Epson PictureMate Personal Photo Printer

I have used an Epson Picturemate for years. They're wonderful little printers. Mine quit on me and I still have a lot of ink and paper, so I ordered one of these. I got it. It was not new and it didn't work. It continually gave me an error and would not do anything. I had to send it back. I am very disappointed.

i had purchased a picturemate printer last month.the description was written up exactly as it was.i am very happy to have gotten it,and willstart using it after the holiday season to do all my pictures.it was very reasonable priced also.

I kept reading the reviews for this printer and wanted to get one but I was afraid it would not really print as well as some reviewers stated. Finally, as a birthday present to myself, I ordered one Monday. I just got it today.Talk about easy setup! I took it from the box, inserted the printer cartridge, inserted the paper, turned it on, placed my xD-Picture Card in the slot, and voila ... I was in business.I can only hope to be able to describe to you the EXCELLENT quality of the prints I made. They were truly "at least" lab quality (if not better). The color was superb. The brightness was perfect. Detailed items were very clear. And talk about easy ... it doesn't get any easier. I printed a copy of one of the pictures on my regular everyday printer (HP Photosmart 7660) in order to compare the quality. I always thought my HP printer did a good job. Now, when I compare the two prints I can't believe I waited so long to buy the Epson PictureMate.I know that I just got it today and anything can happen, but unless something major happens to change my mind, I would HIGHLY suggest to anyone interested in printing quality pictures at home that they buy the PictureMate. I don't think you'll be sorry.

Total junk! Seller misrepresented the product. Product claimed to be refurbished but was clearly just someone's used piece of junk. Unit has not successfully printed one picture after weeks of trying! DO NOT buy from this seller as they clearly are taking advantage of their customers. USB port won't work, the SD Card port won't work, just problem after problem with a "supposedly" refurbished unit. I spend thousands of dollars a year on Amazon and this is the worst purchase by far. I feel totally scammed!!

PictureMate generally does a good job. Instruction booklet leaves a lot to the desired!!! Contact with manufacturer near worthless. Plan to use up much time/materials to finally figure out all the many features built into this unit.

The yellow ink is always plugged!!!

This is my second PictureMate. My first one lasted me 10 years, and I was so sad when it died. This printer has the best quality printing that I have seen. Yes, it is not the fastest photo printer in the world, but the convenience of printing pics at home makes it worth the wait. I just received my second one not long ago. But with my first one, I would get MORE than 100 photos from a single ink cartridge. The photos are the same quality, if not better, than you would get from sending them off somewhere to be printed. You can buy the ink & photo paper packs from Amazon, which is wonderful. I think it comes out to about 24 cents a pic to print them yourself. I am so happy that I was able to find another one of these, still new in the box, on Amazon.

Not bad for the price, but far from excellent in print quality as many reviewers are raving about! Do not be fooled and realize the short comings of this printer, and it's limitations. Over all I rate it at about 4 stars, would give it 5 starts but it is very slow, see below.First of all, if you are using a computer, and not stand alone, the supplied software from Epson, Software Film Factory 3.05 is quite useless, apart from the diver. You cannot print for example two photos onto one sheet, the wallet size option, as shown on the box the printer comes in. To do this you need a different type of software, or have to disconnect the printer from your cpu and use as a stand alone.Secondly, the quality of print is, well let's just say far from the desired, unless you click digital camera correction and also on the fine detail setting, and with these two options checked it takes about 6-7 minutes per print, to print ONE copy of the image. This is a very slow process for a 4x6" print but it is also the only way to get quality prints. For the record I have an Intel 3.0+ Ghz with HTT, IBM cpu with 1024 MB of ram, 800Mhz front side bus, thus it is not a slow processor running XP pro.Thirdly, if you use the printer as a standalone, to crop an image you have print a contact sheet which gives you variations of what is available, thus you just wasted an extra print or two before you get what you were after in the first place.Fourthly, the colors will need some adjusting to get good quality prints via your software. If you own Photoshop CS, or even Nikon's own Nikonview 6.1, as I do, to edit and to print, the above points except for the slow speed, can be overcome very easily, and can get very satisfactory images for about the same price or less that you would get at local photo lab with some effort of your own and with additional software to correct the limitations.As for digital photography replacing film, the cameras certainly now can do it, but print quality still has a bit of catching up, unless using dye-sublimation type of a printer is used, at a much greater expense which of course limited to 8x10 in size. The Epson PictureMate is a good product at an economical price, for 4x6 snap shoots with some reservations as noted.