Professional small-format photos easily with a portable compact photo printer roughly the same size as the bread and developed as a nuclear-powered toaster! Digital photography makes it easy and fun for the whole family, even the Windows printer driver is relatively simple. It 'almost the swan song for the time gain, but frustrating and time-consuming commercial photo processing market.
Tray 500 is marketed as a pressureaccessories for any digital camera supports direct printing from PictBridge cameras, popular technology, digital camera and a computer is optional for most printing tasks, but complex manipulations can be performed in order to reduce the redness.
Slightly more expensive, and 40% faster than Epson original image print, this updated model include the ability to look stylish and well designed features of its ancestor, with a better menu system boots.
Recognizes the uncompressed TIFF and JPEG files automatically, resolutions, ranging from 80 x 4600 x 80-4600, the press of a camera, memory card directly to a printer or a camera phone via optional Bluetooth adapter (RRP £ 59.99), I only use my inexpensive adapter.
The quality is unbelievable that this is a good system, everything else is very nice if you want to see a small vertical ring of ink droplets (errors found in all inkjet printers> Printers) you look really good, but unlike other inkjet-based dedicated photo printers that use a 3-color process, you get professional small-size photographs are not only the size of photo printing.
It uses an exclusive archival pigment 6 (cyan, yellow, magenta, black, red and blue) and high-tech gloss Micro Piezo inkjet, which is contained in a single piece cartridge means that the pressure for better quality and the last two to four times longer thanbrand inkjet photo printer base models.
Edge 4×6 inches (15cm x 10cm), printed at a resolution of 5760-by-1, 440DPI, take a little 'less than 90 seconds. The printed size is limited to 6×4in and this pressure is relatively low compared with ordinary ink-jet models, but the press has a rated life of 104 years, just 75 years, in contrast with the normal chemical process offered by developers trade.
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And a set of values, has a range of fun effects, such as the addition of one to 16 frames, or printing from color to black and white or sepia. You can also zoom and rotate a given area, cropping the rest of the image of your photograph.
The LCD screen is good, because it can easilyoperation without a camera is PictBridge better and limited the use of camera view, where you can use the camera to control printing of the mark "" all photos in advance of the interface of the camera, which I find annoying.
The cost for each photo processing rivals traditional high street. Prints cost about 22p each, may seem relatively high, but still reasonable compared to other dedicated photo printers – especiallyDye-sublimation models.
For comparison, take your pictures at Tesco costs 10p per print, but lasts an hour, regardless of the number of images. My local head Sava Center 35p per image (5-color process), but it takes about 50 seconds each;
Good points:
1) competitive and cost-effectiveness, water, no imperfections fade resistant, durable and professional small-format photos in minutes with a resolution up to 5760 dpi. (saturation, color, detailgood).
2) The package contains economic and convenient to use the cartridges and paper to print approximately 100 glossy 10×15cm photos sold in a package combo.
3) On 6 pigment print cartridge contained in a single piece.
4) PictBridge improved, but not any particular technology, except for compatibility with all supported media formats of data storage demand.
5) Easy to use 3 step process of printing with an intuitive interface and an improvementnavigation structure for the system of the printer menu.
6) select only the photos on storage media based on the date of creation.
7) printing and copying directly to / from CD-R/RW, Zip disk or flash media.
the ability to automate various image formats, including print photos (I have not tried this feature in anger, but I see no reason why the Office product should be refused a passport – the image is yours.: -)
9) The largestpossible print size is limited to 6×4in conversely none of the paper dealing with problems of different sizes of paper.
Bad points:
The only negative comment I have is very shallow, and it should be noted that our IT students seem to have a genetic propensity for the useless!
Generic issues:
1) comes with 20 sheets of photo paper, but ink cartridge prints 100 images. Why Paper Trayhold 20 sheets, that everything they do, buy a Epson framework (including the photo cartridge and 100 sheets of photo RRP £ 21.50) or 10-sheet pack Premium Glossy Photo Paper (RRP £ 02.50) is!
2) The battery is not included (AAP £ 49.99), I would have paid a little 'more than it was. Okay, if it was not marketed as a portable system, so fine is a possibility, but it is and have never bought a laptop without battery? I thennot a supplier in the UK that sells the extra battery.
3) No USB cable (RRP £ 2.50), perhaps they think that it is not necessary, but not the managers for the offering computer and have never bought a printer without a data cable? I could not understand the batteries, but no USB cable?
Hardware problems
1) Like all the photo printers that I use, does not automatically Resample the images, the resolution on a digital photo(ie the total size of output) is slightly larger than the photo, then about 1.5 centimeters around the image is not (note that the printed surface to be removed are marked with a cross photos of the individual sample) .
Media equipment 2) can not be acquired, it is not really a bad thing, but annoying, I'd love to set a print run of 3 cards, they go for a cup of coffee.
3) Depending on the nature of the images, the cartridgeIn exceptional circumstances, the last just a bit 'as if twenty images. I regularly get 88-95 pages per cartridge, but I tend to make my adjustments photo with Paint Shop Pro before printing the otherwise dark picture
4) the pretext of protecting the media card is slightly lame and not very robust,
5) Contrary to half card slots, there is no coverage for the protection of the EXT / print and SUB ports, these ports are deeply embedded in the body, which prevents the usefewer means of CompactFlash.
Print issues:
1) When printing photos, the LCD shows the total number of pages to be printed and the remaining number, I would like information about the estimated time of decay / time remaining. It would also be nice if the displayed image is printed as a background for the screen (as in the top menu screen) ..
2) Despite the statements from Epson, the printing time is variable depending on such factors as inkdegree of complexity of work and the image resolution. When printing groups of photos taken of the time from an average of about 37 seconds for the kind of pressure 5 megapixels. Printing 4 different photo identification will take approximately 1 minute and 64 seconds, and the index prints (20-up), takes about 1 minute and 5 seconds (excluding print charging time of approximately 20 seconds).
3) suggest not to see how the skins are necessary for the overall work, is usually 1per image, but in case of cards and Dual format, it is not true. This information is included in the preview images individually.
4) It may sound like an odd complaint, but otherwise the image to increase 'off' is set by default, not the economy or the decision options. One could say that is a photo printer, so why create "bad" press? But, I often want to quickly print a "one" photograph on paper at low cost. You can get the paper economySo why waste ink on paper of poor quality (and remember less ink is used, the faster the process)?
5) good administrator of the computer interface, but all the effects & Photo printer options do not include the user interface. Note that the native host application print orientation critical configuration, region, and the relationship between the institutions that should override to change manually.
6) the Preview option on the computer interface does not allow changessettings, you can simply delete. Although it is not difficult, it is a bit 'irritating when the host application is not the last settings used to save, you must restart from default settings.
Issues of interaction:
1) The images are displayed alphabetically in descending order of image files, so images from a camera, displayed in the order they were shown, but they are totally dependent on the name of your camera.To quote may seem confusing large quantities of photos organized with real names.
Most images are named with a prefix map an incremental value is equal to the total number of images taken from the first time.
2) Cropping photos must be done one at a time, there is no way to use crops for several series of pictures, bad word, because it is often necessary for groups of photos and time.
3) to print photos with frames, can nottwisted, or cut and there is no preview when printing photos with frames of a memory card in contrast to the standard 16 frames in which there is. This means that the manipulation must be done elsewhere before.
4) After the exploration of a series of photographs and then print a single image, the index back to see the first image of the series, and not from the previous position, quote, confusing, with plenty of photos.
5) run a series of pictures can start from the beginning offrom the end of the group, but the index was found more efficiently if there was a way to "jump" back and forth through each set of 9 images, in addition to flow back and forth through the photos individually.
6) There is no way to filter image formats, all JPEG and TIFF images are displayed, I want to choose which type will be displayed. I also want everyone unpaintable 'images to identify (ie too big / small / wrong decision), instead of ignoringthem.
Software problems
1) The directory structure of data storage media is ignored by example and give the election, ie all images are collected regardless of their physical location in storage media.
A type of file explorer of view a separation between the set of photos would be nice. Note that the screen can be sorted by date, but is not useful enough for a large quantity of images.
2) The date and time, color, size andposition is not in question, unpleasant happens when you take pictures yellow, orange or red button right in the area (depending on orientation). There is no classification for 2 years to two digits, and the more compact form, ie like yyyy.MM.dd American (that's all backwards (slash) is not separated)
3) Depending on the thumbnail image resolution are generated directly and initially results in a low-resolution images on the LCD, but refined rapidly – not a real problem, but this canShow Preview lot of time to browse to find a picture.
4) There are arrangements for organizing or manipulate images on storage media when the directory structure is completely ignored, but I'd like to have group photos by date or randomly selected, and the ability to remove the formatting on average, although this can be done by the camera but is not always possible, often find someone has taken the media player, and the camerause.
Summary:
Even with the banality of the above, Epson Picture 500 (Picture Deluxe United States) is a unique product that everyone can use. Vejle. Retail price around £ 125.35, 256×154x167mm (2.8 kg).
I think this is the cheapest, the system of portable photo printer market. The moment I give 9.9/10 but I would give 10/10, if the navigation Epson and preview "would solve the problems." I must admit that it is likely that it would not be profitable ifall of the above "problems" were addressed, but most could be easily "fixed" by a relatively small change in the firmware.
In the box:
Epson Picture 500 Personal Photo Lab;
Power cords;
Photo photo cartridge;
Photo Paper – 20 sheets;
User's Guide Kit: CD-ROM and manuals;
Main features:
Light easy to carry handle;
DC and the lithium ion battery optionnutrition;
Blue tooth adapter optional printer;
PictBridge increase transaction;
Not depend on a PictBridge-enabled camera;
PIM & ExifPrint complaint;
Brightness, saturation, sharpness correction;
Best picture rotation interference;
View / Print pressure index;
Special Features:
View / Print date;
Printing with / without borders;
Printing 2 photos per sheet, with / without borders;
Printing in black and white sepia tones(antique look);
Printing with / without the date and time (orange);
Digital zoom (cropping);
Show storage media as a slide show;
Storage media formats supported:
CompactFlash card;
Memory Stick;
Secure Digital card;
SmartMedia;
xD-Picture Card;
Memory Stick;
Multimedia;
Units;