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(More customer reviews)The technical detail:
a. The printer may be operated as a standalone product independant of a computer. It contains slots for both SmartMedia cards and compact flash PC card adaptors so you don't have to have a computer connected to the printer to use it. The printer has its own small LCD display which can be used in lieu of a computer interface to help you select pictures off your cards for printing and the printer also has a rather sophisticated built in capability to format the final product.
b. The printer has both a parallel port and a USB port for computer connection and is compatible with both PCs and MACs. Configuration software is included on CD for both types of machines. No computer cables are included and will cost you about $20 at your local computer store.
c. If connected to a computer, the printer is used to provide printed output for whatever photo editing software you already own. No computer photo editing software is included with the package.
d. Documentation is complete and voluminous. However, the technical document giving all the nitty gritty is provided as a computer PDF file readable by Adobe Acrobat software (supplied in multiple languages) and is not provided hardcopy. If you are buying this printer to use as a standalone device without a computer, this puts you at somewhat of a disadvantage.
e. The starter kit of paper and printer ribbon is adequate to print only five (5) 8x10" prints so you will want to purchase paper and ribbon with the printer.
f. Printing supplies (paper and ribbon) are expensive, costing almost $2 per 8x10" print.
The Subjective data:
The final print produced is 314x314 dots per inch and looks incredible. I have standard 8x10" Kodak prints produced from my digital photos that do not look nearly as good. Unless you are going to take your digital data to a custom printing specialist and stand over his shoulder, you will not be able to obtain a print better than this printer will give you. Recently, I was trying to restore an old 8x10" photo and scanned it into my computer at the highest resolution possible, edited it in Adobe Photoshop, and wound up with a wonderful restoration. By that time the digital image was up to 58MB size. I asked Kodak to print it, and they did. However, their system couldn't handle the large file size and compressed it to slightly over 2MB. Their final print was acceptable but a lot of the detail and my work was lost because of the compression. My computer fed the entire 58MB file to this printer and it produced a superb picture that made the Kodak image look like a childs effort in comparison. I don't know of any printer today that has comperable capability to the Olympus P400.
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Olympus Camedia P-400 Digital Color Photo PrinterTrue, Continuous-Tone Dye-Sublimation Technology For Professional Photo Prints In 90 Seconds
Connects Via USB Port To Any USB-Compatible Mac Or PC For Viewing & Printing
LCD Information Display Panel To View Images & Decide Which Ones To Print, Size & Amount
Resolution Of 314 dpi w/ 16.7 Million Colors (8 Bit/Color) & 2400 x 3200 Dots (7.68 MegaPixel)
Trimming, Frame, Background & Stamp Functions w/ Clear Laminate Layer To Protect Prints
Printing Via SmartMedia, PC Card, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Or Directly From Computer
Various Printing Modes: Full Size (7.64" x 10"; From 1 Up To 16 Images Per Page); Card (2 Or 4 Postcards Per Page); Photo-Album (1-6 Images Per Page w/ Background Image); Index (45-260 Images Per Page)
Full-Color, Black-&-White & Sepia Filters w/ Print Selection Of Up To 50 Copies At A Time
1 Color Cartridge Supports 50 Sheets Of Full Size, Card, Photo-Album Or Index Paper (Cartridge Sold Separately)
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