accurately the ESP 3 scanned the colors. The ESP 3, again, had problems accurately capturing colors through it scan feature.  Although it was pretty good with yellows, it gravely missed greens, blues and reds.  With that said, its overall performance in color accuracy was better in the scan than in the print version. If you recall, the mean color error for the printed chart was 9.36, for the scanned feature it's 8.62.  Not a big improvement or a score to be proud of, it is better than what the ESP 3 printed out.

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