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By setting the Eco Button to Mode 1, you’ll use 20 per cent less ink than in standard printing, while in Mode 2, you’ll use 30 per cent less. The printer enables easy wireless printing from smartphones, tablets, PCs or laptops and, with the free Kodak Verité Printer app, it lets you scan wirelessly to smart devices with a single touch. Secure printing from a PC or laptop is also available through a USB 2.0 cable (although this is not supplied with the machine).

The Kodak Verite 55XL Plus printer runs with two ink cartridges: the Genuine Black Kodak 5 Ink and the Genuine Tri-Colour Kodak 5 Ink. High Capacity options are also available, containing double the volume of ink at less than twice the cost.

Advantages

For an economically priced printer, you not only have the option of reducing your ink consumption appreciably thanks to the clever Eco button feature, but you’ll get a creditable 20 pages per minute of black-and-white prints and 4.2 pages per minute for colour prints.

Removing and replacing the snap-in, snap-out ink cartridges is exceptionally fast and simple.

Disadvantages

Apart from a marginal loss of shadow detail in colour photo printing, there are no disadvantages to this value-for-money machine that we can discern.