Kodak may have just done something smart for the first time in years.

From Gizmodo: LINK

Kodak Invents Photo Ink That’ll Last 100 years.
…Kodak drops news we hinted at yesterday: Multifunction printers pumping a revolutionary ink through their nozzles that’ll create prints with an archival life of 100 years, versus standard inkjet photos that go the way of toilet paper after 15. And the ink costs half the price. Half?! We should buy Kodak’s new printers simply because they’re not trying to fuck us on the cartridge sales.In fact, all of your 4×6-inch prints will be a lot cheaper with the new inks averaging 10 cents per print. Meanwhile, letter-size black and whites will run about 3 cents per print. The inks themselves will be priced at $9.99 for a cartridge of black ink and $14.99 for a five-color cartridge. Kodak claims this is 50% cheaper than what you’d spend on say an HP, Epson, or Canon ink refill. So we checked out their prices and in all instances, the Kodak ink saves you a pretty decent amount of cash. Whether the quality is as good—that we’ll have to see for ourselves, but analysts have said good things so far.

Oh, these printers are fast as hell, too. They’ll shoot out your photos at the rate of 22 pages per minute.

Kodak 5100 and 5300. Just as amazing as the ink are the prices $199 and $149 for all in one printers!

Now please don’t let them screw it up by not making these compatible with Macs, employing a paranoid security system like Lexmark or designing them to fall apart after three months like [deleted].

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