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Epson PictureMate Zoom (PM290) Photo Lab Printer (Silver)

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I would just like to say that I have had 2 Epson PictureMate printers and they both have been awesome!! No other printers seem to compare to Epson's photo printers. This one, the Zoom, will not only print your pictures but will also copy your pictures to a cd, Awesome!! The LCD screen is alot bigger on the Zoom than the other ones. I am nothing but pleased!!

The pictures you get are gorgeous. If you want to pay about a buck a pic, that is. The ink cartridge DOES NOT LAST! We get between 35 and 50 pictures, not 150. This is the second time it has happened, and we use the cartridge well before the "use by" date. See the reviews on the cartridge pack for verification. This was our first Epson, we usually only buy HP, and this will be our last. Too bad Epson would rather make a buck on print packs than be customer loyalty oriented, but what else can we expect these days?

My husband bought this for me because we have 6 kids and I live with my camera in my hands. This is so convenient, I can take it anywhere, I don't have to have a computer to crop, zoom or take out red eye. The picture quality is great and I love that it gives me the option to add a date stamp to each picture. Being able to copy my photos straight from my memory card to a disk was just a super bonus. This is a great product. I even like the ink and paper packs, I mean I spent over $40 just for 3 ink cartridges for my Canon printer which took 6 cartridges plus I still had to buy picture paper, so to get all the ink in one cartridge plus 100-150 sheets of picture paper for less than $40 I think is a great deal.

It may be small, but big on picture quality. I had seen this machine a couple of years back at a scrapbooking convention, and had already seen the quality of the pictures. I was impressed for it's size, I didn't expect much. I do already have a much larger EPSON printer that is over 24" long, that cost over $1000 when it came out, and can print 13x17 pictures with not only 10 cartridges of ink, but 5 of them being black. Yes, this is a phenomenal printer too, especially since I do so many black & white photos, but certainly not portable. I wasn't able to find this PictureMate printer anywhere in a store, no matter where I looked, but didn't consider going directly to Epson at the time. I was just surprised it couldn't be found at Best Buy or other Computer stores. Two years later, I attended another CRAFT HOBBY ASSOCIATION convention and took a class, which was not sponsored by Epson. This class changed my thinking about scrapbooking and my style at this time in my life, wanting to simplify everything. I got to use this PictureMate printer in that class; print as much as I wanted, and try all the menu settings and options out of the box. I have never used my camera flash storage directly to printer before either. I always download all my photos, and store them in folders, and rotate them and organize them in Photoshop Elements, which is time-consuming and vulnerable at the same time. The printer takes many camera's flash storage, and it was simple without having to read manuals. It was super fast & easy, and I LOVE the index prints. It also surprized me having all those different print sizes that would fit on a 4x6 borderless (if you choose) sheet of photo paper. Two years after I initially saw it, I realized it had been improved and had more options, including the cd writer! How convenient! This PictureMate is even better than I expected. I originally wanted this just to take this to scrapbooking crops and our annual scrapbooking retreat since it has power cord, but can even run 9 hours on rechargeable battery! I thought it would be great to have current pictures from crops and conventions and be able to print them out to scrapbook them immediately in some of my class projects! But since I took that new class showing me how to scrapbook a condensed version of a calendar year into a smaller book with plenty of journaling pages from Creative Imaginations, I've got this printer on my desk and used it quickly to put together mini-books from our summer vacations. SO, I'm kind of glad that I had waited because i got even more for my money, payed the same price as I would have at Epson, and earned rewards from AMAZON for doing so! What I didn't expect, is that my larger photo printer would be getting dusty!

Great little printer - no bigger than a lunch box. I used this at a party and presented the guest of honor with an album of photos taken just minutes after they were shot. Sharp,good color, easy to use. I recommend if 4x6 prints is what you want.

What a great product. The picture quality is terrific. The printer is small and easy to use. It is very versatile.
Can't imagine a better companion product for the digital camera.

Pros: great print quality. Cons: eats up print cartridge fast. Must buy replacement with photo paper combo kit (unless you try off brand).

i highly recommend this product...the print quality is proffessional grade it is fast in printing multiple prints the cd burner is a really nice fearture you can add clip art make wallet size prints and even edit the pictures. i have no regrets in buying this printer only con i can say about it is that it doesnt print 5x7 but thats ok not really a big deal

It's small, fast, portable, user friendly, and the color is terrific! My only regret is that I didn't buy one sooner!

This is my second Epson printer, and I just love it! Easy to use, no computer needed. Would recomend this product to anyone. Best of all, I now can save my pictures to a disk myself...no more heading to Walmart.