Kodak ESP5
Price: $899
Kodak claims this unit can cut down printing costs by up to 50 percent. It does so by the ingenious method of building the print head (usually found in every new ink cartridge) into the print mechanism itself. What this means to you is that black replacement cartridges cost a bargain $14.99, colour only $24.99, and you’ll get a comparable number of prints from each as you would from any other major brand.
The selling points don’t stop there though. Aside from Kodak’s infinitely neater system of feeding the paper into the front tray rather than in through the top is a document duplexer for two sided printing. With the cool black chassis, easy controls and a price in line with competitors, it’s the best value new multifunction printer we’ve seen this year. Rating: 4.5