That's because the ESP 5, while a decent all-in-one, is not in quite the same league as similar machines from Epson or Canon, and I noticed that the printer is now discounted at Kodak's site. For one thing, it's not very fast; a four-page Excel spreadsheet took over a minute to print, three color graphics pages took 1:32, and a large PDF file took an average of 28 seconds per page.