A couple months ago I decided to buy the Kodak ESP 7 All-in-One printer, as I’d read many great reviews about it and its photo-printing capabilities. I guess if you want to print on normal non-photographic paper (documents and whatnot) or make full-bleed photos, it works fine. However, if you want to put a border around your image (so the printer does not auto-crop your image) on a photographic print, then the gloss coating (which is one of the inks in the printer’s color ink cartridge) will not print on the side borders of your image. I contacted Kodak customer service in all ways possible and they told me the same crap over and over again. After going through all the steps the Kodak techs recommended I finally decided to return the printer. Their customer service is terrible and they didn’t reply to any of the emails I sent them. So, my review is as follows: if you don’t care about your images getting cropped by the printer, get it if you want, but if you care about your images and want to print full-frame photos with a border around them so they’re not cropped, get an Epson Inkjet printer (a little more expensive, but worth it)… and don’t waste your time with the Kodak ESP 7 AIO… or any of the Kodak All-In-One Printers for that matter.

Kodak’s main selling point with this printer is its affordable ink – which is true – but if I can’t get the printer to do what I want, the cost of the ink is irrelevant.