Wow! Kodak has invented what I have been waiting for. A printer I can use to print my photos at home without worrying about the expensive cost of ink or having my pictures fade over time. Since the digital camera revolution I have taken more pictures than ever but have printed way less. My scrapbooking has fallen by the way side and my frames are not filled with up to date pictures. I am so excited to print pictures - easily and cost effectively! Thanks Kodak for helping me to love my pictures again.

Five thousand, two hundred and twenty-four. That’s the number of photos I’ve taken since my beloved son was born in June. Not surprisingly, most of those photos haven’t been printed. Who can afford to pay for pricey ink or the time to upload pictures to photo development sites? It’s one of those things that you’ll say you’ll do next week, or the week after that, or a few weeks down the road, but never seems to get done. That’s why the Kodak EasyShare 5300 might be my dream come true - the thought of being able to print those precious photos with high-quality and lasting ink with just a click of the mouse while my son naps upstairs is truly exciting. Kodak, you’ve answered the prayers of a busy new mom!

The new Kodak EasyShare 5300 Printer is my reason to print more. Kodak has redefined the statement “Less is More.” Print and indulge.

The reason I would like to have a printer that produces quality photo prints and doesn’t cost me an arm and a leg is because I am a mommy of 2 boys (wonderful, sweet and active) and they are growing up sooooo fast. I take a extraordinary amount of pictures (like everyone with a camera and a love of photography does), but I haven’t printed them all out because even though I have a great printer the INK is soooooo expensive. Now if I could have a printer that I didn’t have to spend a fortune on ink to print my tons and tons of pictures I would actually be able to finish the scrapbook I started for my oldest, start one for my youngest and update the ones I have made for the grandparents. Now don’t you think I REALLY REALLY NEED this printer? I am thrilled to see a printer that is more economical and would love a chance to use it, hint, hint.

As a rather new father of a 2 year old son, like many parents one of my most joyous things to do is to take pictures of my son and family. In today’s digital era having a digital camera gives us the opportunity to take numerous pictures of memories that will last a lifetime. When I hear the name Kodak, I think about how many generations of families have used Kodak cameras and products to preserve their memories, from the Kodak Brownie to the Kodak EasyShare 5300. It is only fitting that the Kodak EasyShare 5300 enables us this privilege and freedom by providing us a printer that offers “ink that is half the cost, easy to use and that creates prints that last a lifetime.” In my lifetime, my one true wish is to be able to re-live those memories in my heart and mind, taking pictures of my son taking his first steps, eating his first chocolate bar, watching his first Christmas concert, scoring his first goal, taking a picture of his first of many girlfriends, graduating from highschool and university, taking him out along with me on photography hikes, witnessing him getting married and finally taking pictures together with him of his new born child. So you see, that will take a lifetime of photos to capture these memories and having the Kodak EasyShare 5300 would be the perfect gift so that I may share these lifetime memories with my family and also with the many generations to come.

I want to talk to you for a minute about that soooo sweet printer I’ve been dreaming about forever and never knew existed in an affordable model. I started my home based photography business last year due to having to be home with my 3 disabled children. Dylan, 14, with Bi-polar disorder, Devon,5 and Daniel, 3 both with Autism. The Kodak EasyShare 5300 would make life even better by being able to have both proofs and prints instantly and economically, yet with top notch quality. I would do almost anything to save time in my already to busy schedule. (Not to mention the FAME and GLORY of having one of my images up in Times Square if I was to win wooo hoooo).

Just starting a business can be very stressful on you mentally and financially. Having a printer that would eliminate some of that stress would be a great relief. Did I say how much I want this printer? I will soon be expanding my customer base and even though I have a photo website for ordering, some people want their photos sooner. Did I say how much I need this printer? The Kodak EasyShare 5300 could offer such an impact on my business. It would allow me to have photos available to showcase to my customers. Did I say how much I would love to have this printer? The best thing of all is the ink. I wouldn’t have to purchase as much nor deal with the crooked companies that only send you half a cartridge full of ink that only lasts you about a month. Did I tell you how excited I am about this printer? Oh and to have one of my photos in Time Square is just the icing on the cake. Imagine my work in lights! Did I say that if I print that picture on the Kodak EasyShare 5300 I could keep it forever without losing it’s quality?

As a photography business owner and a husband, the Kodak Easy Share 5300 printer will probably save my marriage. My hair turns a little grayer every time my wife uses our commercial printer to print her 4×6’s of the grandchildren (there are a lot of children and a lot of pictures!!). The cost of ink alone would fund a small country. I have placed a limit on the number of pictures printed and the number of grandchildren. So, if you value the sanctity of marriage and subscribe to family values, your favorable consideration of my entry would be appreciated.

I believe I need the new printer with the more affordable cartridged because I truly go through 6 cartridges a month. I am an avid freelance photographer, for my friends, for enjoyment and for my family. I have documented weddings, and vacations and Christmas cards. I do it because I enjoy it, and never get paid. Also, my mom has recently gotten into geneology. She is not very computer literate so she looks to me when she needs something scanned and printed. Currently I am scanning all old family photos on an Acer flat bed scanner, which takes about 5 minutes per picture because it’s from 1994. I then edit and crop them to get rid of any imperfects from age and then reprint them so the originals can be preserved. Again, all on my own dime. I am in the process of getting married and would love to have a new printer like this to come home to after our honeymoon and print out all of our pictures. Please consider me for this awesome prize.

As a soon-to-be divorcee and mother of four children, this new printer from Kodak would be the best thing that has happened to me in quite a while. Living on a very tight budget does not afford me the luxury of buying prints from a retailer. Also the ink on my printer costs around $40 for both cartridges, which means I feed and clothe the children first of course! Photographs of the kids either stay on my computer or stuck in my SD card, or even worse, in a pile of undeveloped film in a kitchen cabinet. As a mom I love to show off pictures of my kids, but bringing my friends or family to sit in front of my computer screen or squint at the back of my digital camera doesn’t always cut it. I have yet to fill up a photo album with pictures of my family, which I would love to do as a project with my children. This Kodak printer would allow my kids to print the pictures they would like to place in albums or other craft projects that they could share with their friends and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other relatives. What a great way to preserve memories of growing up and knowing that we will be able to share these memories when my children grow up.

I would love to own a new Kodak printer. My old printer is too complicated for my family to use. It has paper jams and the paper feed system does not hold the paper well. The print color is inconstant and unsatisfactory. We travel a lot and have many beautiful pictures that we never get prints of because is too expensive and a big hassle. An easy to use quality printer that is cost effective would make it practical to share our memories. This would make the Mrs very happy, and when she is happy, everyone is happy.

Well the first and main reason I’d love to have this Kodak Printer is because my mom is an avid scrapbooker and is constantly hounding me for photos that I take at holidays, trips and get togethers. With working full-time it makes it a bit difficult to get down the lab every couple days. So I figure if I had this printer, I could hook it up, print it and be done. No more trips to the lab and my mom gets to do what she loves(scrapbooking) and so do I (taking as many photos as possible). Not only do two people continue to do what they love, but saving on Ink and trips to the lab would be amazing and plus who doesnt LOVE Kodak.

I have been taking photographs for over twenty years and the very first film I loaded into a camera was Kodak. Since then, Kodak has been a name that I trust all my memories to and it’s great that we now have this name providing that same high quality and trust in the digital age. I want my photographs to be seen beyond the computer screen and it’s important to me that I know what results I will get when I print at home without costing me an arm and a leg and more importantly knowing that they will not fade when I hang them on the wall. Kodak has now given me the ability to print and hang my photographs with pride and with the knowledge that I am still using the same trusted brand.

If there was a printer that utilized inks which were half the cost of other inks, and this printer produced images that would last a lifetime, I would most definitely print more. Now if such a printer existed, and I had the luxury of owning one, I would not be sitting here looking at a crashed hard drive with over 2000 digital images on it that I can not retrieve or view. Thus, I wish I had owned a printer that used inks that were half the cost of other inks and where assured to last a lifetime.

Oh, my, I would love a printer! I think I must be the cheapest person in the world somedays and use three different commercial printers to save money on pictures (so a ink-saving printer would be for me!) I’m trying very hard to become a good, dare I say great, photographer someday and I am constantly trying to try new things and punch up my colors. A professional printer could sure help in my goals to stay up to date and edgy!

I would love to win the easy share printer 5300 because I have just become a new grandma her name is Amelia and she will be 3 mo. on the 16th and I am sure I will be printing millions of pictures of her, so it will be very good that the ink is 1/2 the price. I have a kodak camera my son gave me because he knows I love pictures and I really like printing pictures to put in my album’s. So I hope this grandma can get real lucky and win.

Once upon a time I had a printer, it seemed like a great idea.
Individual ink cartridges,
they were the way for me.
Excited, I printed a photo;
it came out all wrong.
Didn’t it know that I’d told it -
eight by ten was on?
I printed docs in black and white,
saving colour was my goal, and my plight.
For even in black only
the colours were run down.
Too expensive and too often,
I gave up on colour printing, for now.
Banished now to laser,
greyscale is my song.
Oh, to print a photo
I do so long.

Expressions evolve with our sense of understanding and presenting them. Well, that not the only reason why I should have wall papers of some of the closest moments of my life on the wall of my bedroom or the walls of these streets. Nor is it the best reason to own a printer. There are other reasons like I don’t have one, like I always wish to claim all my gear from my work, like if I could I would print the world on canvas, like I live in the third world reality and like I have much of my gearing up to do and like I actually love the to see my images on the street walls with onlookers passing by…

On November 25, 2002, my granddaughter was born. The birth of a grandchild is a life-altering event — in many ways even more so than the birth of one’s own child. I was fortunate enough to get to the hospital to not only witness her birth, but also to help “bring her to life” by cutting her umbilical cord. Unfortunately, I had to jump on a plane back home to Atlanta much too soon and leave her in Oklahoma City, only to visit her once or twice a year. While I consider myself lucky indeed to have been able to visit, I missed so much of the first few years of her life. In August of this year, my daughter and granddaughter came home to Atlanta and are living with me. I now have many opportunities to capture the precious moments in her life that I previously missed. I don’t print my own images because ink is so expensive. Winning the Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer with “ink that is half the cost, easy to use and that creates prints that last a lifetime” would allow me to take those once-in-a-lifetime moments off my computer and “bring them to life” by printing and framing them.

I’m writing in the tenth hour to plead for the Kodak EasyShare 5300 to come to work for me. I need a new assistant. That is what my printer is to me. I’ve fired 3 in the past 5 years. They failed me horribly and cost me dearly. You need to be efficient, cost effective, presentable to the public and be able to sell, not to mention stand the test of time . You seem to hold all these qualities…can you start tomorrow?

Why would I want a printer that uses half the ink, is easy to use, and creates prints that last a lifetime? Well, the obvious reasons would have to include cheaper inks which in turn create less out-of-pocket expenses. Then there is the fact that the inks are pigment based which have color vibrancy similar to that of dye-based inks. When a photographer deems a photo worthy of printing, we certainly would like the result to be sharp, clear, colorful, and last longer than a year or two. Finally, no one wants to have to be a rocket scientist to operate a printer. With the pace of todays world, ease of use is a necessity for efficiency in our lifestyles. Printing our photos quickly and easily leaves much more time for taking photographs, walking the dog, taking the kids to the park, or just enjoying the company of your loved ones. These are the whys of an interest in owning a printer capable of what is promised by Kodak with the EasyShare 5300.

I would love to have a Kodak printer that is half the cost, easy to use, and that creates prints that last a lifetime because I am getting along in age now. I am retired and went through prostate cancer and a number of other medical problems that left me pinched for money. I have my retirement and have to pinch pennies more now than ever with the cost of things going through the roof. Photography is my remaining passion and I don’t know what I’d do without it. What is left of my world revolves around it and making prints is very limited with the old printer I currently have. I cannot afford to purchase a new one so this would be a really exciting thing…to win this nice printer.

I am a mother of four girls ranging in age from 2 to 16. I homeschool my children and photography is one of our classes. Because, we love nature photography, my 14 year old and I quite often study together. As much as I would like for my pictures to last, she NEEDS for hers to last much longer. The printer that we have now, we can only load one sheet at a time or it will jam and I can’t even imagine having a printer with ink that costs less. It’s not easy homeschooling but, in my area it is neccessary. Affordable prints that last from a printer that we can all operate would really make a difference in my home.

First, I’d like to say how excited I am about this contest because Kodak always has a lot of good, quality products. One of the main reasons I haven’t bought a home printer yet is because buying ink for a printer is so expensive, especially for most inks to just fade away after a few years. Therefore, to be able to print my photographs from home for such a low price would be really time and cost efficient, but still have the quality just like they came from the photo lab would be very valuable to me. So, after reading about the Kodak Easyshare 5300 printer and knowing how beneficial it would be for me, I would absolutely love to win this contest! And to have my favorite photograph up for so many people to see in Times Square would be incredibly exciting! Thank you Kodak and Photography Corner for coming up with such a great contest!

I believe Photography is not just an art: it is but a global language, spoken, understood, and believed by every human mind. Feelings can be incorporated, emotions channeled into a picture. A printer that produces prints that survive a lifetime would not only preserve a photograph itself, but also immortalize the photographer’s feelings with it. It’s ink costing half the conventional price would gift the ordinary, middle-class man like me an opportunity to open his heart out to the planet through pictures, without having to worry about towering expenses. And when all this can be effortlessly done, it would keep me yearning for more and propagate the process as an inspiration to the world around me. My memories do mean a lot to me… and because a single photograph speaks a thousand words, a printer like this would secure a lifetime of precious memories.

I would appreciate a printer like the EasyShare 5300 for two reasons and both relate to my age. I am only 17 years old, just getting into photography but I am already obsessed with it. Being still in high school, it is hard enough to pay for the minor things like gas, eating out with friends, and the astronomical movie prices these days. I am currently using a canon inkjet printer for my pictures but it runs out of ink extremely quickly, the quality is sub-par, and I am definetly afraid of fading over time. Being so young, it would be difficult for me to justify spending money on a new printer, as I could use the money for other things. In addition to the monetary aspect contributing to my desire to win this challenge, I also wish to win this printer because you claim the prints will last a long time. Being young, I hope that I can look back at my physical prints in 10 or 20 years when I am already waist-deep in my profession and be able to see what everything was like now. I know that I will miss my days being a teenager and I hope this printer would be able to serve as the perfect time capsule.

I have always wanted a pigment-based, decent sized printer. We just obtained an Epson 4880 pigment based printer at work and I wish my prints from home could compare. I feel it’s great to be introducing this printer at this price point and having inexpensive inks to boot. Now I could keep spare cartridges around and not be so stingy when I’d like o make prints for friends or family. I could even get around to hanging up photos!

I would love to have a printer that is half of the cost of other photo printers and half the cost for ink compared to my hp. Please help me to get rid of my hp. Right now I having to pay gobs of money to print my prints and it is eating into my money. Kodak has always produced quality gear and this printer is awesome, and I really want one. I would also love to have one of my favorite images on the big screen in times square.

I love my family, taking pictures, scrapbooking and appreciating photography as art. In my living room alone I have 17 framed photographs – mostly of my kids. I am one of the million other busy moms out there who will no doubt be attracted to this printer! Between my job, running our home, and taking my kids to their activities, I don’t have time to upload my photos, or wait in line at the photo lab. The Kodak EasyShare 5300 will allow me the flexibility of printing lab quality prints from home, when I have time. I would way rather spend money on making the memories, than preserving them! Ink that is half the cost and a quality that will ensure our memories are passed on to the next generation is very appealing. Thanks Kodak for thinking of me - and freeing up some spending money on our next family vacation!

Producing a CD is not as personal and creative as a printed album, so being a retired senior citizen (not too technically savvy) and an avid photographer on a limited budget, I need a Kodak Easy Share 5300 because it is easy for me to use and the economic use of the ink will give me archival quality that will allow me to pass on my large family photo collection to my five children.

I would love to receive a new Kodak EasyShare 5300 reasons being, that it will provide easier digital printing and I like the idea of having the internal 2-cartridge 6 ink system which sounds like it will save me a huge amount of money for all of the printing that I need to do. The price is an unbelievable price for a printer and Kodak seems to be starting a new revolution with the pigment- base ink printing. I would be thrilled to own a Kodak EasyShare 5300. I moved from California a year ago, to a very artist friendly State of Arizona to pursue my photography and now have a photo gallery showing and other establishments displaying my photos. I would love to be able to start printing my own photographs. I not able to trust my other brand of a printer that I own right now, so u can only imagine the cost of having everything professionally printed. I am very excited to hear about the Kodak EasyShare 5300 and hope that I have a chance to win this printer.

Mt. Rushmore. It was just a kid’s dream. On a trip out West in the quiet, patriotic 1950’s,a little boy was so impressed by the heroic, 60 ft. high figures of four of America’s early and greatest Presidents, carved out of the stark granite hills of South Dakota, that he made a vow to return—someday. Fifty years later, he did. John Whitmore is a wonderful husband, the best any woman could ask for. Among his many qualities are these: he is honest, like George (“I cannot tell a lie”) Washington. He is a good writer, like Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence. He is open-minded and freedom-loving, like Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. And he stands up for what he believes in, like Teddy Roosevelt and the “Rough Riders.” We would very much love to have a Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer for our volunteer and educational work—a printer that uses ink that is half the cost of others (we have to have two double packs of the expensive cartridge stuff for the newsletter we do as volunteers); easy to use (I’m so un-mechanical I can’t even load cartridges)—this would make our lives simpler and much happier. Long-lasting and non-fading (a lifetime!) would be a great plus to us, so we can remember how we were, share pictures of our new grandchild Dylan (just 2 weeks old!) with family and friends scattered across the country. And even Dylan’s grandchildren will have pictures to remember us—now that’s lasting fame!

Wow… I would Love to have that nice kodak printer sitting at my house. You wonder why, well the obvious I love taking photos, but more importantly I love my family and thats what I take photos of. I love changing them out in the frames constantly because there are so many moments I capture.I always want all whom enter my home to see new changes my kids have made.I come from a big family and they are always wanting photos also.Going to the stores or sending them off take a while and are costly also. How awesome that would be to not have to pay so much and wait and hope for great results to return.

My personal stamp on the future. Photography can portray the artists attitude toward life. If one is pessimistic, their photography will show it. If they are optimistic they will show the world and the beauty around them. I don’t know how long I have left in this world. My photos will give my children, and their children, a look into the kind of world I lived in and my view of it. Through my vision, they will get an idea of who I was. That is why a good quality archival print is important to me. Hopefully, several generations from now someone will see my print and it will make them smile. That is what I wish to leave for the future generations. The cost of printing those images is prohibitive with most photo printers. You have to sacrifice quality to obtain the lower cost. I’m looking for a printer that can deliver it all.

The Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer would be a great asset to anyone, but for me it’s all about convenience and saving; both time and money. In this conservation age, time and money seem to be the biggest things that people are trying to stretch and get the most out of. Being right out of college I am beginning to learn these principles and have been searching for something that would make my printing easier and affordable. This printer does that with “ink that is half the cost, easy to use and that creates prints that last a lifetime.” You save time and money on one machine while producing quality prints that can be sold or just hung in the home. I have been interested in the business of photography and this printer would give me that start I need to get my work out there and onto walls of homes and businesses.

As I walked by our creek this Fall, I wrestled with the age-old dilemma — how to get a printer that has ink at half the usual cost, one that is easy to use and creates loads of superb prints that will last a lifetime. A magic frog surfaced and offered me one non-monetary wish, adding, “Make it something you need but never thought you could have.” “Gorgeous prints to please me all my life,” I cried, imagining the sleek new Kodak Easyshare 5300. Instead, there appeared the most knock-down handsome, sexy, adorable … well, you get the drift. I turned toward the creek and hollered, “I said PRINTS, not prince!”, but it was too late; the frog was gone. It’s two months later, and already I’m swamped with precious Kodak moments of the prince and me which I dare entrust to nothing but the Easyshare 5300. Alas, we still can’t afford it, for my prince is also a pauper (the non-monetary bit). And so we beseech you: grant us your amazing printer, that we and our printed memories may live happily ever after.

I am disabled; with bipolar, post traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks. Photography became very therapeutic for me. I have combined my love for animals and people with photography. I take photos of my neighbors and their pets, and children and give them away. A photograph takes on even more meaning when you give it away. What a better way to do this then with a Kodak printer. I really enjoy sharing beautiful shots with people. Kodak film was what I started with when I was ten years old. I had a pocket instamatic camera and now I can share them with a Kodak printer.

When it comes to a printer where refilling the ink is only half the cost would you be suprised that Kodak was the company that could make this Possible? With the New Kodak EasyShare 5300 printing could’nt be any easier, with an easy to use Interface and newly designed printer heads in the printer itself and Ink which is pigment based rather than Dye Based you can say goodbye to fading photographs and hello to the future in printers. This stylish new printer is your Welcome Back to printing all those Digital Memories from over the years. My experience with Kodak products including the EasyShare Z730 Digital Camera has been excellent in preserving my memories. The thought alone of owning a printer like the Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer would not only allow me to print all my Memories on Film but the thought of refilling the ink for only half the price compared to Todays Ink refill price is truly exciting. This is the type of printer I have always dreamed about and now that the dream is a reality the thought of a low Ink warning message blinking will no longer be a nuisance but rather a reminder that the Kodak EasyShare 5300 printer will live on while providing photos that wont fade and memories that will last forever. This is definetely the top item on my Christmas list this year. Thanks Kodak.

Value for money, a printer using print heads, not the cartridges means more photo’s on the wall. More photo’s on the wall means more vibrant colours covering the old wallpaper coating, more pieces to show friends, more interesting things for visitors to view and most of all an insight into an artist! There’s no better way to see results in the flesh, no better way to see saturation, no better way to view the true product of your labour after hours behind the camera. Printing is the result. A result we would all like to see in the flesh.

I live in rural Australia. Although I am an avid photographer, the nearest place to print out my work is over two hours away. Having an awesome printer (especially with the ink at half of the cost) would make life so much easier. Printing out quality Kodak photos in my own house would not only be extremely convinent but help me refine my craft immensely. Kodak has always been my brand of choice and the printer would definately accenutate my much beloved Kodak camera.

Long ago I abandoned the idea of printing my photos at home. Long print times, substandard results and above all else, horribly expensive inks all made it much more worth it to have someone else print my pictures and ship them to me. Now though, as I try to grow my fledgling nature photography business, the time and hassle of waiting days for prints seems to hold me back. I must wait to hold in my hands the results of new editing tricks. I must wait to see if a picture, as it exists in my head, translates well to the printed page. Cheap, quality prints at home would help speed up the learning and experimentation processes immensely. Now an photo that caught my imagination can be brought through to the finished product while the excitement is still in me. Also, as a side note, I must say how cool it would be to have a picture of mine displayed in Times Square

I bought a new DSLR camera this summer. I would love to have a printer that has ink that is HALF THE COST, EASY TO USE and that creates prints that LAST A LIFETIME for the following reasons. HALF THE COST of what I spend now for photo-printing will leave me plenty of money to bid in the auction. EASY TO USE will allow me to have my daughter (she who has inherited the non-technical genes from my wife ) to print out my pics while I devote more of my time to practising how to get more out of my camera. Prints that LAST A LIFETIME is important as it will also allow me to guarantee my photos during sales of ‘Grandmas Across the Neighbourhood’ – great theme, eh? - to their respective grandkids who will definitely outlive her, but not their memories of her, which of course will be enhanced by the “LAST A LIFETIME” pics (that I have taken so beautifully of course, since I got better at the craft because, as mentioned earlier, my daughter is printing the pics on that EASY TO USE printer). That being said, the income resulting from the granny picture sales will also go into the pot for the auction, which, thanks to all the benefits of said printer by Kodak, will allow me to outbid that hippy photographer (“All my pics are abstract, dude. Far out, eh?”) for the telephoto lens being offered at the “Supporting Local Regional Photography” Charity Auction to be held in the Camera Clearance Warehouse at the end of the month.

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for 5 years. After being prodded and poked for several years, we have finally decided that it is time to begin in vitro. We have begun the process, and within 12 months should have a new addition to our family. It will be a long hard road, but well worth it. Now, I know this sounds like another sob story, but I don’t want the printer because of this. I want the printer because on that day that we bring that baby home, I will begin taking photographs of every moment that we are able to spend with our miracle. We are going to need a printer that is half the cost (babies are expensive), easy to use (I don’t want to miss a moment because I am trying to figure out the printer), and lasts a lifetime (I want to be able to show the pictures to my grandchildren). With such a printer, we would be able to constantly give the family updated pictures, as well as hang pictures all over our walls. After all, what better gift is there than a memories that last a lifetime?

Even though my life is busy, I always find the time to take pictures. I take pictures to preserve my memories and share special moments with my family. My walls are my private art gallery, but recently they seem bare. Since I switched to a digital camera, I find I spend less time in camera stores. Even when I do visit the stores, I’m usually thinking about equipment, not printing. As a result, I’ve printed very few pictures since I went digital. I have a list I want to print, but it’s not convenient to drive to and from the store, pay dollars for each print, and wait for days to pick them up. I need my own printer at home; one that I can use in between my busy moments; one that all it takes is a couple buttons to push and I’ve got my picture printed; one that’s cheap, with better quality ink, where the colors won’t fade over time. That’s why I want the Kodak Easyshare 5300 – I want my digital photos to truly be easy to share.

A printer that the ink is half the cost, easy to use, and creates prints that last a lifetime sounds to good to be true. I would no longer have to shop around to see who is having a special on inks, and since I’m a stay at home mom, every little be of saving counts. Now you say its easy to use, that means I can devote more time to Photography and less time with getting familiar with a complicated machine. It would be lovely for my prints to last a lifetime, all of my family memories could be past down from generation to generation. This sounds like the perfect printer to me.

Visual art through photography depicts the architecture of our lives, enriched with poetic memories and stories that last a lifetime, and often well beyond. I come from a family where photographs are an integral part of life. At holidays, cameras litter coffee tables, and flashes go off capturing the “Kodak Moments” creating the stories of our lives. My father coached me through my initial experiences in photography, and his words of advice were to always trust Kodak products. My passion for photography changed dramatically when I lost my only child, my son Cedric. In the quiet of my profound grief, I poured over treasured photos and digital media, because these photographs memorialize the gift of his love and keeps the story of his short life alive. One day I will scan and print his photos to share with family and friends, so others will not forget. The piece of graduation cake in the freezer will be gone someday, but I hope that Cedric will live forever in the hearts of those that love him. Kodak has, for over 100 years, been dedicated to preserving the stories of our lives and by offering the Kodak EasyShare 5300, with ink at half the cost, the ability to preserve these essential memories is not only possible, but affordable. I have washed away Cedric’s finger prints, his scent from his clothes, and the sound of his laughter is now heard only in my dreams, but I see his smile in each photograph ever taken and, with Kodak’s EasyShare 5300, I can afford to share that smile with family and friends.