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The Fun but Limited Kodak Printomatic Camera -- REVIEWED
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May 30, 2025
It's a dream as old as cameras themselves; a device that could capture what's going on and print a perfect picture on the spot. Polaroid made it famous and in this digital era, it's Kodak that's created a nifty little digital camera with a built-in photo printer. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ finds out that while there's much fun to be had, there are also some substantial limitations you should know about before you make a purchase decision... Learn more: http://amzn.to/2i1QWtS
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a camera that also produces color prints
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let's have a look Dave Taylor here and
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this time I'm looking at cameras not
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regular DSLRs or anything I'm looking at
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this this is the little compact Kodak
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print o matic I love the name printer
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Matic it's a 10 megapixel camera with
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flash and it's secret weapon is it
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actually prints so let's give it a shot
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right off the bat now here's the thing I
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will say is that it comes with
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incredibly little documentation as in
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none at all and you really you open the
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box and you're kind of left trying to
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figure out where to go from there and
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not only that it doesn't come with any
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paper so you have to buy your print
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paper separately which I found to be a
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little frustrating because you have to
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know in advance my guess is that some
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people are going to buy this and think
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it's all ready to rock and roll and
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they're going to open it up and they
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don't be able to do anything with it
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kind of a drag it also if you put in a
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micro SD card it can save your pictures
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onto the card but it doesn't come with
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an SD card like you know this is the
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kind of thing where Kodak for seriously
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$1.00 you could actually go and get a
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really cheap 8 gig as micro SD card and
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put it in the packaging so I had to buy
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that separately but let's give it a
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whirl you can choose how there's a
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slider on the top for a color or black
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and white and I will warn you the prints
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aren't super huge but I'm gonna take a
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picture of my setup of how I actually
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make videos so here we go
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so the beep says that it's captured the
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image and now if you look there's a slot
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on the side so in a moment or two it
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should start printing now the printing
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technology is really cool they use what
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they called them there's ink printing
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system and it's all self-contained
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there's no separate ink cartridges I
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think you could hear the camera is
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starting to do the print and it's
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interesting it's a stack of sheets that
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aren't light-sensitive so you don't have
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to work in a darkroom to put them in or
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anything and it comes with one that's
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just this dark blue
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sheet and somehow the camera uses that
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to calibrate so every time you put one
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in it actually calibrates for that and
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here's our print coming out and as you
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can see it's actually smaller than a
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credit card it's pretty small but mostly
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what it's got and here's a close-up
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mostly what it's picked up here is it's
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picked up the light that I have which is
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not a surprise so here's another print
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that I did with the camera this is one
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from Maine or a couple of days ago with
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that pumpkin and you can see it's nice
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and bright these pictures aren't gonna
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win any awards but that's not the
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purpose of this camera this is not a
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camera where you're gonna say oh I'm
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gonna do this and then I'll put them up
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in my gallery this is more something I
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see that you could give to teenagers or
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even tweens or kids and let them have
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some fun with it now having said that I
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will also say that it is not exactly
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free so let me first tell you that the
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battery it takes two hours to charge and
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it runs pretty much forever as far as I
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can tell I've only charged it once and
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used it a bunch and there's little
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colored lights on the bottom and again
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there's no instructions on how to
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interpret this you have to go onto Kodak
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to figure that out
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Kodak include some sort of small manual
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please but if you get below 10% it
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starts flashing red and it won't print
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because it doesn't want to actually die
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halfway through a print out so it'll do
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that and at 2% it automatically powers
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down micro SD card is you can see on the
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bottom here there's a micro USB for
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charging and then a couple of I'm
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guessing a tiny hole for doing a reset
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if something goes weird I don't know
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what the third slot is and then the
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fourth one is actually the micro SD card
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and I put in a 16 gig micro SD so
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hopefully that just captured the image
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we just did - and let's see so it could
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do color and black and white you saw the
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switch on the top and so all this left
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to talk about is the paper so this is
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zinc 2 by 3 paper so these printouts are
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2 inches by 3 inches pretty cozy pretty
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small size they run roughly
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50 cents a sheet so it's 999 420 $24.99
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450 and a sheet what I mean by a sheet
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is one of these so this picture cost 50
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cents to print now what's interesting is
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that I actually checked my local Photo
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Store can actually print a 4x6 color
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image for 35 cents so it is more
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expensive for me to get the convenience
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and the fun of being able to print on
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the spot then if I just save things even
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on with this camera on the micro SD card
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and then actually print them a little
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bit later so you're definitely paying
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for instant gratification that might be
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something that's entirely worth it again
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at like a kid's party or something this
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could be really fun
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however warning number two if you touch
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the button you get a print out even if
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you're not ready for it so you see this
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is not a great photo but 50 Cent's boom
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like that so you can imagine with kids
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you probably gonna need to do a little
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bit of teaching before they stow oh
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what's this button click like oh there
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we go we're out of paper that was a fun
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$10 thanks dad probably would be pretty
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frustrating
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so I know lots of limitations lots of
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things that I'm not thrilled about with
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this camera the technology is really
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cool the idea of this being like an old
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Polaroid Land Camera or something where
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you see an image you take the picture
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and it prints it out that's really fun
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but you gotta think at the size that it
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produces these images and the cost per
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image I'm not sure it's a huge
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improvement over the old ones where they
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had I don't know if you remember the old
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pictures that had the chemicals on the
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end of them you know I think that was
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actually cheaper per print I don't know
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anyway before I tell you the price of
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this unit let me also ask if you can
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click on my subscribe button because I
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sure appreciate if you can subscribe to
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my channel cool now the camera this
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kodak print ematic comes in yellow or
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gray this is the gray color yellows a
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little bit more cheery and it runs
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$69.99 at amazon.com and that gets you
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this but that does not get you this so
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you're going to need to also buy
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yourself
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some print paper or you're gonna have a
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camera that's probably designed for the
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one thing you're not doing which is
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actually printing so this is Dave Taylor
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and I will catch you in my next video
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