Perfect Photo Printer

by Data Becker

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000063XOQ
• Item model number: 60204
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,753 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Perfect Photo Printer is designed to give you maximum control over the quality and arrangement of photographs on the printed page. In this way, you can not only make sure your photos are sharp, bright, and cropped properly (using the included editor) but make sure that you're using the maximum paper space whether you want to print an individual photo or arrange multiple photographs on a single page.

The program helpfully starts with a wizard that walks you through choosing the appropriate paper size--there's a choice of over 30--and then importing your photos either from your PC's hard disk or directly from a digital camera, a scanner, or a previously created Photo Printer project. The photo editing controls are rudimentary compared with some other programs, but they're good enough to improve general snaps and include a setting for removing red eye from indoor portrait shots. There's also a multiple-undo feature so you can make changes to a photo, change your mind and step back through the process to the point where it all went wrong, then correct it.

Although printer manufacturers have become better at providing utility programs to help you print out multiple images effectively, this does the job too, and at a reasonable price. --Rob Beattie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Would NOT reccomend, March 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Perfect Photo Printer (CD-ROM)

This program does not do at all what it claims to do on the package. I have not been able to print pictures as I want to -multiple pictures on one page. It is not user friendly at all. I have a lot of experience with a variety of applications and I have not run into one like this yet.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not enough help in the manual, July 30, 2002

By 

Barbara Rhoades "Jackie of all Trades" (O'Fallon, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Perfect Photo Printer (CD-ROM)

PERFECT PHOTOPRINTER
SOFTWARE
PUBLISHER: Data Becker
REVIEWED BY: Barbara Rhoades

SOFTWARE REVIEW: Perfect Photo Printer" comes with two perforated 5" x 7" sheets of glossy photo paper, one CD and a two-faced sheet of instructions. It was very easy to install and acquire the photos from a digital camera through the use of TWAIN. You are able to do contrast, brightness, gamma, blur and other photographic corrections to all the pictures.

When I went to print, I was unable to find how to print several pictures in a size smaller than an 8" x 10". I went to the help menu and located the following:

Printing
The preparation of the projects, the compilation of the images, and the image editing in the Editor finally lead to one thing: printing the prepared images on the desired photo paper. Depending on the paper manufacturer, type, and format, you can have one, two, four, ten, twelve or even 16 individual images on one sheet. There may even be more variations added through manually defining the paper format or through updating the formats online.

When clicking on individual images, an error message stating "The topic does not exist. Contact your vendor for an updated help file. (129). As this is new software, having to contact the vendor right off does not make this it completely up-to-date. Looking through the Help menu, trying to locate how to print several pictures on one page was very much like looking in the Yellow Page for something. You look under one thing but they have it listed as another and you were unable to figure out what that was. Templates, Built-Ins, and thumbnails were not found in either the index or find sections of help. In looking over the images on the box, there was a Print screen that showed a page format in 3" x 5" size. Reopening the program and going to that Print screen, you could click on what was called Paper Format. There you found a way to change the layout of the page and produce the wanted 4 pictures on a page. Page Layout was what was trying to be changed, not the TYPE of paper to print on. Therefore, this was not the place one expected to look to make this change.

When saving pictures, they are unable to be saved as anything but an .FPR format. Unfortunately, this format is not compatible with the other graphic programs and makes it impossible to ready them for web designing by using "Perfect Photo Printer". This program is for someone who just wants to print pictures for their family. It is not a program to be used in getting pictures ready for web use or for anyone with more than marginal knowledge of photos and digital cameras.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DON'T BOTHER!!!!, October 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Perfect Photo Printer (CD-ROM)

I am not one to write reviews, but this one is so bad I just have to! I have many programs for all sorts of photo editing and photo printing. Some are great and some need work. But this has got to be the worst program I ever spent my money on. The box image and cover program description make a consumer feel that you can print multiple pictures on one sheet of, as they quote "expensive photo paper" with great ease and little effort. There is no simple way to set up one sheet with multiple size photos let alone multiple images as they seem to advertise. There also isn't a tutorial book, just a two sided 8 X 10 sheet that tells you nothing. I had to go on line to even find out the following info on how to print "multiple" images.
What you have to do is set up ONE photo in their program, pick multiple prints, pick out what size you want, print that, set up the next photo, put that same sheet of "expensive photo paper" back into your printer making sure it is in the proper position and alignment, print that photo, and so on until you have filled up your "expensive photo paper" with the images in the various sizes that you want. On top of that I could not find a "print preview" to double check that where I wanted the photo was exactly where it was supposed to be. What if you did put something in the wrong place and you printed over the first, second, or whatever picture. Not only have you wasted another "expensive sheet of photo paper", you have also wasted expensive ink.
Please take this review as a warning. Even if the program was free.....it still wouldn't be worth it. Save your money, I wish I had!!!!!