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a photo printer that works at home let's
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at photo printers specifically
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I'm looking at a photo printer from
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Kodak I mean is there a more venerable
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name in photos and printing probably not
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but the question is how does this work
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and I'll tell you it's kind of a mixed
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bag so it has a dock and the dock
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actually has a micro USB so my Android
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phone's ready to rock it also includes
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this little doohickey that lets you plug
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it in and it's a micro USB to lightning
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connector so you can also use it with an
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iPhone but let's go ahead and give it a
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shot with our Android phone this is a
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zomi so it's a nice little third-party
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Android phone and there's an app that
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you download from either the Google Play
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store or from the um iPhone app App
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Store and let me just get this thing
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woken up and okay so now we're in the
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photo app and it's super easy I go to
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the gallery I pick the picture that I
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want and then I can either tap and print
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from within the app or I can just push a
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button on the printer so now let's time
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and watch how long this takes
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the first pass is the yellow color as
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you can see it comes out extremely
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yellow however it is important not to
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panic when you get here because the
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done second pass is for magenta and
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you'll see it becomes considerably
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closer to the end product at this point
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cyan and this will suddenly transform it
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into something that actually has the
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correct colors versus the original
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photo but it's not quite done yet
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because it has to do the protective coat
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on top which is all part of what the
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printer does so now it's doing the
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coating and in a couple of seconds it'll
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be completely done and we'll have a
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beautiful print of our
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flowers okay so that was the closeup and
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now we're done and you can see the
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printer actually did a pretty good job
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this is a pretty nice looking print and
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the colors maybe they're not quite as
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Vivid as they are on the actual phone
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but you know what it's not bad and so in
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terms of price and everything the unit
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itself's $139 and that includes an ink
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cartridge in 20 sheets and then these
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additional packages can be bought and it
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includes 40 sheets and an ink cartridge
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cuz of course ink is really the
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expensive piece here and if you get just
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40 then it's going to run you about 49
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cents a print cuz it's $1 199.99 for 40
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but you can get 40 or 80 or 120 and if
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you get 120 it's a 120 sheets of paper
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and three ink cartridges so it's kind of
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interesting but that at $46.99 doeses
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get you down to 39 cents a print so
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that's a pretty good deal now I will say
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that you know the print quality is not
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Lev the same level as commercial prints
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so H we'll have a look at this this is a
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commercially printed photo this is the
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same photo printed here from the F the
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Kodak photo printer doc so I'll show you
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the close up you can see there's a
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little Clarity and accuracy but to be
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fair these prints are immediate
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gratification it's really fun to be able
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to take some photos with your smartphone
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and immediately print some of them out
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or give them to people as um collectible
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or souvenir of their visit with you or
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whatever and it's obviously going to be
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really fun at parties and so the prints
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aren't quite as great as they would be
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if you went to a photo place or even
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Costco or um Target or Walmart or
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something but they're not bad and I have
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to say that once you get the hang of it
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what I've found is if you lighten it up
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a little bit and add just a little bit
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more saturation you get much better
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results so I'm going to give this maybe
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a sort of limited thumbs up it's really
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fun for what it is and at 50 cents a
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print it's not incredibly expensive so
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if you have teenagers and you want to do
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something different for their next party
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or if you're at work or you're in a
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situation where you want to give people
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maybe photos of them wearing specific
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outfits or a hard hat or with their
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guest badge on from the company visit or
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something this can be a really Nifty
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little solution for you so this is the
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Kodak photo printer Doc
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pd450w and the w means it also does WiFi
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and it's $139.99 at amazon.com and I say
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check it out it's pretty interesting so
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Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
