Q: I am looking to buy a printer that would be used for my small home office, nothing too crazy expensive. but I also need it to print well on card stock... so preferably something with a direct pass-through paper load. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
A: I would advise you to absolutely avoid Kodak... Regardless of what appears to be lower ink prices.' Kodak's support system and drivers are probably worse than ***ANY*** other printer manufacturer in the industry, bar none. Forget sharing your printer to other computers, forget anything but a "canned" response to questions, I don't know if their support people CAN NOT read plain English questions, or whether they just FAIL to do so, but answers from them will NOT be answers to your question, unless your question happens to fit their canned responses. At the moment they only support a very limited number of operating systems, and even after more than a YEAR of promises, they do not yet have ANY kind of support for Linux even though the Linux community has offered to produce the drivers FREE for them, if they would only supply the specs needed to write the drivers. They are obviously either completely incompetent, idiots, or being paid by Microsoft not to release linux drivers. (Or a combination of the above) I wouldn't trust them a bit at this point... Supposedly Linux drivers have been in the works for over a year... Who knows if they will ever get it right (Or windows 2000 drivers, or the ability to share from a wireless print server... You can't even share between SUPPORTED operating systems... and who knows if they will EVER support the next version of windows?) I've also seen some complaints of problems with the print heads, not sure if that is a legitimate complaint, or just some users not doing something right. Since their support won't even get back to me to get some drivers so I can use the printer and test it myself, I can't verify or deny this. Stay away from them and go for a good printer that has decent after-market cartridges available for them. Many Epson/Canon printers have good after-market inks available, since thier print heads are not integrated into the cartridges themselves.