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choose the right photo printing tools for scrapbooking

Documenting your family history, with scrapbooking techniques, can be as simple or as advanced as you wish to make it. Once you have your album, scissors, adhesive, extra cardstock, printed papers and your embellishments such as stickers and ribbons you are ready to get started.

That is of course assuming you have already chosen your favourite photographs to be archived. The process of taking photos today is changing as more and more of us are purchasing digital cameras. The advantages to digital photography are undisputed; you can immediately see what photo you have taken, if you have accidentally put your finger over the lens or chopped off someone’s head, you can reshoot straight away. You can even share images via email and store them on your computer.

Owning digital pictures is of course, only half the story – you need to have a high-quality photo printer to produce your photographs for your scrapbooks.

The Epson Picturemate is the essential digital camera accessory and ideal for producing photos for scrapbooking. It is compact and stylish and makes high-quality, cost effective digital photo printing easy even if you are a bit of a technophobe. No longer do you need to chase into town, find that elusive car parking space, queue up with everyone else and then wait for your photos at the photo lab or even spend the time uploading images onto your computer to send to an online photo service.

PictureMate is your own Personal Photo Lab giving you full control of which photos you print, when and where you print them. You can print as many copies as you want of your favourite images, ideal to test out new cropping techniques, or to use more than one copy of the same photo in your layout.

simple to use - creating lasting memories
By simply removing the memory card from your digital camera and inserting it into PictureMate, you can print out all your images – creating glossy borderless 10x15cm photos without the need for a PC.

It will accept all popular memory card formats and is not restricted to any specific camera manufacturer. You can even chose to print in colour, black and white or sepia via the PictureMate’s step-by-step LCD panel. To accompany your PictureMate, EPSON have produced a PicturePack. It contains 100 blank photos, all you need to do is fill them in with your favourite memories. Each photo you produce costs only 29 pence per print making it affordable too.

quality and convenience
Recent research revealed 75% of respondents thought that PictureMate prints were actually produced using traditional photo lab techniques? Proof of the superior quality of prints achieved with EPSON’s PictureMate.

What’s more, according to an independent research laboratory they resist fading about two to four times longer than the leading brands of photo lab prints and up to 20 times longer than prints from other dedicated 10x15cm digital photo printers. PictureMate photos resist fading up to 100 years displayed in a frame and are also water, smudge and fingerprint-resistant for worry-free handling.

liberate your camera phone
If you love taking pictures with your camera phone, PictureMate can print all those candid photos for you – via an optional Bluetooth adaptor®. All you need to do is take the picture with your Bluetooth®-enabled camera phone and send the image to the PictureMate via Bluetooth®.

If you are an advanced user and want to create photos up to A4 or A3, Epson have a model to suit you. Consider:

	Epson Stylus Photo R200 Premium quality home photo printer with direct CD/DVD printing More
	Epson Stylus Photo R300 A complete photo printing solution for digital photographers More
	Epson Stylus Photo R800 The printer that brings photography out of the darkroom More
	Epson Stylus Photo 1290S Superb Quality, Versatile A3+ Photo Printer More
	Epson Stylus Photo R1800 A flexible A3+ printer that provides durable & high quality photos More