Released by Kodak:
Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock 4000 Makes In-Home, 4 x 6 Kodak Picture Printing Possible for Millions of Kodak EasyShare Digital Camera Owners
New Model Compatible With EasyShare CX/DX 3000 and 4000-Series Digital Cameras
05 August 2003 - Eastman Kodak Company continues to make printing Kodak pictures at home truly one-button simple with the introduction of the Kodak EasyShare printer dock 4000. This dock, similar to the popular Kodak EasyShare printer dock 6000, produces durable, borderless 4 x 6-inch Kodak pictures in as little as 90 seconds directly from the EasyShare CX/DX 3000 and 4000-series digital cameras - with or without a computer.
The printer dock 4000 gives people the ultimate in home printing convenience and the immediacy of Kodak photos at home. It provides triplefunctionality:one-touch picture transfer to a connected computer, rapid camera battery recharging, and continuous tone thermal dye transfer printing. The application of an exclusive XtraLife laminate coating makes the photos durable and water resistant. The printer dock 4000 will be available beginning this month at a suggested retail price of £199.99.
The printer dock 4000 is a convenient printing option for users of the CX/DX 3000 and 4000 series of Kodak EasyShare cameras, including purchasers of thenew Kodak EasyShare DX4530 zoom digital camera. The result of Kodak'scontinuing efforts to provide people with traditional photographic qualityin the digital world, the printer dock 4000 produces pictures with vividcolour. People simply use the on-camera share/print function to easilyselect which images to print, dock the camera, and get their Kodak photoswith a touch of a button. In addition, people can use the new printer dock4000 as a photo printer when connected to a computer.
"The printer dock combines the one-touch transfer simplicity and battery recharging of a dock with thermal printing to make it easier than ever to print 4 x 6 photos - the most preferred picture size worldwide," said James McConnell, Regional Business General Manager EAMER, of Kodak's Digital & Applied Imaging operation. "As a complement to the award-winning EasyShare printer dock 6000, the new printer dock 4000 enables the millions of EasyShare CX/DX 3000 and 4000 series camera owners to take advantage of a simple, quick way to get Kodak photos."
The printer dock 4000 comes equipped with a sample photo paper and cartridge system that enables consumers to print 10 Kodak pictures. Because refill packs include colour cartridges and a matching quantity of photo paper, users don't have to worry about running out of supplies in the middle of a project. Combined refill colour cartridge and photo paper packs have a suggested retail price of £19.99 for 40 prints.
The award-winning Kodak EasyShare digital photography system - consisting of cameras, software, docks and printer docks, inkjet and thermal papers, and accessories - makes it simple for anyone to take, organise, share, and printhigh quality digital pictures. More information on Kodak EasyShareproductsis available at www.kodak.com/go/EasyShare.
Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $12.8 billion in 2002, the company comprises several businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture, storage and output products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Display, which designs and manufactures state-of-the- art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials.
(Kodak, EasyShare and XtraLife are trademarks of Eastman Kodak
Company.) 2003
