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Reported By: Colleen Schaan
My printer is moving… from my office to my craft room that is! As a teacher, my printer is an indispensable tool that I use daily. I never considered that it was also an indispensable crafting tool…until now. I just got a new Kodak Easy Share 5300 All-In-One printer and I am seeing printing in a whole new light.To be honest with you, I was a bit skeptical about reviewing this printer. After all, I had plunked down LOTS of money on a very large and very good laser printer. I had experience with ink jet printers in the past and was just never satisfied by their spotty performance. But I figured it was maybe time to give the advancing technology of ink jet printers another shot.
Here’s what the Kodak Easy Share 5300 is all about…just the facts!
• ink jet printer, copier, and scanner
• includes a 3-inch, high-resolution color screen to easily see and crop photos for printing.
• prints directly from most memory cards
• uses a convenient 2 cartridge, 6 ink system
• web site tips, tutorials and customer support
• print head is actually a permanent part of the printer, not the ink cartridge (a good thing)
• pigment based inks instead of dye inks (longer lasting)
• inks dry instantly (no smudging or smearing)
• approx. 1’6” long, 1’3” wide, and 9” tall
• retails for $199.99
While I don’t love everything about this new printer, there are many things that I am really thrilled with. I spent the last three weeks playing, printing, scanning, working, and creating…with this printer right there by my side. I don’t often have much use for a copier, but it sure has been nice to be able to make duplicates of important tax information or extra copies of travel schedules. It was quick and easy to make copies…if you can push a button, you can copy.
Now scanning is something that I am a bit ambivalent about. I like the ease of scanning (and this scanner is no different…just lay the item down and hit a button), but I just don’t like the “lighting” for scanned pictures. I found that scanning documents and text turned out beautifully with the Kodak All-In-One, but scanning my cards or scrapbook pages left me feeling a bit blah. Many times scanners “overexpose” photos and cards and the Kodak All-In-One was the same. But I guess that’s what a good photo editing program is for… right?
For me, the printer portion of this tool sealed the deal! Remember, it had to stand up to the quality of my trusty (albeit expensive) laser printer. And what do I think? I think I have a laser printer to sell! I put the printer through its paces…printing off tons of handouts and lesson plans and assignments. While I am thrilled with the speed of the printing, and the crisp black of the text prints I get, I am not quite as excited about the quality of colored text prints. I’m not talking photos (that’s later)… I mean regular PDF or text files with color in them. The prints are okay…probably even good, but they are not the bright and sharp color I am used to. I did notice a better quality of color when I used the suggested Kodak Ultimate Paper, but with the amount of printing I do, I am a “buy it in bulk” kind of gal and the cost for that much premium paper is a bit high. For most of my printing, the quality is perfectly fine; I know I can step it up a bit with the Kodak Ultimate paper for special projects such as resumes or invites.
8.5x11 prints...just look at the vivid color and sharp detail!What really hooked me was the photo printing capabilities. As a crafter, I take TONS of digital photos. I never really printed many though due to the quality of the prints and the cost of the inks. The Kodak All-In-One has changed all that for me. I always wanted to decorate my home with prints of my photographs and now I can. I am AMAZED at the quality of the prints I made. I used the Kodak Premium Photo paper and did a little test. I printed out the same print on my laser printer and again on the Kodak printer…and I am a Kodak lover! I am just thrilled that I can print professional looking photos quickly and easily…and for a fraction of the cost I was paying before. The crafter in me can think of hundreds of projects I want to explore using my new scanner/copier/printer. Just take a peek at some of the cool things I’ve done with my photos!
A clipboard recording our time in Washington. I hope to have each state represented!
Some canvas that I altered and added photos to...opted for the black and white...wonderful tones!
Some canvas that I altered and added photos to...opted for the black and white...wonderful tones!I love my new printer… but I am here to give you my honest experiences…so here is a list of the good, the bad, and the in-between.
Cool
• Looks good. Streamlined and modern.
• I can plug in my memory stick and print right from there. No computer necessary!
• The layout and operation of the control buttons makes for easy use.
• Store both 8.5 x 11 and 4 x 6 paper at the same time. (Two trays)
• Smooth movement and operation of key elements
• Paper tray image for correct paper placement.
• Calibration procedure uses the scanner for quick and error free calibration.
• Green indicator light on power cord eliminates crawling under the desk to check power supply.
• Quiet and quick
• Ink cartridges are less expensive and easy to change.
Not So Cool
• The included software didn’t work with OSX 10.4 (But it was easily available to download free)
• The calibration procedure uses 4 x 6 paper instead of 8.5 x 11 (Photo paper instead of regular paper. More expensive paper, but less ink – so this cancels itself out I guess.)
• To get the very best quality of printing (both photos and text) Premium Kodak paper is suggested.
As you can see…I am more than happy with my new printer and can live with the few “not so cool” things. Now I just have to clear out a space in my studio… for my favorite new “indispensable” crafting tool.
Stay tuned for two more reviews and helpful tips from our reporters... and good luck with the giveaway! Be sure to tell your friends!
The Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer is availible for purchase wherever printers are sold. Or at the Kodak website HERE.
237 Comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 1 – 200 of 237 Newer› Newest»I just saw a product that's available now to make your printed quotes or whatever into rub-ons. This printer would make it so easy. With the copier and scanner options, the possibilites would be endless. Please enter me.
Jayne
stampanon@gmail.com
Please enter me....it sounds very interesting.....having the ability to print only 4 x 6 instead of the size of a sheet of paper would be awesome....
Robin
tqmnurse@charter.net
http://tqmnurse.blogspot.com
Oooh! I would LOVE to win this baby! My daughter's wedding is coming up in the Spring, and I told her I didn't need a "parent's album" because I could create my own. This would be ideal for that -- she gets all the photographer's hi-res photos on a DVD.
I would use this printer in my classroom. I have a really inexpensive all in one right now, but it prints horrible pics. I use pictures all of the time in my classroom and this would save me a ton of time!!!
Sadly, my printer bit the dust almost a year ago. And shamefully, I have not replaced the old thing! For ONE YEAR I have gone without a printer!!! Oh! to be able to print out my own pictures! There is so much that I would love to do with this printer! I would alter my pictures the way I want them, print them out and carry them straight to my craft room to play some more! PLEASE enter me! I have been eyballing this printer for quite a while but have been afraid to take the leap!
THANKS!
Vanessa
scrappymom19@yahoo.com
Wow!!! What a great prize!!! One way I would use it is to print off the pictures of the cards I make and start an album to take to my card workshops and classes.
What a great giveaway... I bake and cook a lot and scrapbook and I would love to be able to easily scan recipes from magazines and be able to make my own cookbooks with pictures of my own recipes and food. This would be a great gadget to have in the kitchen/office area for such a thing.
Enter me! I'd love a way to print a sheet of color business cards without having to worry about them smudging or running if they got wet. Color copying is SOOO expensive and I really don't need 200 cards at once, so this might be the answer. Plus I'd love to consolidate my scanner and printer!
I am my son's class room mom. Every year, I make magnets with all the kids pictures on it at the beginning of the year. It helps everyone, especially me ;), learn all the kid's names. I make the magnets for all the kids. They seem to love it too! Thanks for the opportunity.
I have almost 12 week old twins. My husband, Connor, Chloe and I just returned home from a six day trip visiting each of our families, including a great-grandma on each side of our family. Of course, we took tons of pictures. This printer would have been fantastic to have during the visit to use with my Kodak C613 camera. Imagine being able to print out pictures during the visit, placing them into an album and handing the wonderful memory of the visit to those we had visited.......but, instead, I need to download pictures on my computer, upload the images to a photo printing website, order, edit and wait for the prints (either by mail or to pick up)....you see where this is going, don't you?
Jennie
I need a new printer badly!! Mine is old and won't do photos. Kodak is a name I trust and would love to have this one. Thanks so much for the review and the chance to win one.
Cheryl Sims
I would love to try the Kodak printer. The one I have is dying of old age. Less expensive ink is a plus.
I have had two Easy Share camera's and loved them both. My current printer doesn't do well on sizes larger than 4 x 6 the ability to be able to do both really sounds fabulous!. (How does it print on other surfaces....like canvas paper, transparancy etc. ? )
wow. this is quite funny as i was just beginning some research on printers as i am in dire need of one. i actually own a kodak easy share camera and i would love the chance to win one...
please enter me...
thanks
Susan
chicky0075@hotmail.com
This seems like it would definately be an asset to our household. We do lots of printing and it would be so nice to be able to print off some of those digital pictures that I have taken with my Kodak DX7630.
We have a Lexmark Printer at home and that has just about had it. Makes strange sounds.
Seeing this is a Kodak printer I would say that it would definately be a real asset to anyone who receives it.
Please enter me in the draw for this awesome printer.
Tks
Ohhhh pick me Pick me !! How cool would this be, Imagine all the things you could do!!! Judy
rozeview@sympatico.ca
Wow, that sounds like a pretty cool piece of equipment, I'm glad that it is compatible with Macs... my printer still matches my former ibook (back from 2000, when the ibooks came in different colors!) That's how badly I need a new printer to go with my new Mac laptop!
--Laura N.
I think the ease of printing interest me. I put off printing my digital pictures as long as I can since it is such a hassle. I have to spread them out till they dry. I am anxious to try this.
gwenbrown@earthlink.net
Wowza - what an amazing giveaway! I'd love a printer like that for my craft room for all the times I have kids crafting with me - they love to include pictures of themselves in projects, and I love it, too!
WOW! This was be so nice to carry to cropping and retreat events. I would love to win this! Please enter me in this contest
great review! i love the list of pros and cons. i've been playing with my camera more and more lately, resulting in more frequent runs up to walgreens/cvs to print out my photos. i have a photo printer currently but, i'm never happy with the quality of the pics it prints out. now i'm starting to think of asking santa for one!
dawn
dawnstamps93@aol.com
Wow! What a cool printer. I've been wanting to print out full size photos and make calendars for Christmas gifts. This printer would give me the quality needed to print out photos! With the scanner you could also create collages from your photos and you could send kids home with a photo from parties you throw. Instant gratification! (fingers crossed, please oh please let me win!!!)
Wow!! A brand new printer?? I don't even OWN one!! Any time I need to print something, I have to email it to my husband and get him to print it!! And to be able to print pics?? Unreal!! I scrapped 3 calendars for Christmas gifts last year but didn't have time to make one for myself....sigh. But if I had an awesome printer, I could do that and so much more without having to run out to Walmart to print pics all the time!! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
I actually am i n the market to buy a printer. This looks like a fantastic one at a great price. Please enter me in the draw.
Suzy
*squee*
Does this look like one sexy printer OR WHAT. First of all - it would become the primary printer and I would give my HP to my brother and his kiddies because they are in desperate need of one!
IF I had this printer this is what I would do with it. Since I am new to the world of scrapping I can see so many uses - printing photos, scanning boxes of old pictures (I am like the family historian!), printing in various shapes and sizes for my layout journalling. I also like to scan in magazine articles to store for myself to read later.
THanks so much for this opportunity! Nan
What a great printer! Please enter me into the drawing. For a fun project, I like to print digital prints on watercolor paper to make into cards. I also facilitate a scrapbook club at my daughter's school for 3rd through 8th graders and this would be a fabulous addition to our "tool set"
To be able to print 4x6 photos and not smear would be out of this world!
Debby
I love Kodak products. We have two of the easyshare cameras, love them both, the printer would be awesome!
Julie
The quality of pictures seems to be much better than from the printer that I have now. With my present printer, I wouldn't dare print out photos...they don't look good at all! I would love to win this one!!
I haven't had much luck with colour printers, but this one looks promising.
If I had one, I could see myself getting back into scrapbooking, or at the very least, making mini books for everyone in my family
come on lets be honest who wouldnt want to win this lol
I have all HP things and lately have not been that happy. I would be willing to give this a shot ;)
Wow, this is great! Would love to win this. I am in need of a new printer and right now I have a HP. Would love to try another brand out.
cdgilbert106@hotmail.com
http://www.designsbydeb.blogspot.com/
My art work relies heavily on image transfers so I am always on the lookout for hardware to make the process more effective and more efficient.
In addition to using a printer almost daily for my own art, I also teach two-day workshops devoted to creating original textiles that can be used for image transfers - a good printer is a necessary tool for me to have at the workshops.
I love to spread the word to my readers about great tools and equipment, so please enter me in your giveaway!
I take pictures of my babysitting kids. Then, I shrink them, print them, laminate them. Then we put them inside of a clear liquid soap dispenser and give to their parents. They get to see the nice picture whenever they wash their hands.
My new craft room has just the right spot ready to welcome such a fabulous new addition to my family. My favorite option it making my own background paper for scrapbooking and cards. I enlarge/reduce/copy existing photos or items to create a personal unique touch to my crafts.
OH this is awesome. Love the printer! Have the perfect place for it and am tired of not being able to print my own pictures!!
What a great looking all in one printer, please enter me to win it lol! My current canon printer just died on me and I miss printing pictures, especially during the holidays. Thanks for the review, its so hard to know which product to chose from all of thos available, you guys make it easy. thanks!
Oh man! I'd love to win this! I travel to Honduras every February to lead a Bible school for about 200 Honduran children. Last year, we took their pictures and hung up full sheet pix of the kids on the bar covered openings in the cinder block school. No glass windows to be found here. Anyhow, I'd love to be able to print out 4 x 6 pix for each of the children there because, believe it or not, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE! Can you imagine that? When we took tiny pix of them last year, they could not pick themselves out. Sooooooooo, that's my story. Thanks for the opportunity. Blessings, Leslie
Please enter me in this fabulous contest.
Here is a great idea of what you can do with the printer. Print 3 identical pictures onto a transparency, then put a different colored piece of cardstock behind each picture, you can use this either on a layout, a canvas or in frames, and you will have an Andy Warhol type of look.
I no longer have a printer so this would be awesome. I run a daycare from my home, and take alot of pictures of the kiddies, but it's inconvenient to go out to get them deceloped.
Hope my tip was useful
Thanks Trace
scrapper_t@mts.net
Thanks for your honest appraisal of the printer. I also think being able to create your own rub-ons would be great- no more piles of x's and z's left over!
Have just become a rubber stamper and paper enthusiast this year and am loving it and this sure would be a wonderful addition to my arsenal of tools and tricks! Pleae pick me to win!
Mary Puskar
I'm not reading any of the other comments, so I apologize if this is a duplicate idea. But I would use this printer mostly in conjunction with my quilting. First to print out patterns and instructions from Elec Quilt, and also to print ON the fabrics with my original designs. That would be fabulous.
I would love to win this...having a cheap Lexmark printer that doesn't print well...I would LOVE to beable to print and scan pictures with text on them to add to my scrapbook layouts.
Thanks!
JeanneLee
homeschmomof4@yahoo.com
Wow this Kodak 5300 has everything that a true stamper would need. Plus it's all in one and wouldn't take up to much space. The pictures look so crisp. Count me in on this sweet giveaway. I know my chances would be like buying a lottery ticket, but if you don't try you sure don't have a chance.
Cathy
cmeyers@hughes.net
This would help me so much with not just papercrafting, but with homeschooling and with my home-based biz!! WOW! Thanks for such a generous opportunity!
OMG Who would love to own one of these. I would give it to my husband for X-mas and could finally take off two years of photo's off my computer! Thanks for the chance!!
wow, the possibilities witht this one are just endless!
WOW! Like everyone else, I'd LOVE one of these! The first thing I would do is to start printing my own photos instead of uploading them to photo sites! Instant gratification! After that...I'd have to play with it a little while to see what other fun things I could do!
please enter me as well... I can see this will be a want on my christmas list since I only have a normal printer and the idea of being able to print my pictures at home is so appealing....
Aimee
Catspride3@yahoo.com
This looks like a fabulous printer! I have an old HP that I don't even have color ink in anymore. Printing in BW is a drag! I would like to make photo coasters for gifts and this would make it an easy project! THanks for the chance!
I've been dying to make photo cubes for my desk at work. This would be perfect! I've never had a copier at home, either; I know that would get a TON of use, too!!!
Great giveaway! Thanks!
Amy
goneinkognito@gmail.com
Please enter me! I'd love to win this printer! Printing photos at home for various projects is what I need to do. Thanks!
I would love to test out this scanner/printer. It is great that it has both options...and I love that it can print larger sizes instead of just the standard. I would use it for printing for scrapbooking, as well as in my home school classroom! Thanks for the chance to win it!
I would love to be entered. I do a ton of printing for my hobby work. The print quality looks amazing. And I love the idea of pigment ink.....that idea just rocks. As a stamper, I know that the right ink is really the key.
Ann Clack
acclack at msn dot com
I'd love to enter to win this prize! I'm using my old, out-dated equipment and I really need to get with the program and move into the year! Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I would love to be the lucky person to win this! What a great printer. I would use it with the classes I teach. Having the ability to print just 4x6 would really be a great asset to an album class.
There are so many possibilities with this printer. I can 'picture' it now. :)
Thanks so much for such an honest review. I am in the market for a photo printer - I have a canon right now - but I hadn't thought of getting a whole new printer. I'm still using my HP officejet all in one I got 7 years ago!
Wow, sounds like this is a great printer. Enter me...... Please!
Michaela
harper@carsoncomm.com
Scanning my craft projects, shrinking them all down to fit on one 8.5x11" page, then printing them all out on one page as a handout for classes. THAT is what I would use this awesome machine for! Please enter me in your drawing!!
~Lana B.~
I have always been happy with Kodak products. It seems they get ignored somewhat in the techy reviews. I'm glad to see them getting some good press here!
Wow! How cool is that?!My own printer just does not print photo quality prints so I am almost always running to the store to get them developed. I would love the ability to print at home simply because it's convenient. I'd love to be able to print different size pics (to have a negative strip on my page), or to even digi write on my pics and then print them. There is so much going on in the digi scrapping world that it'd be nice to take advantage of that!
I would love to create postcards with my own photography with this! I could print directly on the 4x6 and have them in the mail in no time. I love that idea!
jinglesells@gmail.com
I would love to win this printer. I have a digital camera, but not a good printer, so I always have to send my pictures in to be developed. I'd love to have a good printer at my fingertips to work on those scrapbook projects whenever I wanted. And the ability to print a 4x6 would be awesome!
Definitely! Wouldn't that be grand to print your own regular size photos? My first daughter is getting married! I need this!
I have the z650 easy share camera and love it. I have tended to stay away from photo printers I never seemed happy with the quality, however this printer looks very promising :)
I would love to win this printer! I have 1.5 years behind on my scrapbooking, and have only done the title pages to my childrens' scrapbooks. This would be a fantastic way to get me jump started again. I would also enjoy printing out high quality digital elements to use in my paper scrapbooks.
Oh I would love to have this printer. I homeschool...so I'm always using my copier/printer. My 16y son has recently gotten into photography..and his photos are awesome...but with the printer we currently have..it doesn't do his photos justice. It prints tiny lines through his pics. Very frustrating..he's trying to sell his prints..and it just costs so much to have them printed elsewhere. Please, please pick me...lol. Thanks so much for the chance to win.
kim3timemom@yahoo.com
OMG!!! What a cool printer!!! And it would make the PERFECT Christmas present for MYSELF!!!! :O)
Wow! What an awesome giveaway! I've just started experimenting with printing my own pics and while mine does an ok job it looks like this one is amazing! And I have a lot of pics from my childhood that I would love to be able to scan and print. Thanks for offering such a wonderful prize!
Oh, having this printer would just make my day! I'm always needing copies, and hate to always have to go out to Kinko's. I teach the ocassional crafting class, and it would be great to scan in my projects step-by-step, print them out, and distribute them to my students. And, I would love to try to new DIY rub-ons from home. This baby would make that project attempt so much easier!
what a great prize!
i couldn't live without a printer. i use mine for everything in the home: printing out recipes, confirmation on paid bills (yuck!), scrapbooking, printing on iron on transfer sheets for gifts, etc.
if it can be printed, i do it :)
pick me!! pick me!!
Wowza, what a giveaway!!
is would be fabulous! We are down to a simple black ink printer now, the color one served it's time :-( I find it difficult sometimes to scrapbook without a color printer, when I want that just right picture that I don't have printed out yet. I would love to have it right by my side. Also, I saw how to make rub-ons with a transparency sheet, this would be PERFECT for that too! I love my Kodak camera, so I can only imagine I would love this too! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to win this!! How awesome!
i had a kodak easy share small printer that came with my camera and i loved the fact that it heat sealed the pictures..not sure if this one does but i was well pleased with my kodak i had.
I do some serious printing!!
Thanks for letting me have a chance to win!! woo hoo!!
I've been looking for a good printer to use for polymer clay inkjet transfers -- I'd love a chance to give this one a try!
I'd love this. I can imagine lots of great ideas, but am really wanting to get into digital scrapbooking!
Very cool!
I'd love to use this to print photos with borders to mount on cubes and use as paperweights for my desk!!
Shelby M.
I would love to be able to print my photos at home. Currently it just isn't cost effective for me to do so. This sounds like a very easy and economical printer to have.
Sounds like a wonderful addition to our scrapbook rooms. I would love to be able to print at home for little money but excellent results.I could do so many things with the different functions. LOVE IT!!!
Kathleen #324
kjriley@comcast.net
Wow! My HP printer is on it's last leg (literally, it has stopped printing using the 4x6 compartment which is a huge bummer). I never really considered getting printer with a scanner but I can see how valuable this would be! I could scan items that might not be acid-free and print them out on photo paper for my scrapbook!
I have a Kodak Easy Share DX6490 camera and would LOVE to have a Kodak printer to go besides it.
Thanks for the chance!
Kelly Jo, CT
k.j.oates@cox.net
WOW! I love the idea of being able to crop from my printer. I get a little confused when I am trying to work in various programs, and I love the idea of being able to do it right there on the printer so I can easily and quickly have my photos for my hobbies! Thanks for doing the reviews, it will help me with my arguments when I try and talk my husband into a new printer for Christmas :)
Wow, printing pictures from home would be a dream! I'm such a quality snob and I *love* everything Kodak! Plus, anything to keep me from dragging my 3 kids to the photo store and spending an hour just selecting the photos that I want printed all the while my kids tearing the shop apart (oh, please don't let me re-live that, LOL!)
I'm a big scrapbooker so I can just imagine taking pictures, printing them out and being able to scrap them the very day they were taken! (Or on those late nights when the kids & hubby are in bed, I could sneak into my craft room and scrap away!) And that would mean that grandma and grandpa would actually get to see pictures of their grandchildren because it would be so easy to print them out.
Oh, please pick me!! :o)
I would love to try this printer! Just the fact that it is an all-in-one would free up so much space on my computer desk! I print all of my pictures because I never know what size I might want to do or what material I might want to print on. I make all kinds of crafts with photos- Christmas ornaments, mini scrapbooks, you name it! The pigment ink sounds like something I would really like to try too! Please enter me in the contest!
Well I love Kodak already as my camera and long loved lil picture printer are Kodak. I have the Kodak Easy Share C743 and my picture printer was the Kodak Easy Share Printer Dock Series 3. I say was because well I used my printer almost everday as I love taking pictures of my babies and I love that I was able to just print my pictures right away when I wanted BUT two weeks ago I was printing and my 4 yr.old spilled his chocolate milk and it went into my printer :( Though I tried saving it.. IT IS NO MORE :( Kodak has been the reason I have really got into scrapbooking more because I don't have to wait to send pictures to print and lose my mojo in order to scrap, I can start setting up my pages while I get my pictures. I have done many quick lil gifts for family because of it.(frames,mini albums,cards) I love Kodak and when I get enough pennies together( I'm a SAHM and budget is my middle name) this actually would be the perfect printer for me as it has so many other wonderful features I could use. So I throw my name into the bowl if you please and thank you for the chance to win such a wonderful gift.
This looks like a totally awesome product! I haven't even entered the world of scanning in LOs because our scanner is not that easy to use...I'd rather take a pic of what I've done and use that, and we don't have a photo quality printer either, so I have had to order and wait for all of my pics. I would love the opportunity to have a product like this to add to my scrapbooking repetoire! ;)
I would love to win...I would use the Kodak Easy Share 5300 to transfer all of my family photos to digital format so that I can share them with family members. I would also love to make a collage with them without fear of ruining the original image. Count me in!
I would LOVE to win this! I've only recently started scrapbooking and I'm already tired of running to CVS every time I'm ready to start a new project. It would be fantastic to print the pictures I need at home when I'm feeling inspired!
So very cool. I am currently in the market for a new printer etc. Especially for my digital photos! Thank you for the chance to win one!!
Thanks for the fab in-depth review!!! It was greatly appreciated, let me tell you! I have never gotten a printer that I felt was worthy of printing pics. I always order my prints, so it would be heavenly to run to the printer and print out a few WHILE scrapping! YAY to no more trips to the store for quick, yet quality pics! Please enter me in the drawing. ty! Good luck to all! -Pam
pmooie@hotmail.com
This sounds like a fantastic printer! Wow! What a great opportunity. I would use the printer to print out the millions and millions of photos I have stored in my computer! LOL! It would be much easier than uploading them to a photo-printing website.
I just bought my first digital camera about 6 weeks ago. It's a Kodak EasyShare V1003. I am enjoying the times that I get to play with it and learn all the different features. A printer to print my new digital pictures would be wonderful. Please enter me into the contest.
Wow this is a great giveaway. I have a Kodak Easy Share Camera. Its like 4 years old. I LOVE it. Kodak makes the best products. I have been looking to buy a printer for printing out my photos to scrapbook. I also take Photographs as a hobby. So It would work great.
Could you please enter me:)
Thanks to Kodak for the chance to win this Great prize.
Thanks again:)
Lisa
Wow, the capabilities are endless! I'd love to be entered to win one!
How very cool! I think this would be very awesome to own! How quick it would be to create your own Christmas cards. Or, how about a thank you card for your kids birthday presents to all the relatives. You could print out a photo of them opening up the present given to them and then add your own thank you sentiment.
The printer looks pretty good. I have never owned a printer quite like the one you posted. I like the photograph posted. Please enter me in your drawing. Thanks.
Lisa V.
MrsMath3@yahoo.com
OMG! How awesome! And, just in time, my epson printer is broke and has been out of ink for years.
Oh, please, pretty please pick me!
Oh my that printer make nice pictures!! I have to go to town to get my pictures made for my printer doesn't print very nice. :(
Thanks for the chance to win.
Ive been using the Kodak photo printers for a few years now and I love them.I also have 3 Kodak digital cameras as well. Just love the whole Easy Share line. So I can imagine this new all in one will meet the quality standards that I have come to expect from Kodak !
I would love to have this in my craft
room. With having everything you need all in one tool, it saves from trying to find a place that does all this for you, then a parking place, etc etc :=) All in one is the way to go. I also do my pictures through a mail service and this will make it so much easier to have my pictures right when I need them. Scanning and copying would help me with my crafts I like to donate to our church. Thanks for letting me enter to win this wonderful product.
Please enter me!
I like to use my printer to make iron on pictures that I turn into quilts and memorbila for friends/family.
I also use my printer in making my cards.
thanks!
Sarah
bloomsburgstamper@hotmail.com
Kodak? Now that brings warm smiles of Instamatic memories since I've been left behind in the other century. What a generoues thing for them to offer the readers. I may just find it not so scary to try to use. :D
I would just love to have a printer like this. Currently, I don't have a color printer at ALL!...yeah, I know...shocking! Please, please, please enter me!
Thanks,
Lynn
lynn.mercurio@gmail.com
Oooooh - I am looking for a new printer. I never thought to consider a Kodak but your review has me seriously considering it! I recently got into digital scrapbooking and this printer would be a great tool for me! Please enter me :)
Thanks,
Teresa
Please enter me in the drawing. I've been wanting to try digital scrapbooking, and this printer sounds like it would be ideal for that.
Renae Crosby
Ohhhhhhh, my DH has been looking at printers. Actually, WAS going to get me a new one for our anniversary last week, but didn't know what I'd want.
I'm sure he'd be happy if I won one. LOL!
So, all we have to do is leave a comment? Really? Sounds great to me.
I like the idea of long lasting dyes and the ability to print in smaller sizes. Would love to have a printer that can actually print IN COLOR again. LOL!
Thanks,
Stacy
AKA: aznewmom@yahoo.com
Wow, what an awesome prize! I have a color printer but rarely use it because the ink is so expensive but this one sounds ideal. I would print the tutorials I find online, samples of cards in contact sheet form, class instruction sheets with pictures of the finished product, I could scan my kids photos for scrapbooking rather than taking them to a commercial copier place...the possibilities are endless!
WOW, A chance to win a great 3 in 1 printer, I love that it uses the pigment base dyes and dries quickly..The printer I have now is old and I am in need of a new one....Thanks for the chance..
Brenda
I'd love to have a photo quality printer instead of having to go to my local drugstore everytime I need to print some photos. Thanks for the chance to win!
Colleen,
What a great review! I'd love to have one of these! I need a printer that prints clear photos. I am on several design teams and scrap-4-hire and totally NEED this!!!
:D
I agree -- it's time to move my printer to the craft room! I like the idea of have a multi-function printer than can print 4x6 photos.
Kathy
How cool this would be to have! The possibilities would be endless. My dh & I both have Easy Share cameras, which we love, so I know I would love this. This would be so awesome to win!!
kristin2timemom@yahoo.com
I would use a printer like this to print digital elements for hybrid crafts. Right now I only have a Black and white printer which limits the hybrid fun. A printer and scanner give many crafting oportunities.
I would use it to print off pictures of cards/altered items that I have made and mail them to my mom so she can see them. I'd just e-mail them to her, but her computer won't accept attachments. I'd also print off extras of pictures for scrapbooking in case I want to use the same picture in different scrapbooks.
Rachel
rachel698@yahoo.com
OMG...I've been researching printers, and this sounds like a "gotta have". I'm so pleased you reviewed it!
Wow! Please count me in!! What a cool printer to have. It's an all-in-1 (scan,copier/printer). Can't beat that. And imagine all the room it will save on counter and desktops :) The printing quality looks very nice, too!!
What a fabulous printer. I create a lot of cards and I would like to create an album of pictures of my cards, the recipe and who I sent the card to. This would be a great tool to help me accomplish my goal. Please enter me in this drawing.
Debbie
porter12@msu.edu
I would love to have this printer...I don't have a printer at school that will print out pictures...I will take pictures and come home scan them and take them back to post for the kids. This would make my day! I could take pictures and go into my office and post pictures that moment! I would be truly grateful for this honor! Thank you so much for allowing us to dream big! Thanks for your website that gives us inspiration! kt
ktstamps@gmail.com
Would love this printer for my scrapbook room! All I have now is a printer/scanner and the photo quality isn't good at all. Thanks for being able to enter!
Hmmm.... let's start with pictures. I like to scrap on the fly, so having the ability to print my pictures when I want them would be a dream come true. Right now, by the time I get the pictures back, my creativity has flown the coop.
Then there's the possibility of going digital/hybrid scrappin'. Something that I haven't gotten into yet because I don't have a printer that's capable of doing what I want/need it to.
I don't even have the foggiest idea what else to do with an all in one, but I'm willing to find out and be the test guinea pig
If I had this printer I would use it to print words onto ribbon and twill tape.
Cindy Keery
creativecards@shaw.ca
Hi, please enter me, I use my printer soooo much with my cardmaking, present making now. To incorporate a scanner? Wow!
Thanks for the opportunity.
Peggy pegp@qwest.net
oh, wow! How cool to win one!! I would use it to print out pictures that i would then turn into Buttercream Transfers to be put ontop of cakes/cupcake cakes! That is just one of the many uses I would have for it.
hillmanfam@woh.rr.com
Sounds amazing! Would LOVE to have this in my studio!
leeannafatovic@bellsouth.ent
If I were to win, I would give it to my daughter so she can take and share photos of her new kitten. I guess he is a crazy cat from what I hear. Since I dont have grandkids, I have grand kitties.
Thanks for offering such a wonderful item!
Very cool review Colleen! I would love to be able to print some of my hundreds of pictures just sitting on the PC waiting ... this would be perfect!!
I would love to try the Easy Share 5300, it would be so nice to print pictures, digtal scrapbook pages, and so much more at home!
Thanks,
mardid56@yahoo.com
WOW! what a great giveaway! i would love to win this and be able to print out my own pics at home. my current printer does not do a good job at that, and i am a big 4X6 scrapper!! Please enter me! and thanks so much!!
glangston23@gmail.com
This printer would be fabulous for printing high quality photos, printing text onto photos, and I'm sure MANY other awesome things that I can't even think of!
Three kids and all the grandparents 300 miles away... this would be great!
I have always wanted one of these! I realy need something thats all in one! I dont even use a scanner right now (and I have one) because I dont have room for it! I also love to make pics of my kids for scrap books and I love to make custom sizes! what a great give away!
Oh My Gosh! What a fantastic give away!!! I just would love to actually print out some of those pics that I have saved on my digital camera! How great would this be for scrapbookers!?!
Oh I would LOVE this! I would use this for both working from home which I do A LOT and crafting.
I would be so excited to make cards, altered frames, collages, photo candles, coasters- you name it with this baby!!
I have a lot of old photos that I only have one of (those old negatives have disappeared!) and don't use the pics because I don't want to lose them. The scanner function would allow me to scan those pics and make some amazing projects with them. An album dedicated to my grandparents who have both passed would be amazing!!
Congrats to the lucky winner!!
I have never had good luck with printing my pictures at home. I would love to try this and stop giving Wal*&^* my money!!
Kelly Kreklau
kreklau@cognisurf.com
i am cursed when it comes to sending my pics somewhere to have them printed (they always get "lost" or something of the likes) so i NEED this!! :)
thanks for the amazing chance!
Please enter me. This one sounds like it will meet all my needs and I am in the market for a new one since my old one died.
ALL-IN-ONE PRINTERS ARE GREAT-SO VERSATILE! I DO OWN ANOTHER BRAND RIGHT NOW BUT IT'S GETTING A LITTLE WORSE FOR THE WEAR. I'VE SCANNED SHIRTS & MADE MY OWN PRINT PAPER-SCANNED DIFFERENT OBJECTS & MADE MY OWN EMBELLISHMENTS-THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS! I WOULD LOVE TO BE ENTERED TO WIN THIS ONE!THANKS!
NANCY
piggybat@earthlink.net
I do a lot of computer work (brochures, posters, etc) for our small town public library and I do some of it at home' I also do genealogy and this would make it so much simplier to print my data.
NancyS (momsnack)
I would love to have the Kodak Easy Share 5300 in my craft room to print my pictures when I need them or to scan in my cards.
Please enter me in the contest.
Cheryl.C
ccathers@shaw.ca
Please enter me!
I'd love to have this to have fun coming up with my own patterned paper to print out for scarpping! Then there's all the photos I need to print- believe me, I have YEARS of photos to print!
Thanks!
Karen
otago @ accesscable. net
WOW!!!! I would love to get this printer. Please enter me!
Debi
cdjohnson8304@comcast.net
WOW! What a great prize. Our printer just stopped working, so this would be great!
Wow. What a great printer! I just made an accordian scrapbook on Strides for Breast Cancer Walk for our team and it would have been so much easier if I had this printer. I already have requests from the wonderful ladies who run this walk in our area for me to make them some scrapbooks for other teams and other volunteers. I would love to help them out with this and a printer like this would be great.
Linda
lmmurph60@gmail.com
Love that it has a screed to view and edit; wouldn't I just love this printer!
Where to start....I am a scrapbooking addict from way back so this printer would only add to my addiction...making it sooo easy to print pictures that fit my creative mood at that moment...not waiting to go to the one hour photo, thus getting side tracked and taking a chance on loosing that creative flow... And the editing screen is a HUGE plus! Here's hoping that I get to be the lucky number! :)
I would love this printer! I don't have a printer that would be good for printing pictures yet, but sure could use one! Please enter me in the contest, too!
Having lived through just about every major printer manufacturer on the market, I know that there isn't a single one out there that truly is a one-size-fits-all... but the Kodak Easy Share 5300 certainly sounds like one of the first to approach it!
printing onto clear stickers is my new thing--- I want to do this all the time. This would be perfect -- with containers it could be very fun
Sarahjane
great review!
I use printer mainly to print enlargements or other weird sizes. Printer is so useful in crafting - from printing out templates to printing the digital layout. Labels, stickers, invitations, tags, photo ornaments - makes the life so much easier!
maya.orendahan@gmail.com
Wow, I would love to try it out! With 2 little girls, I love taking photos and usually can't wait to get them developed, but it is not that easy to get out whenever, this way I can just do it at home and also make some photo tiles. I love that look.
Monika
moni6m@hotmail.com
Sounds like a "must-have" tool! Please enter me in the drawing!
I make cards and scrapbook alot and this would be great help in making my layouts more professional looking. I would have the ease of making different size pictures for cards and layouts. Plus even altered stuff also. even ATC's also. This would be so neat to have, then I would not have to go to the drugstore as often to get my film develeoped., and buy those cameras(instant).
This would be a dream come true!!! My laser is a dog!! I like to print lots of personal tags and toppers for my kids class and it takes forever to print and sometimes I have to fed the paper one at a time!!!! Pick me Pick me!!!
OMG!!! I woud LOVE this! I would use it to print off photos that I just took so I could scrapbook them right away. I'd also print out the scrapbook paper too! When I was done, I'd scan in my work to post on my blog!! Thanks!
Cheryl KVD
Hmmm... well, an easy printer would be sweet, especially one that works with a one-touch button!
~Kendra
Love, love, love having the two paper trays! This would be a good big brother for my my Easy Share Printer Dock 4000! Please enter me in the drawing.
Billie
ksanders6@cox.net
I would love to have an easy share printer. My camera is a Kodak Easy Share, and I love it. Wanted something simple and easy to use. Sadly, I don't have a printer. So, would love to win one.
I would love to have an easy share printer. My camera is a Kodak Easy Share, and I love it. Wanted something simple and easy to use. Sadly, I don't have a printer. So, would love to win one.
Please enter me...I have been a long-time HP user but the Kodak sounds so much better. I just started blogging and want a scanner for scanning my artwork and this would be so sweet!
Donna
www.strawberrystampers.com
donna@strawberrystampers.com
Wow! The possibilities are endless of the scrapbook pages I could print for mini books as Christmas gifts! Thanks for the offer and enter me in the contest!
Sounds like an awesome printer. I have the little photo Kodak printer but can only print 4 X 6. Would love to be able to print big ones. will have to go check out this printer!
I'm a photography student At the Illinois Institute of art. A tool like this would help in all aspects of my education from assignments to portfolio.
Oh how I would love to win a Kodak printer. I have been checking these out for the last month since I received an e-mail from Kodak telling me of the new printer. I have a Kodak easy share camera and need a good printer to print out my photos. I have a new little grandson and would love to be able to print his photos for making him a scrapbook
Thanks for the give away.
Mary Campbell
jjjcamp@hotmail.com
This printer would be great to make your own picture calander for gifts for the holiday.
Wow, that is a great printer, the pictures are beautiful. I would luv to win this "pick me, pick me" this would save me time at the walgreens and i could do my layouts immediately after taking the pictures. Plus I would share more pics with family and friends.
Ah, I would LOVE this printer!
Ah, I would LOVE this printer!
Choosing the right kind of paper for photo printing is the key to getting great looking prints. Using professional photo paper will give you the best results as they are especially designed for this purpose.
so also look for a excellent photo paper.
I am a lia sophia advisor and at my show tonight we had a FASHION SHOW - I took pictures of everyone modeling the jewelry. If I had this printer, I could print out a pic and send it to each attendee at my show as a thanks and a memory of our fun time together.
All I can say is...WOW!! This would be awesome! :0)
Here are a few things that would convince me to purchase The Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer:
1. Prints directly from most memory cards
2. Web site tips, tutorials and customer support
3. Inks dry instantly (no smudging or smearing)
4. Store both 8.5 x 11 and 4 x 6 paper at the same time. (Two trays)
Hope I win one and get a chance to discover more reasons to love The Kodak Easyshare 5300 All-in-One-Printer!
Here are a few things that would convince me to purchase The Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-in-One Printer:
1. Prints directly from most memory cards
2. Web site tips, tutorials and customer support
3. Inks dry instantly (no smudging or smearing)
4. Store both 8.5 x 11 and 4 x 6 paper at the same time. (Two trays)
Hope I win one and get a chance to discover more reasons to love The Kodak Easyshare 5300 All-in-One-Printer!
Stefani
oooh this looks like a tasty little number!
Please enter me, my printer is on it's last legs and can't do half the things this one can do. I'd be in heaven if I could do all these things with one machine!!
Please enter me into the drawing.
Lisa
bllisa@epix.net
Ooops that would be
Lisa
billisa@epix.net
I love the convience of an all in one, I love being able to make a copy at home and being able to scan old photos and play with them in photo editing software and print out enlargements of them. I would love to win one of these easy share printers, I have been eyeing them up at Best Buy for several months now.
I love the convience of an all in one, I love being able to make a copy at home and being able to scan old photos and play with them in photo editing software and print out enlargements of them. I would love to win one of these easy share printers, I have been eyeing them up at Best Buy for several months now.
I love all in ones!!!! You have every convenience without taking up tons of space on the desk. My only concern is the cost of the ink? My current one bleeds me dry, so a new printer that is efficient with the ink would be divine.
It would be lovely to win and not be paying top buck ( becasue I take so many picutres) at the local store to print! Love the scrap pages--would love to lift them! Pleae pick me!! :-)
How cool is this??? I would love the convenience of having a GOOD printer!!! :)
This printer sounds like me dream printer. I use my printer every day...that was until recently. I would love the ease of printing my own photos from home for crafting use, scanning images like hands and feet to send to family members and making copies of recipes to share with friends. In addition, a printer would be useful for my teaching. As an online teacher, I often need to print student weekly reports--this used to be an easy task before my printer stopped printing. Oh PLEASE pick me. I will make you proud!
Love the idea of pigment ink instead of dye for printing and the fact that it is non smudging is better . I will be making invites for my Parents 50th wedding anniversary and this printer would be ideal for printing the pics for the invites , especially since I have to make about 500 of them , which makes the 4x6 option a big plus .
Thanks for a chance to win this awesome all in one printer .
If I had a really good printer - I would publish a book - you know - one of those table top books. I have so many ideas for them - our trip to Alaska, the birth of our children, our rose garden, my travels for work - lots and lots of pics of people - not ones I know - but very interesting faces - you could see by the faces they had many stories to tell.
I would love to win a new printer. Although I have a newer HP, my kids have an older printer and I would love to have a new printer that works great.
Wahoo that sounds like a great craftingmachne!! I would like to have one...
Oh boy! I need a new printer period, and think I need to get this one weather I win it or have to buy it! Amazing. I'm always printing info for invitations and what not. I was asked to doo 100 for May, and this would make it not only easier but more professional. I may eve actually begin to scrap!
Amber
anr5@verizon.net
Hi-What a wonderful prize to WIN!!! I know I am behind the times as far as a printer and to have this all in one would be so handy! Thanks so much for the chance to win one! Kay Mespelt-petking@vcn.com
Please enter me in the contest cause I would love to win it. This printer would be awesome since it only prints 4x6 or smaller. Many times I just don't enjoy "wasting" a full sheet of photo paper for 1 print or trying to squeeze a 2nd print onto the paper using a graphics program.
Wow, this printer sounds terrific. Do you know if it prints from slides? If I don't win it, it's certainly worth putting on my Christmas list. Thanks for the excellent review.
Thanks for this review. I've been looking to purchase a new printer and this was helpful! I like the idea of less expensive ink for sure!
Oh, if only I could win it!
Thank you for the chance,
I am starting out digital scrapbooking. I have been wanting a printer that I can printout my 8x8 pages. This seems like a god printer for just that. I love that the ink dries quickly so there would be no smudging!!
danicasello@yahoo.com
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review. Am in need of a new scanner/printer and this definitely sounds like a wonderful piece of equipment to add to my studio! Please enter me. Blessings to you~
One thing I like to do is have a bookmark for each book I read; after I read the last page, I tuck the bookmark back in the book--later on when I pull the book off the shelf it's amazing how many memories come back to me when I pick up that bookmark. ANYWAY...I'd like to take a picture of me holding the book before I begin reading it, then make a bookmark from that picture! Wouldn't that be fun?! It would be like a scrapbook-mark ;)
-Rachel H.
Oooh - enter me please. The one I have now does not print very good photo quality pictures. I could make photo calendars, photo stickers and mini photo books for gifts - all at home!
Dawn
Dbullock28@comcast.net
Wow...This would be so great to have...It looks and sounds great!
This would make all my printing so much easier. Please enter me for the chance to WIN this wonderful Kodak Easy Share 5300. I could get caught up on printing all the hundreds of stored pictures.
Thanks for sharing.
Dee
Sounds like a very nice printer! I'd love to be able to print nice photos. I've converted to digital photos but they are all on the computer. I do miss paging through an album to look at them.
Of course instant photos rule, but I could also use this for doing neat transfers, or printing out photos in all kinds of sizes for making itty bitty childrens' books for my neice and nephews and friends' kids. I love to write silly rhymes to go with the photos, and kids love seeing their moms and/or dads portrayed in funny stories. :)
What a great give away... I think that this would be best used in my craftroom... I could make digi LO and print them smaller for the family books I give away...
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