This “scalable” little photo printing kiosk is built to be used with smartphones instead of SD cards or thumb drives (although those still work), making it easy to grab a few prints, create a collage, or make a custom card during an impromptu trip to replenish your paper towels or pick up some NyQuil. That’s what Kodak Alaris wants to fix with the M1 Order Station.

But you’re just as likely to find something that’s broken, and you’re almost certainly going to find a machine that’s out of date. Eastman Kodak Company has enhanced its Picture Kiosk software to allow consumers to use images from their own, as well as from their friends shared photo albums on social networks and imaging sites such as Facebook, Google Picasa and Kodak Galleryto create photo products at kiosks. If you’re lucky, it might even be working. Walk into a Walgreens or CVS in the United States, and you may be able to find the remnants of a photo printing kiosk somewhere in a dingy corner at the back of the store. Remember those old photo printing kiosks you used to find in convenience stores and pharmacies? Kodak Moments is trying to bring these back into vogue by releasing the M1 Order Station: a printing kiosk that seeks to “capitalize on consumers’ interest for photo products by offering high-quality prints from their smartphones.” I copied pictures from my computer onto a cd, but the kodak kiosk wont read my disc.

Kodak picture kiosk image format