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Olympus P330N Printer vs. FujiFilm NX-500 Printer.

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I'm looking for a great little printer that doesn't require connections to a PC, only sticking in a Smart Media Card. The Olympus P330-N costs $389.00 while the FujiFilm NX-500 cost $289.00 through my internet seller. My FujiFilm 4900 Zoom uses the Smart Media card.
Does anyone have any experience with ether of these printers? or made comparisons?

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Another possibility... Bob Casner 19:58:57 04/05/01 (5)
The Epson 875DC - I have no personal experience with this, there may be a review under "printers" at www.photographyreview.com, a "sister" site to audioreview. Details, in any case, can be had at www.epson.com. I believe it takes both smartmedia nad compact flash cards. My feeling is that Epson is at the top of the game now in affordable home printers for photographic quality with their 6-color system and micro piezo heads, and seem to come out ahead as far as print permanence as well.
- Epson jj 00:19:07 04/06/01 (4)
  Has had quite a few problems with print aging in some situations.
  They say that they've fixed that. I haven't had the problem yet (I have a 1270 that does quite nicely, except on darker skin tones).
  JJ
  - Dark skin tones R B 06:53:53 05/24/01 (0)
    .....1270 that does quite nicely, except on darker skin tones)......
    Can you describe the problem JJ? Is it the graduation of darker skin tones? How does it perform on the shadow areas of a print?
    
    regards rod
  - Well, I Ended Up Getting An HP Photosmart 1215 This Weekend. Vinylly 11:05:26 04/08/01 (2)
    The reason was that it was available at my local Office Depot, it had the reading SmartMedia capabilities of both the Fuji and the Olympus and it sold for about the same price ($395.00), plus the additional advantage of printing not just 4"X 6" (full size) but 5"X7" and 8"X10" as well. I was quite impressed with the 8"X10" prints, by the way, that my FujiFilm Zoom took. This will make a good "snap-shot" printer, which is all I wanted at this time.
    When I get more money I will trade up to a new cumputor that has USB and Firewire ports, a good scanner, and the Epson Stylus Photo 2000P printer which I'll be using for making reproductions of my art work.
    - So now you've gotten to play with it... jj 22:47:33 04/09/01 (1)
      How IS it?
      JJ
      - Re: So now you've gotten to play with it... Vinylly 18:36:32 04/11/01 (0)
        
        In Reply to: So now you've gotten to play with it... posted by jj on April 09, 2001 at 22:47:33:
        
        One of the PC magazines gave it high marks, next best to the Olympus P-400 (which I was also considering) but cost 1/3 the price and the paper is not nearly as expensive. It made some great 8"X10" which the Olympus P-330 can't do for about the same money. Should work great for snapshots, and fill my needs until I get a new cumputor. Then I'll be looking at Epson printers.

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