Kodak Joins All-In-One Office Printer Chorus

Trembling with anticipation, I read Kodak's breathless missive on its EasyShare 5000 series of office printing systems (especially the extravagant All-In-One 5500), Kodak's first such beasts in half a decade.

After today, the inkjet market will never be the same,” said Antonio M. Perez, chairman and chief executive officer, Eastman Kodak Company. “We are changing the rules ..."

The hook is the claimed cheapness of the ink, which comes at a mere $10 a cartridge. That said, challenging HP, Lexmark and Brother, makers of the world's most spirit-crushing technology, can't have come easy to Kodak. There's no reason to think the 5500 won't print, scan, fax and copy like the best of them, however, and it comes with PictBridge and a 2.4" LCD display for quick image manipulation when firing straight from camera or card.

$250 will nab you the top-end model (pictured). Cut the fax and you have the 5300 model ($200), and cut the fax, LCD display and the memory card slot to arrive at the 5100 ($150). Photos of each are after the fold.

Press Release [Kodak]

Kodak 5100

Kodak 5300