Article:		Tired of Inkjet Snapshots? The Canon CP-220 to the Rescue
Subject:		40¢?
Date:		2004-12-12 20:36:04
From:		webb_k
Response to: 40¢?
I have a compact dye sub printer from Kodak (Easy Share Printer Dock 6000). Each print costs about 55 cents, but like Derrick, I absolutely love the quality and the ease of use. I own an Epson 2200 photo printer ($700) and generally love the printer for what I need from it, but it's a pain (and a waste of paper) to get a single 4x6 photo. I put my Kodak Easy Share camera (DX 6490 - recommended by Consumer Reports - $400) on the top of Kodak's compact dye sub printer ($150) and press the print button. After the 4 passes (yellow, red, blue, protection) it's finished and the print looks great - better than my Epson. I'm not sure why the consumables (paper and ribbon) cost more than the Canon CP-220's consumables. I get 40 sheets with matching ribbon for about $22.00 at my local Walmart - about $.55 My brother got the HP ink-jet compact printer for his camera. The quality of the Kodak dye-sub prints is head and shoulders above the ink-jets from his portable HP printer.

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• DX 6490 and PD 6000+
  2004-12-17 06:44:27  MSchienle [View]
  
  
  My wife has the same DX 6490 camera and the 6000+ version of the printer. I think the only difference is faster output and an auto-enhance feature when printing directly from the camera. She definitely loves both. She volunteers for city events and gets a lot of requests for prints at the events. She purchased the dock for the convenience of being able to produce a some on the spot. We bought the printer dock about a month ago and there haven't been any events since then, but she's anxious for the next one.
  
  We looked at the Epson at the time and felt that it was a better deal as far as per-print prices are concerned. We went with the Kodak for the convenience of having one less USB attachment on the desktop since the Kodak printer dock is also the charging base for our Kodak camera.
  
  We've had a couple HP inkjets, HP-970 and -990, that we always thought made beautiful photos. They do, but they compare poorly to the Kodak output.