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Copy Features (7.00)
The copy features on the 5300 are standard fare, with settings for quantity, color or black and white, quality (draft, normal, best), scaling, and brightness (-3 to +3). Within the AIO Home Center, the Copy settings tab allows users to set the same options. However, choosing photo layout brings up several additional layout options, including bordered; borderless; 3, 4, or 9 per page; and 2’ x 2’, 3’ x 3’, or 4’ x 4’ poster. Brightness can also be set, with gradations from -3 to +3.
Copy Speed (4.18)
The Easyshare 5300’s copy speeds were midland compared to the other two all-in-one photo printers tested. Page per minute rates for black text were nearly twice that of the HP Photosmart C5180, but only about two-thirds of the Canon Pixma MP600’s rate.
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Copy Speeds in Pages per Minute
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Text
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Graphics
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Canon Pixma MP600
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2.67
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1.12
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Kodak EasyShare 5300
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1.56
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0.90
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HP Photosmart 5180
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0.86
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0.77
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Copy Color Quality (5.88)
The ES5300’s color copy quality went the way of the print color scores. It scored well below the other two all-in-ones in our lab. The Kodak printer’s uncorrected Δ C value, which is an expression of how far the printer’s colors deviated from the ideal Gretag Macbeth Colorchecker chart values, was 8.51, compared to errors just below 7 for the other two printers. In addition, the ES5300’s mean saturation was 94%, meaning the printer undersaturated colors. The HP printer scored only slightly better, while the Canon printer scored 108 percent.
The chart below shows where the Kodak printer’s color values fall within the sRGB color space. The circles represent the printers’ values and the squares, the ideals. Many of the ES5300’s colors deviate considerably from the ideal colors, with many of the greens, yellows, and oranges trending toward the center of the color space. This move toward white means undersaturation is occurring. Dark flesh tones scored well, but lighter skin tones showed up redder than the ideal. Blues were aligned with the ideal colors fairly well, except for cyan, which strayed well toward blue.
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