Kristel said ... I just (re)discovered printing iron-on transfers for fabric. A good printer is inportant for that!


Melissa said ... Love your blog! I read in my feedreader :)

Our printer is kind of... er, dated to say the least! I have a pin-back button machine that I LOVE and so I have to save up a page-worth of designs till I can justify a trip to Copy-Max to make a print-out! LOL I make all kinds of buttons, crafty buttons, environmental buttons, political buttons, snarky buttons...

It would be super cool to scan some of the sewing patterns I've come up with to put up as PDFs for download! Sounds like this would make it pretty easy, no?


sunshine said ... I love taking photos and drawing but have no way of printing them out I would like to make card ( greeting, post cards out of some of my photos) I would also like to be able to manipulate some of my finer arts into photo arts by scanning them in. would be very fun to win and very useful too.


Marilyn said ... I would copy photos to share with other family members.


Miki said ... My fabulous hand-me-down all-in-one printer that was a hand-me-down from my boyfriend died on me in the middle of spring semester. So I replaced it with cheap but portable Canon printer which does nothing but sit compactly and loudly print pages. No frills, nothing exciting.

I would truly love to have a printer in which I could scan some of my handdrawn knitting charts, swatches, and magazine patterns to reformat into printable PDFs. I am veyr much on the go all the time so having a handy paper pattern that I easily bend and write on would be a godsend.

I would also love to be able to convert some of my nature and fiber photography into post cards and greeting cards.

The addition of this printer would also free me and my now-fiancee from arguing over who has printing rights over our one printer. Everytime I need to print something (which is often since I test knit a lot of patterns) I have to email it to his account and then wait until he feels like printing it out. With the Kodak printer I would be independent and free from printer groveling!


Yvonne said ... How generous of Kodak! I use my printer to print patterns or to enlarge them.


erin said ... I use my printer for patterns, cards, everything! I love doing projects with my kids but have horrible handwriting so I print everything. The printer I use now is for my dh's work, not really great for photo's, I would love one that could print photos:)


Fanny said ... I'm continually inspired by vintage photos, especially those panormaic photos they used to take of school classes, reunions, army units, etc. I would use this great little piece of technology to help create some beauties!


JennyC.No3 said ... What a fantastic giveaway! You and Kodak rock! :)
I've been using my photos and printer for sending out personalized thank you cards to friends and family (usually with a photo of my daughter),scanning in sketches for clients of cakes i'm going to create for them and the usual standby of printing out photos to frame or incorporate into a collage as a gift.


Sister Diane said ... Lord, what would I NOT do with this unit? I've been wanting a scanner for ages, to help bring paper-based patterns to fabric and vice-versa (not to mention, scanning my print articles and making nicer graphics for my book and magazine reviews). I could also make a wicked comic book for my nephew with this bad-boy. Oh, and - the ability to make copies without walking down to the copy store? What a beautiful dream....


Shanna said ... the printer is my best friend when it comes to my crafting! there's so many things I use the printer for!
- making copies of originals so i won't mess the originals up
- printing out templates or patterns for sewing projects from quilting to clothes making
- printing my logo on to twill tape to use as labels
- when i paint i print out a rough computer sketch to use as my guide
- creating invitations, decorations, etc. for parties
i'm sure there's many more things I can use a Kodak printer for! I'd love to be able to print pictures of my son or of his computer drawn creations as well! Plus, I know I'll get a kick out of the "robot-y noises" and shooting paper!


Shannon said ... How awesome that Kodak is doing this for you!

Let's see... I use my scanner so much that it's about to fall apart. I'm constantly scanning my drawings and sketches so I can print them out and give them as gifts. It would be so awesome to actually have a good quality printer instead of my crappy Dell.


Jill said ... I have another brand all-in-one. When their friends visit, I bring out the paper and colored pencils. The art work they've made gets scanned before they leave, so they can take the original home. As a surprise, I print out a copy, transfer the design, embroider it onto muslin (be sure to add the original date) and frame it up (thrifted frames!) We have a well-received gift ready for their next birthday and I get to practice my needle work.

The Kodak brand sounds awesome! My brand works, but it's cumbersome to work. If I win, I'll gladly offer my other brand to someone locally (Diane of CraftyPod perhaps?)


MissMeshell said ... Sweet! :)

I love ironing different fabrics onto printer sized bits of freezer paper and messing around with printing my photographs onto different textures of cottons and etc. You need some sort of fixative stuff if you want to make washable items but I haven't bothered with that (just been using a hot iron because I've just been making little un-washable things to sew or frame). Fun! :)


Curupisa said ... I'm "printer- less". I had a deskjet, but it died on me, last month. I used it to print patterns, mainly. I can think of a number of other things to do with this all-in-one: printing my catalog of jewelry, printing images to make inserts for my jewelry, scanning old photos to turn them into x stitch patterns, or for printing transfers for my tags.


Jessica Hood said ... Wow...what a generous giveaway! I use a printer in crafting to print photos & other elements to use in scrapbooking, my favorite hobby. I also have needed a scanner to scan images I'd like to use for embroidery projects. Fingers crossed I win this awesome giveaway! Jessica Hood


Amy said ... I love making custom iron on's and printing them as well as printing photos. :)


reddoormeg said ... Fun giveaway! I don't have a printer right now, so these are the things that are on my mental list to try once I have one: print iron-on transfers to make kiddie gifts, scan photos for photobooks and digital scrapbooking, print on fabric for sewing and embroidery projects, print photo and digital image stationery, and on and on and on!


Sequana said ... What I would NOT use it for would be easier to list. I wouldn't use it to cook dinner. That would be about it. *L*


Andrea said ... I would give this printer to my son. He has started taking pictures with my old camera and is starting to show an interest in photography. This would be perfect for him so that he could print his pictures and maybe start a photography blog!!


Karyn said ... What a generous giveaway! I love your review, especially the honesty about the robot noises. :-)

I actually don't have my own printer, so I have to....ahem...."borrow" it from work when I absolutely MUST print or scan something.

Actually, seeing as I'm trying to be much greener than I used to be, I would probably use the scanner option much more often than the printer. I'd love to explore scanning my own artwork to see what creative things I can do with that.


stacysews said ... OOOOOh, I need this! We have a printer that I currently use for printing on fabric (directly) and for creating iron on transfers, but I would love to have a scanner portion to it too so I can expand my craftyness (I would love to scan fabric to make my own transfers and not 'found' images and to also catalog my Burda WOF magazines)..... oh, I can think of so many possiblities now!


Sarah said ... I need this printer to scan in all of my photographs. I also design invitations and would love to have a printer with this quality.


laura said ... if (IF) i had such a fancy-pants printer i'd use to it print photos for scrapbooking and family sharing and possibly start digital scrapbooking. i'd also make iron prints and stuff too.

my current printer is very old, and at most i use it to print out patterns. that's it. very pathetic.


Michelle said ... Wow, that's pretty incredible. The upside down scan thing turning right side up? That alone would make me love the Kodak printer. Don't tell the one I've got right now, but she's not so good at the scanning, and believe me, I need user-friendly!


Nicole said ... Great giveaway! I use my printer for everything... Picture of the baby, invitations, patterns, photo collages everything!


Crafty Carolinagirl said ... What an amazing giveaway! I use my printer for printing out patterns or tutorials I want to try and to make my own tags and labels for my Etsy store. I also just scanned 50+ pictures into my computer to make a picture CD for my sister's 30th birthday.



claudia freitas said ... This is a real Christmas gift in the middle of the year! I have an old multifuction and use it a lot to scan and I also use the printer to print on fabric. I have to be really careful and get the printer in a good day so nothing goes wrong but is worth it.


Susan said ... What don't I use a printer for? I use my printer for my picture charms for my jewelry that I make. I don't know what I'd do without my computer and printer! This new printer/scanner would be fantastic for scanning photos, etc. and to be able to make them into a pdf, something I can't do very easily right now. This would be a fantastic printer to be able to print on fabric too - something I am excited to try.


lil' d said ... I print on fabric, to make softie books for babies (with photos of people in their lives). I print my own thank you cards and invitations, using the kids' and my drawings. I print tutorials for later use. I've finally got a digital camera and want to print prints.

But most importantly, my ancient scanner has started making weird noises and blotching and I feel like taking a baseball bat to my current printer as it keeps chewing up paper and telling me that brand new ink cartridges are out of ink... So, Kinkos is taking all my money, but they don't do ink-jet prints and sometimes won't even let me print on card. (sorry, it's a sore subject)


Tina said ... What a great giveaway. How I use my printer .... I create my own sewing patterns in Illustrator, then I print them out. I also print out fabulous online free patterns. I scan my drawings to create patterns on my comp. Print out images for screenprinting. I print out digitally created cards. Print fabric labels and hangtags for my bags. This is only for crafting!


Daniel said ... Wow - so generous!

I don't have a printer or scanner at home, and I'd use one for just about everything! Scanning drawings in to use in my knitting patterns, scanning photos to share on my blog, and printing out patterns to share with the world - the world needs more knitted octopi.


Lisa ancarrow-maltby said ... I would use it to print out all of my photos of when I lived in Italy!!! I totally need a new printer!!! Thanks for having a great blog with wonderful inspirations.
Hugs - Lisa in Richmond, VA


E to the M said ... I use my current scanner to store inspirational pics, drawings and clippings on my computer. I print knitting patterns so I can write on them w/o destroying the original. I print images to be used for stencils. I scan my daughter's artwork so I can save it w/o it filling up the entire house. The list goes on and on and on.


Chelsea said ... I use my printer for printing knit and crochet patterns as well as recipes. We have also made a few iron-on transfers for t-shirts.


Natalie said ... What a great review! Thank you so much! We've been researching printers since we don't have one. We'll use it for crafting: tshirt transfers, scrapbooking, printing patterns and tutorials... research: my SO is going back to school... We'll definitely keep this one in mind when we start shopping for one!


Chris Peden said ... I scan vintage images and print them to use in mixed media collage. I use my printers continuously for artwork-I have a midrange Kodak digital camera which I just love-would love to have the printer, too!


Andrea said ... Wow that is awesome and I hope I win. I have an older all in one HP but it does not print color which is such a bummer. I mostly use my printer now to scan in photos I love to the computer and to print out my designs for appliqué.


Mary Jenkins said ... I have no printer at the moment! so i h would need to scrapbook my baby's pic, make invitations, business cards, little photo books for grandparents nd all that before i got really crafty..i could incorporate some printed photos into a victorian style collage! i always wanted to make one of those!


Lindsay said ... wow, great giveaway. Currently my printer is being used for all things wedding. Guest lists, place cards, invitations, table numbers, etc.


angela said ... What a great giveaway...how gernerous. Well, I love taking pictures of all and any crafts and sewing projects that I work on. I would love to have a portofolio that shows my progress and eventual finishied product. I would also love to have the ability to scan some of my old photos so I can share those as well.


kathy said ... Thank you for this contest wow i wouldnt know how to react if i won i have never been able to afford anything but lexmark and i allways wear them out. If im not printing out patterns from the web. I print out recipes. Color pages and craft ideas for my grandchildren.I also print out cards for my crafts i sell on etsy. There is so many stuff for kids to do on the web so we print crafts of all kinds especially perler beads we are doing this summer .With the kodak i would rull the world by printing off awesome projects for the kids.There is so much i could do. thank you hugs kat


Kim Dellow said ... Wow - what wouldn't I do with this printer? I've just found out that I can't easily get the ink for my printer any more :(

I'm designing my own background papers and embellishments for cards and other papercraft so this printer would be fantastic.

I also have a pile of photographs from my boyfriend's childhood just waiting to be scanned, made into scrapbooks and sent out to his family.

Thanks for the chance at this wonderfully generous give away.


Sue said ... I use my printer for patterns, how-to instructions for different knitting bind offs and cast-ons. It's an old inkjet so I can't scan anything and when you try to print in color it's not very clear so I don't print off any of my completed works. Thank you for the chance to win the all-in-one printer.


Tanya said ... I find the printer handy for copying my daughter's artwork (scaling down too if necessary) so that I can hand embroider it onto something or felt piece it.


Laura said ... I use photos in pretty much everything I do right now! I'm currently getting back into scrapbooking after a bit of a lull during my final uni exams, and a long phase of knitting every spare minute I had! and i'm absolutely loving it. I'm loving scanning, editing and printing all my photographic gems from the last year, including some wickedy-cool mosaics :) In fact, my little old printer is currently half way through producing another little gem for my latest layout :D xx


Julie said ... Wow -- I guess I've used a printer in all kinds of ways over the years. From scanning and printing my daughter's artwork onto fabric to printing out photos and original artwork on cardstock for bookbinding project.


Tammie said ... I would use the printer to make tags and gift cards. But we especially need it for it's fax capabilities. My husband has chronic renal failure and is seen by the VA hospital in Asheville. It is a 90 mile round trip for us that we can't just afford to run over there and we would use the machine for faxing prescriptions and medical reports back and forth.


valerie said ... My 10-year-old HP LaserJet6L is still working like a charm, but all in black-and-white, so it's used mostly for shop invoices & printing nice waterproof graphics that I can paint for cards. I am particularly wanting to print on fabric & SCAN years of my girls' artwork to archive instead of pile.


Kam A said ... I use photos in pretty much every craft project that I do and would love to use this printer to make greeting cards for relatives. Thank you for the giveaway!


dot said ... oh man! already 50 comments? what are my chances?? sigh...

oh well - here it goes anyway. :) *crosses fingers*

I use my current printer & scanner almost daily to scan in rough artwork for finishing on the computer, and i recently used my printer to print out homemade party invitations for the 3 year old's birthday party. I so need this because there is alot of neat crafty things i want to try that require an inkjet printer, and mine is an old color laser. I've been looking into getting an new printer and this would be great!

Plus if it sounds like a robot you know that it is really calling my name :)

-dot


Julie said ... I don't - mine sucks that badly.


Megan said ... Well, considering we have a black and white laser printer only, I don't use it for crafting. If I had this one, all kinds of possibilities would open up including scrapbooking, iron on transfers, scanning kids' drawings in and making fun stuff out of them, etc...


Wendy said ... I've used my printer for making iron on transfers for t-shirts and for making homemade greating cards. A few times I've used it for scrapping or for table decorations too!

Thanks to Future Girl and Kodak for offering such a great giveaway! Totally awesome of you!!


Cindy Keery said ... I use my printer to print out patterns, recipes, tutorials, etc.


Blaize said ... I am so glad you reviewed your machine here. My machine is headed towards the crapper, and your information that the Kodak ink is less expensive was very interesting to me. Now that I know the machine is good overall, I will definitely get a Kodak when my printer finally bites it.

In terms of how I use my printer for my "crafts." Well, one thing I do is give Super-Secret Staircase Tours of my town, and I think of that as a craft (I even had an article about it in Readymade some years ago). I use the printer to print out historical information, but more importantly, photos from the web. These need to be decent quality, because I then copy them for my handouts for the tour. I also use the scan function to get photos from some of the history books I have.

Another thing I am interested in right now is urban gardening. In my trailer park, there are a bunch of spaces that could be used for raising food, and I have been getting web resources bookmarked, and would like to be able to put together a packet about, say, small gardening in Lesotho and median gardening in London and Food Not Lawns. Color-printing would help in selling the cause.

I also make cards. My most successful cards (i.e. the ones that actually turned out looking like the idea in my mind) look like suitcases, with a handle made of a leather strip, luggage straps made of bias tape, and wee luggage labels color-copied from the box outsides of these collections of old luggage labels I have. I cut out the wee labels, paste them on, and voila! I have cards that look like old suitcases that have been around the world. I add a tea-dyed paper tag attached to the leather handle. I am proud of them.

Anyway, whether I get a free one or not, I'll be getting the Kodak, because of the ink price. And the robot noises.


christie said ... I would use it for my photos and the invitations and announements I design.


gena said ... I use my current fax/scanner/printer/copier all the time for personal, craft & business. But my favorite use is when I do my kids birthday postcard invitations. Every year I do a collage of photos from the year as a border (both the kids b-days fall within a week of halloweeen) and make up a cute- but short!- poem about what they've been up to and when the party is. It goes out as a full color oversized postcard to family & friends. Even if they can't make it to the party, they can see how the kids have grown and what they've been up to since the last invite. I've had more people try to pay me to do the same project for their kids' birthdays, but it's such a tradition with us that I won't. They can make their own, but I can't sell out. Besides, it's really easy to do on your own.


Ilissa H. said ... I like to use my prnter to print pictures for my scrapbooking. What a great prize! Thanks for the chance!


The Caffeinated Crafter said ... I think it would be easier to say what I WOULDN'T do with this beauty. But, since the question is what WOULD I do with it, the main thing I would use it for is scanning and preserving magazine articles I like. I have a tendency to horde away magazines all because I have one particular article I am saving it for. Instead of ripping out this one tiny article and losing it amongst the mess I like to call my "studio," I would scan it... create it's own little page devoted solely to it (and add notes or "reminders" to the page as well)... print it out and store it in a super-special binder. Not only does this save studio space, but I could then recycle the magazines and save the planet! YAY!


Robin Crittenden said ... I use my printer to print out patterns for future use (freebies) and I also use the printer to make copies to cut out for appliques.


Donnelly Webb said ... I use my printer to print out photos for scrapbook pages and I also use my printer to download free craft patterns for crafts like quilting, cross-stitch, tatting, crochet, knitting, etc.

This is really cool


Julia said ... I use my old printer to make iron-on-transfers, to print out layouts, patterns, photos, greeting-cards, stickers and I’d love to have a new one :)


Red said ... I use my printer for patterns, mainly enlarging them, but I'm also in the process of scanning all the family photos for a geneology project.


Debbie Dorsett said ... This would be so nice. My printer tends to eat stuff, and my daughter and I are slowing getting into scrapbooking, and need a good printer for photos. Thanks!


Kuky said ... Well I'm using my printer right now for Andy the spaceman. I'm going to print the tiny little books on there. The other Andy related stuff is going to be a surprise but they'll also be with the help of a printer.


Heather said ... Oh, what I could do with that printer all-in-one thing! Well, first of all, I'm starting to mess around with photography and photoshop, so a great printer would be wonderful. It would also be awesome to scan in pics and other items to incorporate into collages. I'd love to use it for scrapbooking, and copying patterns from magazines... ooh, I'm getting excited just thinking about it!

Whoever wins will have a great time with this one! :)


Nichol Brinkman said ... I use my printer/scanner to make silly paper dolls. I scan in drawings, change them up in photoshop, print them on card-stock!

Woo! Yay! For a giveaway!


Gemma said ... I'm stunned at this generous giveaway. :D


Izzy said ... Much like most contraptions I'm a complete clutz when it comes to technology, so what I usually do is safely press the print icon on my laptop and print every damn cute pattern I find online. Print silly drunken picures of me and my lovely girlfriends in various states of drunken debauchery. Or make large copies of those pictures to send to our professors just so that they know what we spent our time doing instead of writing witty essays about the declining economy or the state of world politics. Fun times.


Jody said ... What a great giveaway!
I use my printer for making copies of lace charts, printing on iron-on fabric, making my own cards, and for homemade business cards!


m.k. carroll said ... I'd use a new printer to print out high quality hard copies of my knit and crochet patterns. My current printer has a hard time dealing with knitting charts that use grayscale, and outsourcing the printing has been problematic for me. One local print shop managed to screw up an order 3 consecutive times, and the 3rd time, it was the shop manager who processed the order!


Nada said ... I use it to print patterns, but have been meaning yo try transfers!


rayna said ... I don't have a printer right now, but there are *so* many projects that would be much easier with one! I am so excited that you and Kodak are doing this awesome giveaway--thanks!!


Hawkeyegirl said ... I love printing out old fashioned, vintage photos and clip art. I've made picture frames, posters and even decoupaged some furniture. I'd LOVE to go crazy with this thing!


Dena said ... I would love to use this printer, so that I dont have to walk across the house to the other network printer.

I also would love it for it's green use of ink, less ink to buy means less use of containers!

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julie said ... I use printers so much I have two of them! The old one only prints (scanner is dusty so the quality is bad), but I have two computers and I hate to get rid of something that works..

I make cards and prints using my own photography and a little photoshop. I do digital scrapbooking, I just finished a 100-page 8x8 album for my son who just graduated and all of the pages were printed on it. I can't believe my printer lasted!

I'm also making a book for a dear family in town who tragically lost their 16-year-old son last year. They hired me to scan all of their pictures and photoshop the pages into a nice memorial album for them to keep. I'll be scanning and scanning and printing.. I currently have an hp c6280 all-in-one which is not too bad. But I'd love to have an even better one!

You rock, futuregirl! THanks for the opportunity to win a free printer!
Julie




Sandy said ... I scan inspirational photos with my printer/scanner-- then I print them out and collage with them.


jayjay said ... What a fantastic giveaway! I almost do not know where to start. The possibilities are innumerable. With this printer could finally print out my embroidery designs I've illustrated ages ago. Scan in other objects for embroidery illustration concepts for sewing to them to my crocheted bag. Your cute bags are an inspiration :-) Besides printing out tutorials, patterns, scanning in material for fabric collages. Countless crafts.


karen r said ... What a great giveaway! I don't have a printer. I've been wanting one for a long time. I'll have to learn what all I can do with one.


Kat Bryan said ... I have used my printer to make t-shirt transfers for our family reunions. I made the invitations for my brother's wedding and favors for my son's wedding. I also search the web for crafting ideas and use the printer to print our the instructions like for the bentwood trellis I made.


Julie W. said ... I use mine to share pictures and copy or enlarge patterns.


Melissa said ... Embroidery designs, patterns, tutorials, cut-outs, edited photos, name it!


Barbara Clark said ... What else....I use my printer to copy all those great craft instructions, knitting patterns, crochet ideas, etc. etc.
Oh and my grandchildren love to find "coloring pages" and do some serious Crayola wrok!
Barbara


Linda F said ... I would use the printer for my scrapbooking.


pintoo said ... Wow.. i cant belive this. What to do with a printer. what not.. Print Photos, patterns,labels etc etc etc. Scan my hand drawings..List goes on and on and on. :)


Maitreya said ... Whoa, for serious? Um, what won't I do with a printer? I have a ton of photos that I haven't printed out because my current printer doesn't look right, so I'd probably do that first.


Lucy said ... I haven't ever used a printer in crafting yet because I don't have one at home. I've been interested in doing transfers (for clay and fabric and anything else!) and printing patterns for a long time, so I'd love to have something like this to work with! It would also be great to turn some of my own patterns into pdf documents through the scanner feature :)


myra said ... I'd love to use a printer to make labels and scan drawings for cards.


Diane said ... I love my printers (both aging...one laser inkjet and one all-in-one b/w laser) and my crafting would not be complete without them. I make copies of patterns - to preserve the originals, make templates and mock up colour patterns for my own creations, make photocard collages with photos and pencil drawings, print labels, make groovy paper airplane templates for my son (with elaborate artwork of course!), oh yeah...and print out excel spreadsheets for my accountant...ugh.


Jodie said ... Wow - i use my printer to print directly onto special printer fabric - and when I am feeling brave i glue other fabrics to paper and printo nto them. I expect a lot from my printer - I print photos and colour blobs and designs for Gocco - before this post i never realised how lost I would be without it?


Shivi said ... At the moment I ? get pictures an darkening them and then printing them out to make a stencil, all I have to do is cut out the coloured area with a craft knife and voila I have a stencil! Recently I've also been scanning my brother's artwork(little kiddie stuff)and printing it onto transfer paper an then ironing it onto plain calico tote bags- so cute and a great way to display my brother's pictures! :)




Marya said ... Lately I've been into carving my own stamps, and I've seen techniques where you print out an image, then transfer it to your carving material. I have been unable to do this for the lack of a printer. I also like to scan in my big black and white prints I make in the darkroom so I can share them on Flickr. I would also love to actually print out some crocheting patterns I find online - instead of running back and forth from the computer to my comfy bed to get the directions for the next row (yes, I'm lazy.)


Lisa B said ... I scan progress pics of my smaller cross stitch projects and post them to my blog - I got tired of burry digital pics! (and please enter my name in the printer giveaway)


planetjune said ... I've used my printer for various crafts: printing iron on t-shirt transfers; printable shrinkydinks; printing designs to cut out with a craft knife and turn into stencils for painting on fabric, etc. I'd really like a high quality printer like this one so I can print my crochet patterns to sell, and print some of my digital photos to display around the house.


Meredith said ... Wow, what a great giveaway. I would definitely use this printer to print my photos. I've never had a photo printer, it would be so convenient! I'd also like to try fabric transfers to design my own fabric when making pillows, bags, and softies.


Cheryl said ... I use my printer for all kinds of things crafty wise. I especially like to print onto vellum for collage works, and fabric for my quilts! I'm also hoping to self publish some patterns this year!


Kida said ... I use my printer for all manner of craftiness -- photos, printing patterns, printing fabric, and much more. Having a scan option in one device would be awesome, especially since my ancient Epson is on its last leg.


Megan said ... This is an amazing giveway!

I use my current printer for scanning in inspirational images for inspiration. I have used it for transfer images and for clear overhead projector printouts for wall murals. I have used it to transfer embroidery designs and to design sewing patterns (Bunting, baby booties, baby bibs, etc.) I use it to print designs of crafts I am working on (Like a design for a king-sized quilt). I am about to try my hand at shrinky dinks and I can't wait.

It is a very important tool for me, but last week it started printing everything in red. I replaced all the ink this weekend, but it is still printing only in red. I'm hoping some serious trouble shooting will fix it... but I'm worried.

I would love to be able to trust it with more expensive materials like heavy cardstocks, and special papers to print designs for embroidery on paper for greeting cards.

Good luck to all!


Becky said ... I use my printer to scan various crochet items or samples of the items I have made for my journal. That way I have a record of either the complete item or, if it is an afaghan, a picture of the stitch and color. It is really useful since I do not posess a good digital camera. An of course I use it to print out patterns and ideas I gather surfing the web!


Laura said ... Wow - what a giveaway! I use my printer in all sorts of ways. I have been written and illustrated children's books (as yet unpublished but you never know!) and scan in my drawings/collage, manipulate, print, scan again... So good quality would be a big plus! I also use it for iron on transfers and to make little bits for sticking on cards e.g. the little messages for the front.


Jessie said ... I've never owned a printer! It would open up a whole new world of crafting for me!


towhee said ... I scan leaves and flowers on my printer so I can make photoshop brushes. I also enlarge and reduce designs and patterns for sewing and embroidery. I print the back of my cards with information about prints of my paintings that are on the card fronts. My printer now is very moody. It decides to work or not work when it feels like it.


Jessica said ... What a great giveaway! I would love to use this to make greeting cards from my kids' artwork. I could also use it for printing postcards and promos for my jewelry business.


Erin Wilk said ... How couldn't I use such a printer! From printing digital photos, to business cards, to postcards and iron-ons, it's pretty much all printer, all the time!


Blue said ... Yay! I use a printer for my shrink plastic jewelry/magnets/invitations... LOL you -name it and i've printed it onto plastic and shrunk it. I use our scanner to add images that i manipulate and print (and normally shrink!), too!

www.morethanblue.com

Regardless of any competition, Alice... thanks for taking the time to review the machine and share with us your experiences with it!

xx Tanya





Michelle said ... I'm just starting to use my printer for art. To print patterns, or outlines for transfers, or embroidery patterns. I just bought some paper dolls online I need to print but don't know if my printer will do a good job, we'll see!


Verna G. said ... I use my printer for many things: photos, digital/hybrid scrapbooking, paper toys, cards, patterned papers I created digitally, and the list goes on!

Thanks to you and Kodak for this opportunity!


Renee said ... what a great giveaway! I would love to use the printer to make those old fashioned cut out, paper dolls we had as kids. The ones with lots of clothes that were held on by small tabs of paper. This way, I could design my own clothes for the dolls - and match them to the clothes of my little cousins, who I am sure will love them!!!


Nina said ... I use my printer for scrapbooking, embroidery, and other general craft stuff. These days I use my all-in-one for scanning advertisements from the 40's and 50's, printing them on transfer paper or using transfer pencils, and embroidering them onto scraps of fabric. I'm thinking that eventually I will piece all the scraps together and make a big quilt :)

Thanks for the contest!


Nanci Howard said ... I like to use my printer to print on fabric and then use the fabric in my purses and quilts.


Rachael said ... I use our printer all the time:
digital scrapbook pages that I then bind into albums
cards for birthdays, christmas and just to say hello
labels for my craft boxes, shoe boxes etc
recipes with an image of what I cooked
Patterns
t-shirt transfers
window clings
photos of finished crafts to file for next time


Berlinswhimsy said ... Yay, I'd love a new printer! I use my printer for many craft projects, including: re-sizing sewing patterns; reproducing patterns of all types of crafts to take with me; printing out patterns I download off of the web; and creating my own patterns for kits I've been selling as packages at a local store.

Thanks for the review and this wonderful giveaway!


Wendy McBride said ... I would use the Kodak printer for various scrapbooking projects such as printing pictures, scanning, patterns,...etc..This would be great!


Tasha said ... I'd love one of these! I really need a fax for sharing ideas with collaborators across the country! I'd love a scanner as well, for making PDFs of patterns and for scanning images and objects for later digital manipulation.


Andrea Mette said ... I'm big into scrapbooking so I print pictures ALOT!


Lucy said ... Wow! that is an impressive giveaway! I am so happy you are getting so much attention. You are pretty marvelous.
I use my poor little printer to make copies and send my pattern drafts to my graphic's designer for digitizing.


caroline said ... How fun would a new printer be?!?! I use our second-hand printer to print off patterns, photos, and tutorial instructions (I work better off paper than off a screen). We also print off trail maps, not to mention zillions of things for teaching...

Thanks for such a fantastic craft blog :)



amy said ... My printer is crusty. I use it primarily for printing out tutorials, and creating stickers to put on my tags for my etsy stuff. If I were to recieve a new printer, I would start printing out my own labels on printer safe fabric, as well as experimenting with images to use on fabric. I would also like to make my own business cards, and cool things to include in my packaging. Plus I would print out pictures of my son.


michelle said ... I make art quilts, take photos, print it out on cardstock and stitch it onto a card.
My printer doesn't quite give me the quality i'm looking for. A new printer would be great.


Frizz said ... I use my crappy, little printer now in just about every creative endeavor. I print all my art in black and white and use the prints to trace for embroideries, paintings, stamps and softie patterns. Not to mention the photography stuff. What an amazing giveaway...you are big time!


Joanna Schmidt said ... I make bath and body products, and I use my printer to make jar labels. My company is Product Body. We are a small indie company that makes our own labels! :D Pick me!!


Emily S said ... Wow, a printer would increase my crafting ability ten fold! I'm thinking of the ink jet shrinkydinks and lots of pattern printing!


Mia said ... Oh! So exciting! I've just recently branched out from crocheting to sewing, and I find I mostly like to make "memory" type crafts....so, recently I've had to print onto fabric and transfers. I'm thinking a new printer would help a lot! ;)


Joanna said ... I like to use the prints to make collages they decoupage them to the wall!


Sam said ... I made some of my own printable fabric by sticking big sheets of paper to plain white muslin and sending it through the printer.. it works great!


sarah said ... I use a printer to print all my packaging and labels for my handmade felt goodies...sometimes I have to print 5 sheets to get one good one!! It makes me tear my hair out (and swear a lot too!)
A new shiny, clever, printer like this would be a cure for self-induced-lady-baldness :-)



Jo said ... I don't use my current printer much as it doesn't really do much else besides print. I was totally inspired by your first post about this kodak printer and was looking for a camera at the same time so bought a Kodak Easyshare - it's a great first digital camera! All the settings are fab and so easy to use! I bet the printer is easy to use too...*drools*

However, I do use my printer for very basic things. I use it to print knitting patterns and cross stitch patterns. I print any art or photographs I like which aren't copyrighted and which inspire me in some way.

Having a scanner would be a fab upgrade for me - I scan all day at work but then come home and don't currently have one for my craft work, which is so sad :@(! The facility to compress PDF files is so fab too as it would be easier for a reader of my blog to download any patterns :@)

I could start printing out my photos and easily scan patterns for lots of new online buddies I'm making since becoming a blogger! It would also help me on my way to becoming (hopefully) a freelance craft writer!

:@D


Terri said ... Hi love your blog
hmmm how I use my printer for my crafting.....I print out patterns for sewing clothes, diapers. I print out stencils for when I finally try my hand at freezer paper stenciling. I want to hopefully soon print out pictures onto cotton fabric to make a family quilt. I also print out all the wonderful tutorials I find online like tutorials on making dolls and wonderful stuffed animals. thanks for this awesome chance!


LisaB said ... My printer does all the signs for our craft fair and all the dull business-related printing. We do all the fun stuff by hand. But with a printer that could do photos... the possibilities would be endless!


Cardea said ... Well, I don't have a printer at all, but I would love one of these for the great print quality. Then I'd be able to print pictures of my work as a portfolio to take with me to artsy shops around here to convince them to sell my stuff. The low cost of the ink would be wonderful as well since i'm on sucha tight budget.


Arlene said ... My printer has a life of it's own. It spits out awesome scrapbook pages, embellishments, craft ideas, patterns, recipes, letters, my newsletters, pictures, stuff for teaching my second-graders, important information. My favorite use though, is the pictures and my scrapbooking. There's nothing like looking at one of my creations a minute after I tell my printer to give it to me. Thanks for the contest and all your craft ideas! =)


Jenn said ... I'd start by scanning old family photos to create collages and scrap book pages. I'd love to create small keepsake albums for family events and personalized cards and recipe books with our favorite family meals.


melissa said ... Wow how do I use a printer?? I print images I want to transfer as a screen image for purses I've made or shirts. I print up quilt patterns and coloring pages to get a feel for colors. I would love to make my own labels using transfer paper and a great printer. I don't think there is a crafty project I do that wouldn't include a printer. Unfortunately I need to move soon and my current printer is not that wonderful and isn't even mine. It belongs to my landlord. I have no photos printed because it's not something I can do on this printer now. There are so many things I would love to do and print but am unable to. I'd really love to print copies of photos of my Poppi to make a memory quilt for my Nonni including some of his old shirts. A printer like this one would certainly help with that. Thanks for all you do Alice. You are inspirational and I've lurked on your site a long time. Please continue posting your projects!


kat said ... ugh that would be a long, & probably boring list for you to read. printers make crafting so much easier.

instead i'll tell you of something i wanted to do years ago, but the man didn't think it would be as funny as i did: scan photos of my kid's bum, & print them onto transfer paper. i would then iron the bum-photos onto shopping bags for the grandparents for xmas. heehee.


Loralynn said ... I always find your blog posts interesting and helpful...this one is stellar! I use my printer for all kinds of crafts. From paper projects for my Daughter to printing on fabric for embroidery! I print out photos that I have artfully edited (I love sepia tone main images with colored flowers) to images for ATC's. I could definately use an upgrade on my printer though, it's just not quite doing the job anymore...it is almost 10 years old! lol

Anyways, thanks for all the great reading on your blog!


Jess said ... Great review! I really like Kodak products. For me, other than printing pictures and patterns, I love to print reverse images on sheets of clear acetate sheets to use for transferring images onto fabrics (using a gel medium). I also like to print on shrink plastic sheets and make charms & buttons for jewelry, keychains & scrap books.


Karin said ... WOW, what an amazing giveaway! The only printer we have right now is really old, slow and generally outdated. I use my printer for printing out embroidery and sewing patterns, photos for scrapbooking, pictures and text for my Artist Trading Cards, and great tutorials like the ones on your blog! Also, I have recently started making memory quilts, and that includes printing photos on fabric. It would be amazing to win such an awesome printer, because with memory quilts it's important to get good quality printouts that will last a long time without fading, and my current printer isn't quite up to that challenge... Fingers crossed! /K


jacqueline said ... My daughter is going away to college this fall. It is my goal to create intriguing mail art for her while she is in school. It isn't the same as getting a long newsy letter, but it should add to the excitement as each new piece of art is collected by her at the mail room. She is a pretty shy kid and the thought of sending colorful art made from scanned images, photos and ephemera from our daily lives might just make her room mate or those standing around the mail boxes wonder just how cool she really is... and she will get little slices at home. The best part is that I can catalog all of them and create a little end of the year book with the images as a souvenir of each year! A very cool mother daughter bonding moment all with the help of art and a printer!


Flor said ... These are a few of the things I would do w0ith a functioning printer: I take tons of pictures of my three small children. I love to print pictures and incorporate them into gifts, such as mini albums and labels. I also like to print elements for cards, scrapbooks and collages. I also love to resize embroidery patterns.


Kay said ... I would love to use the printer for my card making!!!! :)


sue b said ... What an awesome giveaway! I make books and journals so I'm always using my printer to create pages to include in my work.


aurora fox said ... I use my printer for quality prints of my original textile designs and to print images on fabrics for my art quilts....


Alice said ... I use my printer for family photos, card making, scrapbooking, journaling and various other paper crafts.


amanda said ... I use my printer to print out sewing patterns I find online. I use my printer to print photos to scrapbook. I even found an online store that sells scrapbooking paper you print yourself, so I use my printer to print that too.


Jennifer said ... I use my printer to change the size of cross stitch patterns and other embroidery patterns. I also use it to print out patterns and crafting instructions that I find on the internet. My uses are limited as I have no copier or scanner, only a basic and very antiquated printer!

I've been a loyal lurker for many many months. It took an awesome giveaway to de-lurkify myself. Thanks to futuregirl for all of her fabulous creations. I enjoy them so much and have learned alot. Props to Kodak too.


stephanie said ... mmm...printing in crafts. I recently tried to take up printing off black and white pictures and coloring parts of them in. I want something satureated, and am still working out the kinks.


Fuji Mama said ... My printer gets put through the paces when it comes to my crafting! Whether I'm printing off patterns or new techniques or printing iron on transfers, it is rare that a day goes by without my printer being involved in my crafting process.

 
LizzyJ said ... WOW! What wouldn't I do?! I could use a good scanner to scan 3-D collages (capturing all the yummy textures)so I have them to print out for future collages. I would also scan all my vintage photos I find at antique stores so I can print them over and over! They are so hard to part with otherwise!