Arthur taped the new photo to the refrigerator, right between the yellowed crayon drawing of a house and the faded trout picture. The Kodak scanner sat on the desk, its LCD now dark, its motor cooling down.

The short answer is yes , but not without a few technical hurdles. Kodak stopped developing its printer division (now licensed to companies like Katun and Cal-Comp) years ago, meaning there are no official Windows 10 drivers. Nevertheless, a reliable workaround exists.

“You need a photo scanner,” said his neighbor, Mrs. Gable, peering over his shoulder. “Not one of those newfangled cloud things. A real one.”

The scanner whirred to life. Its little LCD flickered, glitched, and then displayed a crisp blue menu: