The easy way to produce photos, insert your memory card, select your photos on the bright colour monitor and press print. Features include 1.5inch colour LCD display, borderless 4inchx 6inch colour prints, supports all popular memory cards, & 2.0 USB.
Epson PictureMate 100 Personal Photo Lab Compact Printer User Reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Picture mate 100 Comment: I found that this is a great little printer and it produces good postcard sized prints which is just what I wanted. However when I ordered one for my daughter it came devoid of essential components so be advised - check your parcel before you start using it and do not be put off by Amazon stating that they cannot replace it - they can. They are always there. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't buy a Refurbished Unit!! Comment: I bought one of these refurbished from ebay...big mistake!!
The printer arrived without any ink cartridge and being a refurb unit it had previously been used and the ink jet heads were blocked.(The manual says not to remove the ink cartridge until a replacement is ready!!)
Cleaning the heads uses ink!!
It took a whole cartridge to clean the heads before it could be used luckily I used a compatible ink cartridge £4.95 instead of the original £20+.
The printer cost me £20 if I had used genuine ink cartridges that would have been 20+, then I would have to buy another cartridge £20+ because I used the ink in the other cartridge cleaning the heads!!
So effectivley my £20 bargain would have cost £60+.
I know what these printers can do and when they are working they are great little things my parents own one (£40 NEW)which made me buy this BARGAIN!!
Anyway all I am saying is spend the extra and buy it new they are worth it and the results from such a small printer are great.
Customer Rating: Summary: Most expensive photos ever Comment: Having bought this printer, I was initially very impressed with the look of the output, even at the standard quality level. However, I was suprised to find that the printer displayed a low ink level message after printing just 6 photos. On raising this with support, I was told that the printer often displays this in error. This was true, the printer managed another 2 photos, before running dry.
Given that you only get to buy the ink in a combi paper/ink pack, I now have dozens of wasted photo sheets. For me, £2.75 per photo (not including the cost of the printer) seems a little expensive. Very disappointed with this product. Customer Rating: Summary: wot a good buy Comment: i have just bought a picturemate100 from pc world. i paid 39.98 and what a great buy it was,easy to set up and amazing print quality Customer Rating: Summary: A Little Gem Comment: We have been using and abusing this printer since Christmas and it has proved itself as one of our favourite gadgets.
A big plus point is this printer accepts our Fuji/Cannon XD Cards (including the new `H' series); they just plug into the slot in the front. You can also connect the printer to a computer via the USB port or, use PictBridge to connect to a camera directly by cable. The three ink cartridge is rather like a small VHS video cassette; it slots into the back of the printer. The paper `pack' rests in a flip-out hopper at the back.
We found you get around 80 prints per cartridge. However, once you get started printing, it is very easy to print dozens of photos in one go! Maybe printing with printer is too easy. BTW, I understand there are cheaper `Epson compatible' cartridges for this printer out there - somewhere!
The 6 x 4 inch prints are bright, sharp and clear; sometimes there is a very slight banding visible in sky areas, but this is under very close scrutiny and does not affect the viewing of prints at normal distances.
The BIG advantage of 'desk top' printers is there's no waiting in line at the dreaded photo developers! Plug it in, insert the memory card and away you go. You can literally take a digital photo and get it printed out in under two minutes; that's as fast as a Polaroid!
And being so portable, you could for example, take your printer along to a family event (wedding, kids party) and provide prints of the event to take away. You could also use it for making passport style photos; no need to find a functioning photo booth that also takes flattering images!
This inexpensive little gem is ideal for anyone with a growing collection of digital memory chips and a lot of empty photo albums!
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