Kodak printer- flash drive adapter (sic) required

[David H]

So I get my new printer home, it's Sunday evening so all the shops have closed, and it turns out I need an adapter (their spelling) which apparently plugs into the SD slot, which does not appear to exist on a search. I will return to a shop tomorrow but hope you beat them to it. If you want to plug a flash memory usb stick into a cheap Kodak printer (eg a C110) what tackle to you need to do so and can you buy it in the UK/online, and do you plug it in the card reader or cable port at the back?

[Buenchico]

If I've read the blurb correctly (from page 8 of the user manual), that printer accepts a Memory Stick
http://en.wikipedia.o...ck_Front_and_Back.jpg
without an adapter.

It also accepts a Memory Stick Duo with a suitable adapter:
http://en.wikipedia.o...Stick_Duo_Adaptor.jpg
They're frequently sold with the adapters included but spare adapters can be purchased (for around £3 online).

However I can see nothing in the manual, nor in the product specifications on the Kodak website
http://shop.kodak.co....r/productID.225008700
to indicate that the printer will accept a USB flash drive
http://en.wikipedia.o...Disk_Cruzer_Micro.png
either with or without an adapter.

Unfortunately, many people refer to a USB flash drive as a 'memory stick'. It isn't! (That's why I've included the pictures). As far as I can see, you're seeking to do something which your printer isn't capable of.

Sorry!

Chris

[David H]

Chris, it is a true mystery, I only bought it to use with an external memory and said it takes them. It's only when you reach P13 of the handbook it says 'memory stick with adapter', and you look online and no such animal can be found. Kodak in their wisdom would not be likely to open up to lawsuits by offering an impossible option, so they must know and may have to email them. If you can plug the memories in the bottom hole you connect the computer to (I have no idea if this has that ability) then a simple double female USB would go in the end that would go into the computer and then the card reader or flash memory. But I'm sure that would be far too easy and they want us to try and find something that dangles off the end of a false SD card, the only item you can plug in directly. It must have an answer as Kodak claim it will work with an adapter but do we have to build one by hand?

[Buenchico]

We're obviously looking at a different manual, David. Here's the one which I've been referring to:
http://resources.koda...10/ESP_C110_UG_en.pdf

The only reference I can find to using an adapter is in relation to using things like Memory Stick Duos (which require an adapter to make them appear as normal Memory Sticks).

I can find no reference whatsoever to using a USB flash drive with the printer. The products specifications (3rd link above, and click the 'Specifications' tab) also make no such reference.

Are you sure that the information you've found relates to USB flash drives, and not to Memory Sticks? (They're completely different, as the illustrations in my links show).

Chris

[David H]

Yep, just checked, case closed. I hope the shop will do an exchange as I can't use this one at all.

[David H]

The update is I took it back to the shop and now have to put all my photos on the computer and then load them up on an SD card, and now hoping an adaptor (correct spelling by me) exists to plug the damn thing in directly instead of wasting time fiddling about. So far none appears to exist.