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
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original battery. It can be charged in exactly the same way the original battery is charged i.e. using an original or 3rd party charger, or via the camera (if the device supports this feature).PowerPlanet rechargeable battery packs feature the latest battery technology, the highest quality components, and meet or exceed the manufacturers specifications. They are also designed to last longer and have no memory effect. All PowerPlanet products have a one-year limited warranty.Designed to operate in the followingdigital cameras:Olympus E400, E410, E420
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