Epson’s Photo Printers Review

Epson PictureMate Express Printer

With a touch of a button you can have quality photos that look like lab prints. It’s time to go for broke and get a photo printer that will produce superior high resolution pictures. That’s where Epson’s photo printer comes in.

Print straight to the printer without a computer or messy cables. You can use your digital camera’s memory card to print photos in less than 2 minutes. Your photos will be water, smudge and fade proof. Well, they certainly know how to write some good copy—however...in this case they match Epson PictureMate Express Printer to a T.

Epson designed the PictureMate Express with the hobby photographer in mind but it can print professional quality pictures as well. The prints will last two to four times longer than lab prints and up to 200 years in plastic sleeves. Well, I’m not going to be around for 200 years but future generations will be and it will be nice for them to see how we lived back then. (But then they will have holograms technology so they won’t need pictures)

The printer supports up to 5760 dpi, black and white or sepia tones, with or without borders photos. It uses a unique six-color pigment technology that makes the photo water and smudge proof. This same technology is how the photos can last for many years.

Epson’s PictureMate Express is called one-touch printing because that’s all it takes to print a photo. Easy to use and set up (just take it out of the box and plug it in) you can be printing your photos in a matter of minutes. It comes with a full in cartridge and 20 sheets of photo paper.

One of the disadvantages of this printer is you don’t get a preview of your picture but you can get the Deluxe model that does have the viewer. I found the quality of the pictures to be excellent, as close to lab prints as you can get.

Most of the reviewers have it right about Epson's PictureMate system—it is easy to setup and use. It can be hooked up to your computer or you can print your photos right to the printer. The Epson's PictureMate system is small enough to take where ever you want to it and print any type of picture.

This photo printer will print wallet and 4 x 6 size photos with or without borders. I like that it will print black and white photos. I haven’t tied the sepia color prints yet but it will print them without any special chemical or print cartridges.

This is a photo printer I can recommend to my friends and family—especially the ones who have problems figuring out their digital cameras.