Kodak ESP 3.2 review

In colour the printer was quick to deliver photos, taking just four minutes to print six borderless postcard-sized shots, but slow when printing graphics on plain paper: it completed our 24-page test at just 3ppm. Photo quality was unremarkable, but plain paper prints were more impressive, let down only by some banding in areas of solid colour. The results from the scanner were about average, with fairly good colour accuracy and sharpness, but the printer was less good at preserving the detail among the darkest shades of an original.

The ESP 3.2 supports printing via the cloud and from smartphones or tablets, but there’s no AirPrint support, so iPad and Android users will need to download the free Pic Flick app. This is easy to use and worked well, but it’s focused on photos. Printing other documents requires Document Print which isn’t as slick and is only available for Android.

Kodak is keen to stress its printers’ low running costs, and the ESP 3.2 is one of the cheapest home inkjets we’ve seen to run. There’s little else to commend it, however, so unless cheap ink is critical we’d recommend the similar but better Canon Pixma MG4150, which is now available for just £70.