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Great when you have to have that photo feel

Advantages: Beautiful continuous tone, photo quality prints, great "feel" to prints fun to watch print
Disadvantages: cost, proprietary papers and ribbons, lack of wide color gamut, max-print size 7.64 x 10.146"

While the Olympus P-400, dye sublimation printer makes one heck of a nice photo print with all the look and feel of prints you'd get straight from Kodak, it is one expensive peripheral. It's definitely not for everyone. To give you some idea where I'm coming from in my comparison of this printer to inkjets, I have an Epson 1520 and an Epson 1270 as well as a Okidata laser. I've done actual photo file comparisons between several HP, Olympus and Epson ...
...printers. Anyway, the Olympus printer uses a completely different technology that either traditional inkjet or laser printers, utilizing heat transfer of the color pigment from a ribbon. It does this in a 4 pass process (three color YRB and the final pass puts down a clear protective coat) It's a blast to watch it print. Each full size print takes about 90 seconds (according to the manufacturer, I see it taking slightly longer ~120 seconds per print) ...

hawklady99 08.03.2004 · Read Full Review
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Review of Olympus P 400

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Epson Stylus Photo 1400

Advantages: very good
Disadvantages: none

In my opinion this is the perfect printer for enthusiasts of the picture, that try to combine a fantastic impression quality with an excellent value. And for small offices it is a tool very useful for professional presentations. Picture quality is excellent cause every photo or other document that I print on her stay with an excellent quality.I use my print at home mainly for print my favorite photos, I am realy very satisfect with the print quality ...
...print, I can't stay waiting minutes and minutes to have my prints.It is take some litle minutes to print. The colours stay fantastic, my photos stay just very perfects and the colours stay very good. It is easy to use, I just read the manual once and seemed that I always use him, until my children use her to make school works and do not have any dificult to do your lessons. Her price is not very cheap but really is very good and it is worth for ...

andrezarocha 03.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Epson Stylus Photo R280 Photo Printer review

Advantages: PRINTING CD's AND DVD's
Disadvantages: Poor paper handling--but see addendum

...cardstock. I went through the Epson website trouble shooting screens, and I discovered that the maximum paper weight it can handle is 24 pounds (that's the weight of fine office stationery). Cardstock is usually 50 or 60 pound weight. If I had discovered this earlier, I would have purchased a different printer. As it was, I think Epson made the specifications too vague, by specifying cardstock rather than the weight of usable paper. Addendum: In ...
...paper jam could be reduced by feeding sheets one at a time. I tried it, and the printer worked like a charm--smooth paper feeding and fast printing. The only drawback is that I must stand by the printer and feed each sheet of cardstock one at a time. I should mention that Epson, unlike many vendors, includes high-capacity ink cartridges in the box. Please consider this a four-star, not a three-star, review. ...

suryadiho 02.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Epson Stylus Photo R285

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The styliest printing machine ive ever used

Advantages: prints both pictures and office document
Disadvantages: none

From my point of view epson stylus photo has been one the best printers i have ever used.the print quality has been so splendid.prints on any kind of paper even on cds.and the printing speed is very fast.and the print on glossy paper is excellent.also its vibrant colours and excellent image quality and dries instantly. the design is very cute and easy to carry around.whenever im traveling on long journey i do carry it along with me. normally most ...
...phone. i do print my pictures after transfering them to my computer.one thing that is also facinating about this product is the glossy finish i really love every picture that is being printed out of this machine it also delivers a bright vivid colour idael for making wonderful prints at home and office.i also get to know some guyz who carries the machine around during some kind of events.so they can instantly print pictures taking from that event. ...

greenbay 28.06.2009 · Read Full Review

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Brother HL 2035 - High Quality, Fast and Reliable

Advantages: Fast, Reliable, Cheap Ink
Disadvantages: None so far

I bought my Brother HL 2035 Laser Printer from Ryman Stationary for around £40 (cheapest I could find). Very easy to setup; I was ready to start printing 15 minutes after opening the box. Came with instruction booklet and CD with instructions (accompanied by helpful animations) and installation. It is compact; saving a lot of space in a small work area. Very fast printing (up to 18 pages per minute) and high quality. I have used this printer ...

LauraN88 25.06.2009 · Read Full Review
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