Epson PictureMate PM300

epson_picturemate_show_01 If you love keeping the memories that you have taken with your digicam, then you are sure to have either a digital photo frame to showcase the pictures to visitors or your own photo printer for some old school fun of viewing a photo album. Why not have both on a single device? That way, you can view pictures and then print them right on the spot when you like it and you don’t even have to stand up!

Epson-PictureMate_Show The Epson PictureMate PM300 is exactly the hybrid device for your needs. On the front, it has a 7 inch wide 800×600 resolution display like most digital frames. But flip the display up a bit and the exit outlet of the prints is shown. The photo viewer can store pictures on its 270mb memory. Though 270mb could be small when you have pictures taken at 8 megapixels that result to pictures around 4mb each, you can expand the memory via a memory card (PM300 supports CompactFlash (Type I and II), Secure Digital (SD), SDHC MMC, Memory Stick, Microdrive, and xD-Picture Card (Type M/H).

The printer component of the PM300Â has a maximum resolution output of 5760 x 1440 dpi and has the Advanced MicroPiezo technology from Epson that optimizes photos for printing. This hybrid photo printer can print 4×6 photos in just 37 seconds that would last for a long time. The prints are durable, smudge, scratch, water resistant and resist fading up to 96 years under glass so even your family’s succeeding generations can still look at your photos. There are built-in basic photo editing functions such as resize, crop, and reorientation. You can also choose different print layouts such as wallet size, mini wallet size, borderless, etc. A remote is also included for viewing and printing of pictures.

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