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You can also take it with you when you go on vacation, take your pics, and print them out. You're not back home with your pictures from the developer, saying "This isn't quite the picture I wanted you to see, but it's close." It's light-weight, convenient, and even my 11-year old can use it. It is absolutely the best.
What looked good on the LCD screen wasn't quite what you wanted. No more having to down load into the computer, or waiting for the originals for 2-3 days. Go back in the morning and retake it.
My husband bought me the Kodak share 6330 camera, and this print dock. You take your pictures, go back to the hotel, print them out. WE LOVE IT.
Sure, you pay a little more for prints, but you can do them at home, whenever you want. The greatest thing about that--Say you're at Niagra Falls.
I am impressed with it so far.Then I hooked it up to my computer (you install a printer driver on your computer, then you can use it with your computer after you hook it up with a USB cable) and printed a picture that I have on my hard drive. The retail price ($199.95) is kind of high - but if you can be patient and wait for another rebate to come out, and/or use a coupon like I did from Staples, then you can get this for quite a bit less. I saw this item for sale in a Staples ad - $199.95, before a $50.00 mail-in rebate. So I decided to try this out - for $119.95 plus tax, why not.The setup was very easy. This is how you figure about 62 cents per picture ($25.00 divided by 40 = $.625).So overall, this appears to be a "keeper" for me. To print just from the camera, you truly do not ever need to turn on any computer.I placed my Kodak CX6200 digital camera (paid $95.00 for this) onto the dock, and in just a few moments I had a printed picture from the camera. It looks like a photo lab-developed picture.
Evidently you can buy refills that have 40 pages of Kodak photo paper and a printer cartridge for about $25.00. I used the Kodak EasyShare software that came with my camera to select and print the picture from my computer's hard drive.It comes with a starter kit of 10 pages of Kodak photo paper (to print out 4X6 photos), and one printer cartridge.
Then put in the color cartridge, then plug it in. Once again, easy to do, and an excellent result.
I also had a $30.00 coupon I received from Staples. The docking station hooks up to your computer via the USB cable of your camera, so if you do not have a digital camera with a USB cable, you will need to get a USB cable to hook it up to your computer (the docking station does NOT come with its own USB cable).
And I believe you will like the quality of the prints. Pulled all the parts out of the box, then assembled it, which means filling up the paper tray and hooking the paper tray to the printer dock.
Other reviews about the quality of the pictture are true.
Bought a new battery ($14.00), charged it and still the camera did not work. At first I thought it was the battery, but after charging it all night the camera still didn't work. After emailing the Kodak center I was told that the camera needed to be returned. Kodak cx6330 camera was given to me by my family as a Christmas gift. It stopped working after using it three times.
If you are paying 60-62 cents per print, you are not looking hard enough for a good price. I love having a print in my hands a couple of minutes after taking the picture.
I was printing pictures in the hospital right after the baby was born. The dock is VERY portable as well.just need a nearby outlet.
We have been using this dock CONSTANTLY since our baby was born.and it has worked perfectly every time, producing excellent photos. This is handy if you want to, for example, send pictures of your baby to family/friends, and show your baby in different poses without using up as much paper.And finally.the convenience is well worth the cost.
Definitely worth the extra cost, in my opinion.A first-class printer all the way. I use the EasyShare DX6440 camera with it.A few things about the cost-per-print issue.
I've found deals that knock the price down to 50 cents per print or better.Also.the dock and the included software make it very easy to place 2 or 4 different pictures on one 4x6 piece of paper.
Nothing compares. Just took the kids to Disneyworld, and I already have photo-lab quality pictures in my Disney scrapbook and the kids helped out.
Do not even think of anything else. What a cool thing.
I have 3 digital cameras and usually take pictures and then never really develop or look at them. The camera and the printer are worth the price of admission.
I did, and nothing compares. This printer is in a class by itself.
I buy Sony everything, but not this baby.
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