Released by Eastman Kodak Company:
New Kodak Easyshare Printer Dock Compatible with Other Manufacturers’ Digital Cameras; Extends Ability to Print Kodak Pictures at Home
Latest Model Incorporates Pictbridge Standard for Direct-from-Camera Printing; Also Adds Direct-from-Memory Card Printing
Hemel Hempstead, May 4 — Presenting an encore to last year’s highly successful Kodak Easyshare printer dock introduction, Eastman Kodak Company today announced that its latest model is compatible with multiple brands of digital cameras. The new version, available worldwide beginning this June for just £149.99 RRP, incorporates Pictbridge technology for connecting to other manufacturers’ cameras, an optional external memory card reader, and a dedicated multi-function connector for Kodak Easyshare 600/6000 and 700/7000-series digital cameras.
All connection options allow direct 4 x 6-inch thermal picture printing (full size and multiple images per sheet) with or without a computer.
Providing both convenience and exceptional picture quality, the sleek, portable Kodak Easyshare printer dock is the simplest way to get real Kodak prints at home at the touch of a button. Kodak Easyshare digital camera owners also benefit from one-touch picture transfer to a connected computer and camera battery recharging — plus reconditioning for improved battery performance — in less than 3.5 hours.
“Response to the Easyshare printer dock over the past year has been nothing short of astonishing, but we’re not about to rest on our laurels,” said Richard Stearns, general manager of home printing systems for Kodak’s Digital & Film Imaging Systems operation. “By opening the platform to other manufacturers’ digital cameras via Pictbridge technology and popular memory card formats, plus compatibility with Easyshare 6000/600 and 7000/700-series cameras, millions of people will have the opportunity to make real Kodak photos in as little as 90 seconds with just one touch.”
The Kodak Easyshare printer dock uses a continuous tone thermal dye transfer system to produce vivid color with instant drying. Exclusive Kodak Color Science technology produces outstanding skin tone reproduction, plus color optimization for ideal photo viewing. In addition, the printing process automatically adds a special XTRALIFE™ laminate coating, which helps ensure that prints are durable, waterproof and will last a lifetime under typical home storage conditions.
Smaller than earlier models, the new Kodak Easyshare printer dock can also be connected to a computer to print pictures stored on a hard drive, and is packaged with a sample photo paper and cartridge kit that enables people to immediately make 10 Kodak pictures. 40-count refill packs (£19.99RRP) include color cartridges and a matching quantity of thermal photo paper, so users don’t have to worry about running out of supplies in the middle of a project.
In January, the Easyshare printer dock 6000 was honored with the 2004 Innovations Design and Engineering Award, which recognizes the consumer electronics industry’s most technologically advanced products. It was also recognized by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association as one of the year’s top two digital imaging products that most appeal to women.
The award-winning Kodak Easyshare consumer digital photography system — consisting of cameras, software, camera docks and printer docks, inkjet and thermal papers, and accessories — makes it simple for anyone to take, organize, share, and print high quality digital pictures. More information on Kodak Easyshare products is 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 $13.3 billion in 2003, the company comprises several businesses: Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Commercial Printing, offering on-demand color printing and networking publishing systems; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Display & Components, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials, and delivers optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Digital & Film Imaging Systems, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services.
(Kodak, EasyShare and XtraLife are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.)
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