Kodak EasyShare 5300: 10 cent photos (page 3: Office quality)

Office quality: color fidelity and precision

The following extracts are used to compare the Kodak ES 5300 with its Canon and HP rivals. Also, on the bottom of the page we give you a laser printer, the HP Color LaserJet 2600n.

Graph, color original version	Original text
X3 color enlargement	Original Text enlarged X3
Kodak EasyShare 5300	Kodak EasyShare 5300
Brother DCP-440CN	Brother DCP-440CN
Canon Pixma MP510	Canon Pixma MP510
Canon Pixma MP600	Canon Pixma MP600
Epson RX560	Epson RX560
HP C6180	HP C6180
Lexmark X9350	Lexmark X9350
HP Color LaserJet 2600n	HP Color LaserJet 2600n

Our opinion

If we don’t compare them to the others and they are quickly looked at, the 5300’s results are entirely satisfactory. However, if we take the time to carefully examine them, we can find defects where colors border each other. This printer behaves almost like Epson photo models, and there are small interactions between adjacent colors. We can see this on the yellow text, which is partially encroached upon by the green background. The black lines also pose a problem. In reality, it’s less accentuated than on our enlargement, but we can see this type of ink blotter effect on the right.

However, text printed on a white background is close to perfection. Another reason to be satisfied here is that we will see in later tests that the speed in printing text is very good.