Small PictureMate 500 Photo Printer – Review
Posted by: arayaa2010, in UncategorizedProfessional small-format photos easily, with a compact photo printer about the same size of a loaf of bread and how to develop a nuclear-powered toaster! Digital photography makes it easy and fun for the whole family, including the Windows printer driver is relatively simple. This is almost the swan song for the time gain, but frustrating and time-consuming commercial photo processing market.
The PictureMate 500 is a print job for each accessory on the marketDigital camera that supports direct printing from PictBridge cameras, most popular digital camera technologies, a computer is optional for most printing tasks, but you can not perform complex manipulations, such as reducing red eye.
A bit 'more expensive and 40% faster than the original Epson PictureMate, which contains the updated model with the portability and stylish look well thought out the functionality of its predecessors with an updated system of the Start menu.
He recognizesJPEG and uncompressed TIFF files automatically resolutions from 80 x 80 up to 4600 x 4600, print from a camera, a memory card directly to a printer or a camera phone via optional Bluetooth adapter (RRP £ 59.99), I just use my card for low cost.
The quality is amazing really what makes a good system, everything else is just very nice if you see a low vertical banding or ink droplets (errors on all inkjet printers to find) are to see youreally tight, but unlike other inkjet-based dedicated photo printers that use a 3-color process, you get professional small-format photos, not just the printing of large photos.
It uses a proprietary material archive 6 pigments (cyan, yellow, magenta, black, red and blue) and Hi-tech gloss Micro Piezo inkjet cartridge in a single piece that is, the prints are of better quality and last from contained two to four times as many major brands in the field of inkjet ink onModels.
Borderless 4×6-inch (15cm x 10cm), printing with a resolution of 5760-by-1, 440DPI, it takes only 90 seconds. The print size is limited to 6×4in prints and ink jet, in contrast to a relatively slow compared to normal patterns, but the prints have a rated life of 104 years, offered as only 75 years for the chemical process in whereby commercial developers.
E 'of 12 control buttons around a 2.4 inch color LCD () 320×240 pixels, which automatically distributesoptimized for each color photos and the quality of this printer makes a powerful compact personal photo lab.
And a set of rules, has a number of effects, such as adding one of the 16 frames, or printing from color to black and white or sepia. You can also zoom and rotate to a certain area, cropping the rest of the image from your photo.
The LCD screen is good, because it allows simple operation and without having improved to a PictBridge-enabled camera, andTo use the camera view, where you can use the camera to control the pressure "or" mark "all the pictures in advance of the interface cameras, which I find troublesome is limited.
The price for each photo processing rivals traditional high street. Prints cost around 22p each of these may seem relatively high, but it is quite reasonable compared to other dedicated photo printers – especially dye-sublimation models.
For comparison, in which you can print your pictures at Tesco costs 10p each, butlasts an hour, regardless of the number of images. My local Sava Center free of cost 35p per print (5-color process), but it takes about 50 seconds each;
Good points:
1) competitive and profitable, water, smudging the various properties, durable and professional small-format photos in minutes with a resolution up to 5760 dpi. (Saturation, skin tones, all the details well.)
2) cheap and convenient packages include consumables cartridges and paper for about 100sold glossy 10×15cm photo printing in a pack combo.
3) The pigments 6 push a cartridge piece.
Increase 4) PictBridge is, but does not require specific technologies, except for compatibility with any of the formats supported disk.
5) Easy step 3, the printing process using an intuitive user interface and a more appropriate structure for the navigation system of the printer.
6) Select only the photos on the storage medium on the baseCreation.
7) The printing and copying directly to / from CD-R/RW, Zip disk or flash media.
The ability to automatically different photo sizes including passport photos printed (I have not tried to use this function in anger, but I see no reason to reject the product, the Passport Office should – it's up to you.: — )
9) The maximum size is limited to 6×4in print, on the contrary, there is no paper-handling problems associated with the paper more roomDimensions.
Bad points:
The only negative comments I have are very superficial, and it should be noted that there seems to computer science students to have a genetic tendency to have silly nonsense!
General questions:
1) comes with 20 sheets of photo paper, but the ink cartridge printing 100 photos here. Since the input paper tray holds 20 sheets, which give it everything, so you buy an Epson PictureMate (including the photo cartridge and 100 sheets of photo paper EIAEuro 21.50) or a pack of 10 sheets of photo paper and (RRP £ 02.50)!
2) The battery is not included (AAP EUR 49.99), I had to pay a bit 'more if it were. Okay, if this is not a portable system that is marketed well, it's an option, but it is and you've already bought a laptop without the battery? So I find suppliers within the United Kingdom that the optional battery sold.
3) No USB cable (EIA£ 2.50), perhaps they think that its useless, but provide the driver on your computer and you bought before, a printer without a data cable? I could not understand, but not the batteries, USB cable?
Hardware Issues:
1) to Foto-Drucker Wie habe ich, wird es nicht automatisch resample Bilder, die Auflösung eines digitalen Foto verwendet on (dh seiner Größe Gesamtproduktion) ist etwas größer als das Fotopapier so etwa 1,5 cm um den Rand des Fotos wird nicht gedruckt (Notethat the area to be removed from a board preview the photos individually specified).
2) the media devices can not be accessed simultaneously, not exactly a bad thing, but boring as I would like to set a pressure of 3 cards and then run on foot for a coffee.
3) Depending on the nature of the photos, the ink cartridge in special circumstances, for just a bit 'like a dozen pictures. Do I get a regular 88-95 pages per cartridge, but I tend to my picture adjustments are madePaint Shop Pro before printing the otherwise dark picture
4) The cover protects the media slots paralytic is easily and simply not very robust,
5) Contrary to media card slots, there is no cover to protect the EXT / print and SUB ports, these ports are very deeply rooted in the body and thus prevents the use of Compact Flash Media Drive less.
Printing problems:
1) When printing photos, the LCD shows the entire sheet is printed and the numberI would also like information about the course, probably like / time remaining. It would also be nice if you view the photo is displayed as a background for the screen (as it is for top-tier screen menu) ..
2) Despite the claims by Epson, print times are variable and depend on factors such as ink levels, the complexity of the decision and resolution of the photo. When groups of printing photos, the time averaged about 37 seconds to 5 standard-megapixel prints. Pressure 4different passport takes about 1 minute and 64 seconds, and index prints (20 photos per sheet) is approximately 1 minute and 5 seconds (without ink charging time is approximately 20 seconds).
Do not show 3) The index considers how many leaves are required to complete the work is complete, this usually 1 to print, but in case of index, and Double-step format that is not true. This information is recorded separately pictures preview.
4) That sounds like aodd complaint, but apart from a photo of optimization are pre-set to 'off', there is the economy or the options for resolution. You could say it is a photo printer, why create 'bad' prints? However, often want to quickly print a "disposable" photo paper at low cost. You can bring the economy of paper, because (as waste ink on paper of poor quality and memory usage of ink less than you, the first) of the process?
5) Good computer interface for the driver, but need not fledged Photo & Optionsavailable printer using the interface. Note that replaces the native applications to host the orientation of the press configuration criticism, page range, and aspect ratio settings, which must be manually adjusted.
6) A preview of the interface does not allow changes to computer settings can only cancel. This fact is not heavy, is a bit 'annoying, if not save the host application, the last settings used, so you have to support the launch of defaultSettings.
Interaction:
1) The photographs are displayed in descending order alphabetically, by the name of the file of photos, so photos from a camera they appear in the order they were killed, but that is entirely dependent on the naming conventions of the camera . This may seem confusing rate with large volumes of photos organized with the real names.
In most cases, the photographs with a short prefix, then an incremental value for the total number of listed companiesPictures taken since first use.
2) Cropping photos must be done one at a time, ie there is no way to harvest is a series of photos, annoying, and since this is often necessary for groups of photos a long time.
3) when printing photos with frames, they can not be rotated or cropped, and there is no preview when printing photos with frames from a memory card, like the standard 16 frames, as opposed to where it is. This means that the manipulation must be done elsewherefirst.
4) After scrolling through a series of photos and then print a single image, citing the returns of the index for the first preview image in the set, not from the old location, confusing with large volumes of photos.
5) Scroll through a series of photos at the top or the bottom of the group, but the view of index might be more effective if there is a way to "jump" back and forth across each set of 9 photos in addition to slide forward and backindividually through the photos.
6) The following is no way to filter the photo sizes that are displayed all the JPEG and TIFF, I would choose which type will be displayed. I would also like (to identify a "non-paint" pictures that are too big / small / wrong resolution) rather than ignore them.
Software problems
1) The directory structure of the storage medium is the preview and selection shows ignored, ie all the photos are grouped together, regardless of their physical locationwithin the media.
A file explorer, view, or a separation between photo sets would be nice. Note that the display can be sorted by date, but it is quite useful for a large number of photos.
2) The date and time stamp, color, size and position are not configurable, angry when photos are made yellow, orange or red in the right pane Botton () depending on orientation. There is a format for a 2-year to two digits and the compact size is that Americanlike yyyy.MM.dd (ie backwards and the point () contained no bar)
3) Depending on the resolution, the preview image does not immediately generate and initially produce a low-resolution images on the LCD but refined rapidly – not a real problem, but this may take a long time, while scrolling through a lot in preview of research for a photo.
4) There is no provision to organize and edit images on the disk, because the directory structure is completely ignored, but IAbility to selectively delete by date or selected groups of photos and capacity of the media format that can be done in reality by the camera, but it is not always possible, I often think that someone has hit the media player and the camera is operating.
Summary:
Even with the little things mentioned above, the Epson PictureMate 500 (PictureMate Deluxe United States) is an exceptional product that anyone can use. RRP around 125.35 euros, 256×154x167mm (2.8 kg).
I think this is theMost convenient, portable printers on the market. Currently, there is 9.9/10, but I wish Epson would be 10/10, if correct, navigation and Preview "problems". I admit, it is likely that it would not be valid if all the above 'problems' to be released, but could be more easily "fixed" small changes to the firmware.
Delivery:
Epson PictureMate 500 Personal Photo Lab;
Power cords;
PictureMate PhotoCartridge;
PictureMate Photo Paper – 20 sheets;
User's Guide Kit: CD-ROM and user manual;
Main features:
Light with a simple handle;
DC and lithium-ion battery optional;
Blue tooth print optional adapter;
PictBridge cooperation;
Not depend on a PictBridge-enabled camera;
PIM & ExifPrint complaint;
Brightness, saturation, sharpness correction;
Photo Enhance, rotate, interferenceControl;
Show / index prints of the press;
Special Features:
View / Print date;
Print with or without borders;
Photo 2 of printing paper, with or without borders;
Print in black and white, sepia) tone (old-fashioned look;
Print with or without the date and time (orange);
Digital zoom (cropping);
View as slideshow storage;
Supported disc formats:
CompactFlash card;
Memory Stick;
SecureDigital Card;
SmartMedia card;
xD Picture Card;
Memory Stick Pro;
MultiMediaCard;
Microdrive;




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