

The arrangement of twin paper trays, one taking 100 sheets of plain paper up to A4 and the other taking up to 40 sheets of photo paper, is identical to the ESP 9’s and works just as well, with automatic loading of photo paper when you request a photo print. Here, though, it’s an LCD panel, rather than the brighter OLED in the more expensive machine. The control panel swings out from the front and, although it doesn’t have a touch panel, it does have the same size 76mm colour display. The scanner’s top cover has smoothly rounded side edges and a simple pattern of inset squares in its lid. This is a smart, good-looking machine, decked out in frosted and high gloss black. That’s true of the ESP 7, too, which is basically a cut-down version of the top of the range machine, without the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) the touch-screen control panel and fax. As we mentioned in our recent review of the Kodak ESP 9, all of Kodak’s inkjet all-in-ones since it first entered the market have been based around the same print engine.
