Real Kodak photos made simple Dock your Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera, press print, and create great-looking, borderless photos up to 4x6-in. (10x15 cm) in 90 seconds. Photos to treasure for a lifetime - Kodak XTRALIFE Lamination provides a special protective coating to produce photos that are highly durable, waterproof and last a lifetime. Kodak Color Science and continuous-tone, thermal dye transfer process ensure high-quality, true-to-life color photos every time. Award-winning ease-of-use Simply dock your camera and push a button to create beautiful photos from your Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera. Use the Kodak Printer Dock with or without a computer. Transfer pictures from the camera to computer at the touch of a button. Get back to shooting quickly - the Printer Dock recharges your Kodak Camera's battery in less than 3.5 hours. Start printing and sharing right out of the box with the enclosed Kodak Color Cartridge and Photo Paper Kit (10 prints) Expanded flexibility and printing options New, fun ways to print your pictures the way you want with 4 selectable sizes ranging from full photo - 4x6, 3x4 inch credit card size with borders to multiple wallets - 2x3-in, and mini photos - 1.3x2-in.. PictBridge compatible so you can print directly from any PictBridge-enabled digital camera. Print directly from most popular memory cards using the optional Kodak 8-in-1 Card Reader. Use with or without a computer With a computer
The EasyShare printer dock is, in a word, awesome. Despite a few minor flaws, it essentially solves the basic problem of digital photography, namely that we all have hard drives crammed with thousands of images and no actual physical photos (you remember, the kind you can put on your refrigerator and mail to your mom). And it solves this problem
affordably, at about 29 cents a print once you factor in the cost of paper and cartridges. But most important of all, the quality of the photos it prints is eye-wateringly good.
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| Kodak Xtralife coating makes prints waterproof and durable under typical home use. |
The EasyShare printer is a snap to set up, even for dedicated technophobes like myself. You simply snap the pieces into place, dock your compatible Kodak camera, and press the
Print button. Printing itself takes about 60 seconds. The 4 x 6-inch photo paper passes back and forth through the printer four times, allowing you to witness the application of each primary color and a final, invisible protective coating. Does it really deliver archival quality, as claimed? There's no way to know for sure until a few decades have passed, but the colors at least
look sturdily vibrant and crisp. The print quality is in fact much higher than what I have come to expect from drugstores for my film camera prints. The contours are sharp as a knife, the contrast pitch perfect. At the push of a button, the printer will produce multiple prints (two, six, or nine) on a single sheet, which is perfect for making wallet-sized snaps of the kids.
Among the above-mentioned minor flaws, number one is paper jams, which happen every eighth print or so. The jams are solved easily enough by unplugging and plugging the unit back in, but are still annoying. The second problem is that printing from a PC is not nearly as smooth and easy as printing directly from a Kodak camera. Installing the included software is easy enough, but more often than not, trying to print from my hard drive was a lesson in frustration. To get around the PC quandary, you can print directly from any PictBridge-enabled digital camera or from SD or MMC cards using the built-in card slot.
Quibbles aside, though, the EasyShare printer dock is essential for anyone wishing to complete the digital circle from virtual pictures to real-world photographs with glorious color and razor-sharp detail. --David Stoesz
Pros
- Affordability
- Outstanding picture quality
- Ease of use
Cons - Frequent paper jams
- Printing from PCs is a hassle
1 Great little printer...so easy to use!
I just have to say... this is the best purchase I've recently made, next to my new Kodak digital camera of course! It's so easy to use, and the pictures are of the same quality that you'd only expect to get from a professional film developing company, all in the convenience of my own home! It is a little costly (at 64 cents a print), but so worth it to me. Trust me when I say, you will love this little printer, especially if you're short on time! This printer literally prints the highest quality photos in only 60 seconds! Not to mention that it's so convenient to not have to fiddle with changing the batteries in my camera. Just set the camera on the docking station to charge up the rechargable batteries. Love it, love it, love it!
2 Fabulous!
Used with my CX7530, pictures are absolutely amazing, even without editing, sharp and vivid, and operation has been totally trouble free. Highly recommended.
3 Disappointed
This worked great the first 6 months... other than I can NEVER get 40 prints from the cartridges as stated. Now it is not printing as clear, leaving odd discolor on the prints. I used the cleaner and no difference. I also hate that it often will not grab the paper and will pop up as out of paper when it is not. Looking for a better replacement.
4 Nice addition to a Kodak Digital Camera
I purchased this printer dock to use with my Kodak EasyShare DX7590. So far, with the pictures I have printed, I have been very satisfied. No jams, no lines, no bends...just good quality photos. I wouldn't recommend however if a person has a lot of pictures to print to use the photo printer, it would probably be more beneficial to print them through an online retailer or take it to store as CVS or Target to print them out. But for a few prints here and there, it's a great in home system.
5 Don't waste your money
Like so many others, I jumped at the chance to get this product, putting it on the top of my 2004 Christmas list.
Now I wish I had never seen it. The pictures are okay, but everytime I print one there is an annoying line running up the left side. Sometimes stray colors get splattered on the image. And when the paper comes out of the printer it catches on the corner, so every picture I've done has an annoying little bend in it.
You're much better off taking your camera to a local drug or department store that has one of the big Kodak developing machines you can operate yourself. Those work great and the photos are much cheaper. As for this unit, I can only urge you strongly to forget it. What a waste of money!
6 E-A-S-Y is the word for this!!!!
I bought this printer dock for my CX7330 Kodak digital camera. This dock works great! I didn't even use the book for the instructions! I simply used the get started quick guide and it was so EASY! I couldn't believe it was so easy. It's definately worth the money! And it prints wonderfully!
7 Another exceptional product from Kodak
I bought this printer dock as a package with the CX7530 camera for my mother for Christmas right here from Amazon (they do have the best deals). The quality of the photos, printed from the dock are just stunning, just as if you had them developed at a camera store and better than those drug store photo labs. The finish is amazing. Like most older folks my mom loves taking pictures and having the printer dock allows her to print pictures in the comfort and safety of her own home. Kodak has a reputation for easy to use products and this is no exception. My mom is 75 and was intimidated by the whole digital transition. She had no problem adjusting and loves her camera and printer dock and is equally impressed with the photos. I'll be buying a printer dock for myself very soon. Highly recommended, you won't be disappointed. Another quality product from Kodak.
8 wonderful, rich colors
i got the printer with my kodak digital camera. the pictures come out as sharp as those from a good photo shop. no computer is needed, though if you hook it to one, you can e-mail photos right from the printer dock! just put the camera in the dock and hit the print button. this is a rock solid performer that has been used hundreds of times. the colors are rich and deep, and they don't run like ink-jet computer printers because they use a dye sublimation method. in sum, these prints feel and look like normal photos. watching the little machine work is a kick -- it passes the paper through three times and finally adds a clear coat layer to protect the print for years. the printer is a blast and a hit with my friends/family! excellent job by a great company!
9 Great Printer
I have read some people that say the cost of the prints is around 50 cents a print. This is correct, however the extra cost is the protective coating that is put on the print to make it last for a long long time. You get better paper and better prints from home. If you have one of those HP or Dell photo printers they will wash clean if you get them wet, these will not wash clean when they get wet. Some people have said that the prints get jammed in the printer. It may be because people tear off the tabs on each end. Those are required for the printer to print an image. I have nothing but good things to say about the kodak line of products. I had just purchased a new L753 and it is awesome with all the settings you should not have many pictures you have to delete.
10 Unbelievable!!
I honestly do not know how I did without this before. Prints beautiful pictures from my camera and computer. I am going to buy a second one to send to my son in college.
11 Wonderful!! Just Love It!!
I bought the printer dock plus because Kodak no longer makes printer docks for the 4000 series. Customer support at Kodak recommended this printer dock as the next best thing. It has a built in SD card reader in the side of the printer dock. That works awesome. I am still able to print pictures from my computer plus with the SD card reader. I love it!! The pictures print out beautifully. I am quite amazed by it. I love the convenience of being able to print pictures from home then having to make a special trip to the store. I would recommend this product to anyone!! It's so easy to use. I also recommend using the Kodak color cartridge and photo paper kit, because once you run out of photo paper then you know your out of ink. The "Auto Enhance" feature will touch up your pictures to make them come out perfectly. Never had a paper jam once!!
12 Excellent photo but feature and software limitation urks me
First off, let me say that I am a brave for trying to pair a cannon A85 (has picbridge) with this printer. Yes, it works fine and the photo's look great. My biggest beef with it is that you should not count on the auto enhance feature to work easily with anything other than a kodak camera. This feature is nice since it corrects many underlight conditions or color issues. If you plug a non-kodak picbridge camera into it and try and use the auto enchance feature, it just will not let you. A work around (compact flash only) is to use an external lexar card reader and plug it into the kodak printer using print order from the camera to tag each photo that you want to print. If you do this, auto enhance will work. My theory is that Kodak is trying to sell more cameras or card readers (the kodak brand card reader appears to be lexar) by doing this. They also lock this feature out for any software other than their easyshare software which is silly. One other problem I have with it is that you must set your camera to a special 4x6 photo size before you take the picture to insure that the printer does not crop the image. They should have a scaling feature to make sure you do not lose any part of a regular full size image when printing. Many picture editing software packages let you do this such as Microsoft picture it (I use this to overcome this cropping problem). I do not like to take my pictures in a lower resolution just for printing 4x6's. I may want to make the same picture an 8x10 using my epson photo printer sometime later. The easyshare software it comes with needs a bit of work. It is useable, but it could you the auto scale feature to make sure that non of a full size picture is lost while printing (they have one, but it puts white bars on the side of your picture-- get out the sizzors!). It is kinda clutzy to use as well, but it is usable. If you have a kodak camera, I would highly recommend it. If not, you may end up a bit frustrated if you want to maximize the full capabilities of this printer.
13 Unsatisfactory Product.
This is a waste of money. It will not feed the paper properly, and even when the paper enters the unit, it will jam about half the time. When the paper is finally working, then the ink cartridge jams.
If this is the best that Kodak can do, maybe they should go bankrupt. It is going back as soon as possible.
14 Be careful with the paper
I got the printer dock as a christmas gift. At first it worked great, but then the paper got stuck and there's no way of getting it out. The pictures were okay. I recommend a photo lab!!
15 How many software engineers does it take to print a picture?
None! It can't be done with this printer!!
I cannot begin to tell you how frustrated I have been with this purchase. This is BY FAR the worst purchase of my life.
I purchased this unit with high hopes based on great reviews and terrific print quality. Kodak had earned my trust with an earlier digital camera, so we purchased a DX6340 and printer dock 6000.
In short, the printer dock has NEVER worked correctly. NOT ONCE has the printer paper correctly fed through the unit automatically - I have had to CAREFULLY hand feed each individual sheet for every picture printed. When finally sucessful in getting the unit to accept a sheet of paper, the unit jams 50% of the time. Check Kodak's website - their 'solution' is to unplug the unit from the wall for 5 seconds, then plug it back in. Great, now it just spits the paper back out at me, ruining it and the print. People say the paper costs $0.50 per print, well, in practice it's costed me $1.00+ because the print only turns out half the time.
So, to sum it up, the 'convenience' of printing at home takes me 10-15 minutes of frustrating manual work and costs $1.00+ per print. Kodak has been absolutely no help whatsoever throughout this, and their software is simply aweful. Neither the hardware nor software are adept at error recovery, which you're frequently thrown into. And as a bonus feature, the kodak software autoupdater runs 'backweb' - can anyone tell me whether or not backweb really is spyware or not?
I'll not purchase another kodak product as long as I live - which this product has probably knocked 5 years off my life due to the frustration and aggrivation.
16 Outstanding quality, but a wee bit overpriced...
Now don't get me wrong. The printer dock itself is FABULOUS price-wise, especially if you buy a refurbished one off eBay like I did (87 bucks!!). Same one year warranty applies direct from Kodak. I was amazed at the quality of the prints. It's really neat to watch it work, and it's pretty quick. The prints look just as perfect as if they had come from the lab!
I am a scrapbook fanatic, so this printer comes in handy... but there is one problem... the paper/cartridge refill kits are ridiculously expensive! Buying on Amazon they average about 50 cents per print, but buying from your local store it's about 65 cents! Considering my local drugstore offers the same exact quality digicam prints for 29 cents each (10 cents on sale days and 10 free prints per month in the Sunday flyers), it's a pretty big rip off. If you buy the larger 80 pack the cost is about 46 cents per print - still far too high, in my opinion.
Other than the ridiculously inflated cost of the refill kits, I love this printer! The prints look fantastic, and the best part is the dock came with a rechargeable battery pack for my camera! The dock acts as a charging base as well, and it has a status bar to tell you how far the charge has progressed.
All in all, it couldn't be more simple - the dock is fantastic! But Kodak needs a reality check on the prices they want for refill kits.
17 Fast and easy to transfer and print photos!
Got this little honey together with a DX6440 earlier this year and have been pleased as punch ever since! The camera takes great pictures at every setting - night, landscape, auto and portrait. Got the camera because of the really, really close-up focus range (just inches from the subject!) and I haven't been disappointed. I'm no great photographer -- but this camera and dock make me look like one! I love the instant transfer feature and the photo film/paper. Photos look like they've been professionall processed (provided I remove the border carefully and completely to not leave any scraggly edges). I also bought the case and travel adapters. They come in really handy to supercharge my batteries outside of the US. Love it, love it, love it!
18 Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock
I purchased the Easyshare printer dock and I have enjoyed it very much. It is fun, easy to use and the pictures are great. I highly recommend it for anyone !!!
19 High Quality Prints
I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the pictures that come from this little printer. I like to do some editing on the computer before printing, and that's no problem. I've printed from several different programs. The computer sees it just like any other printer. The paper feed isn't 100% reliable. The PH40 paper/ink kit costs $20 from Amazon for 40 prints. I don't know what math everyone else is using, but that comes out to $0.50/print with my math.
20 Printer does not power off.
I have had this printer for a couple of weeks now. The prints are of great quality, but the blasted thing does not power off (unless of course you unplug it). Kodak support is giving me the runaround, as one support person states that it is a defect and another states that it is a "feature" to remain on and that a power switch was not included in order to save on cost. They have also indicated that there will be no firmware update to resolve the issue. The camera dock that shipped with my camera does not have this problem. Has anyone else encountered this "feature"? Poor design and customer support!
21 Great Quality!
The Kodak Easyshere series has quickly become my favorite in digital photography. The printer is easy to use and you will be amazed at the quality of your prints. No more driving to the drug store to get a print you want and no more wasted money on double prints! At about .29 a print, it's affordable too!
22 This printer dock rocks!
You will be amazed at the photos this thing prints. Better than anything that ever came out of an inkjet! It will print with or without a computer. As with most digital cameras, outdoor pictures look great, but indoor flash pictures may need to be touched up in a photo-editing program using a computer. The dock uses the same cartridge used in older versions of the printer dock, but check the list of cameras that are compatible with this dock. It will print from any PictBridge digital camera via a USB connection. It prints using thermal dye transfer. Basically, it's a roll of plastic film with yellow, red, blue, and a protective coating for each picture. I have tried rewinding the roll and using it to print new pictures, but it produces a ghost image of the original print on the new picture. Kodak pairs each cartridge with 40 sheets of tabbed glossy photo paper. It is magical to watch it work. The dock grabs the photo paper and sends it through the dock 4 times: once each to apply the yellow, red, blue, and then one additional pass to apply the protective water-resistant coating. The pictures look awful while the yellow and red are being applied, then suddenly look real after the blue goes on. How it doesn't mess up the paper placement between each pass is beyond me, but the result is a stunningly sharp photo. The perforated tabs break off after printing, making the photo borderless. The only downsides I can think of is that photos are limited to 4 X 6" or smaller multiples and it doesn't work on batteries so you must be plugged into an AC outlet to print or transfer. I ordered this dock from Amazon.com 6 days before I got an email from Kodak saying that it was available.
23 Great Product!
I bought this item after a bought the camera while my olypus is in the shop. the 410 stylus failed after 2 months. But that is another story. The great part about this dock is that it make wonderful photos. Just like the photo lab. Yes the price per print is higher, but I am not the kind of person who prints alot. But once in awhile I am asked for a print. I have made 12 prints so far. The best part is I did a family photo for my Pastor's family who mom had just passed. Went home, retouched the photos, and print 8 glossy beatiful photos one for each family member. The dock works with any photo you have on file. The photos are stunning. The refill kit come with a idiot proof cartridge, and 40 blank 4 X 6 kodak papers. The photos lamiate at the last step of the process so you have a photos you can actually touch and hang in the light. After 10 years of inkjet photos I am very very pleased. The camera is fair quality but what do you want for a c-note? It come with rechargable batteries and as long as you put it on the cradle when you are done it's fine. Also this unit works without a computer! Also in the 4X6 space you can print 2, 4, or 9 photos. Off the camera only. A excellent product, considering about 5 years ago, when I bought my first digital, a similar product retailed over $500. Good Job amazon and kodak! (Don't forget to order a replactment pack of papers and cartridge, which come together for a very resonable price from amazon. Also you can buy a carrying bag, which is like having a portable photo lab.
