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Epson Printer - PictureMate PM280 review

The current drift towards the printer is the technology that allows the maximum amount of digital images to be printed without the aid of a PC connection, especially with portable models that are designed to be taken with you at parties, holidays and general social gatherings.

Epson’s PictureMate PM280 is a compact rectangular box with a comfortable handle, weighing 3.1kg and measuring a solid 215 x 152 x 178mm. For some inexplicable reason there is a window cut into the lid which is totally redundant, but under the lid is a bright 2.5-inch LCD screen with a maximum angle of 70 degrees for easy viewing.

It takes 10 x 15cm (4 x 6-inch) paper to 280gsm in weight and Starter Pack comes with a 4-cartridge color printer (Black, cyan, magenta, yellow) and 20 sheets of photographic paper. Other packages can be purchased with 50 or 150 sheets - they both come with a new printer cartridge - and labour costs to an attractive 20p per print.

Around the screen are controls on the screen (a single image or batches of miniatures), the main menu, instant print and Save. The latter is the more interesting because it allows all your photos on a memory card to be copied to CD via video recorder built into the base unit. The images stored on DVD can also be printed out from the same source, but despite that we are living in an age of recordable DVD, you can not burn to DVD.

A group descends on the front of the printer to act as a tray to receive impressions and finishes that also reveals slots for memory cards that will accommodate 11 different cards (including XD Picture Card, CompactFlash and SD) immediately and another seven with additional adapters. Round the back is the USB port for connection to PC (of course, no lead supplied USB) and a USB port for connecting digital camera with USB Direct-Print PictBridge or capacity, and an optional Bluetooth adapter.

Print time is very fast - about 50 seconds per print - and quality, color balance and sharpness of the images are considerably higher than average. If you use the antenna supplied Epson Easy Photo Print software and print across the PC, you have a slower, more refined that the establishment of Quality not give considerably more detail and color depth, but default settings speed PictureMate still appears in the laboratory occurred, no evidence of horizontal banding.

However, if you want to alter their images entirely unaided PC, then the printer’s menu contains editing commands that allow you to set the brightness, saturation and sharpness, allowing the cultivation and eliminate red eye, rotate, add frames, and even lead some color effects (Sepia and Black & White). Obviously is not as exhaustive as a specialist photo editing packages like Paint Shop Pro, but within its limited scope that works admirably.

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