As well as a full range of consumer cameras, the company produces neat photo printers, based on continuous-tone, thermal dye transfer.
Kodak Easyshare Pd3 Printer Dock Plus Series 3The best selling of these is the EasyShare printer dock plus series 3 (EasyShare printer dock from now on), designed to mate directly with a range of Kodak cameras, including the one the company supplied for evaluation, the P880.Kodak Easyshare Pd3 Printer Dock Full Range OfThese adapter plates are provided with the cameras, so there was one for the P880 in its box. Thankfully, they only come on together during the start-up diagnostic, but they emphasise that this printer is more feature-rich than Canons Selphy CP500 or Samsungs SPP-2040, both of which use the same printing engine as the Kodak device. It can do red-eye reduction on its own, without a PC present, and it can show a slide-show of your photos on a TV, using the supplied video lead. This produces prints without the dots of inkjet or laser print and is known as continuous tone printing. This way, you can use the LCD to review and select images for printing. It provides simple photo editing, as well as image management, online print ordering and email attachment. A fourth pass places a transparent gloss layer over the print, to protect it from water and scratches. Although each pass is relatively quick, there are four of them, so the overall print speed is unimpressive. The P880 camera supplied by Kodak for this review is an 8megapixel device, which produced some well-balanced and highly-detailed photos, but with this size of image, the long print times could be directly related to the amount of data being processed. The level of detail belies the notional resolution of 300ppi and even areas of shadow in our test prints were as well reproduced as weve seen them. Working out the running costs on the EasyShare printer dock involves just one division. Kodak supplies consumables in pack suitable for 40, 80, 120 or 160 prints. That gives a cost of 19p per print, which is very competitive with the best inkjet running costs, and up to 50 per cent cheaper than other thermal dye printers. It may not be the fastest photo-printer on the planet and its limited to 15 x 10cm prints, but if thats what you want, and especially if you have a dockable Kodak camera, it a great choice. We use industry standard tests in order to compare features properly.
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