Epson T5846 Picturemate 200 series print pack, glossy, 4 x 6, 150 sheets

Customer Reviews

Picture Perfect

2008-01-07
I first saw this printer in action at my daughter's house while visiting over the Thanksgiving holiday. She being a techie whipped it out of the box, loaded it with paper, and began printing. It seemed easy to me (a non-techie), so upon arriving home in California,I ordered it,too. It was as easy to set up and I was printing as well as editing pictures minutes out of the box. The color is true and I was able to handle the prints, smudge free, as soon as they left the printer. My only concern is that the cartridge that came with the printer has not lasted as long as I thought it would - maybe the company doesn't put a full cartridge in to begin with? I have a new cartridge ready to go, so will test my theory soon.
BC in California

refill for Dash

2008-01-01
Great price! great product! Enjoy doing business with Amazon. Seem to get best results using Epson ink and paper combo. Beautiful, high quality prints.

T5846, Epson PM 240 ink & paper

2007-12-25
I have been very happy with this purchase so far. I have used about half of the ink in the pack so far. I like the idea of getting one new cartridge vs. 6 separate ones. I was always out of one or the other before and now it seems like I will waste less ink this way.

Great product

2007-10-08
It has all you need: paper and ink. You merely supply the picture card.

Epson PictureMate

2007-08-05
The Epson system is very simple to use and produces sharp 4 X 6 prints with fine color reproduction.Sometimes you get lines across the print
or even no picture at all.This is due to a dirty surface.It is easy to clean although uses some ink.Each ink refill lasts a long time.I bought mine for $99 and regard as very good value for money

paper of good quality, price a bit high

2008-05-22
The pictures turn out very nice, with vibrant colors. The ink cartridge does empty before I get the chance to print the last 5 to 10 pictures in the set. Also, the colors turn out matte if I try printing while the low ink message is displayed. The price per picture may not be far from the amount charged when printing in a store.

Despite all the drawbacks however, I would still recommend this product and the printer it is used for, because they offer the advantage of allowing you to print good quality pictures at one's own convenience-provided there's ink in the cartridge.

mng and easy to setup

2008-05-18
Works great for the pictureMate 200 series. good priced toner and system overall, print results are quite satisfactory. just be careful and make sure you are indeed bying for the PM 200 as this is yet another specific cateridge type.

Epson print pack

2008-04-10
Excellent price for this product. I compared elsewhere and this was the best price. It arrived in time.

Great photo quality, but poor value

2008-02-09
The photos printed on this paper look great, no doubt about it. They look just as good as something I would have done professionally for a standard 4x6. However, the amount of toner in these cartridges doesn't appear to be anywhere near what they are promising. I got the printer for Christmas (it comes with a cartridge), along with this ink/paper replacement pack. I have printed exactly 102 photos, and have gone through both the starter ink cartridge that came with the printer, as well as the replacement ink cartridge. Now I am left with about fifty pieces of paper and no way to print on them. I am not printing anything unusual (just a bunch of photos of our kids), nor were the photos taken at a very high resolution (5M - not sure if that matters).

So, even if I disregard the first printer cartidge (I agree with another reviewer that the one coming with the printer doesn't seem to have much toner in it), the cost of printing each photo comes to about $0.38/each, and that doesn't include the cost of the printer itself! I love the convenience of being able to easily print photos at home, but it comes at a high price when you can get it done online or at a local retailer's for $0.12-.20/print. I guess that's why they can afford to charge so little for the printer.

Average value, average quality

2008-02-08
I won a PictureMate SNAP at a company Christmas party and my wife loves it. She loves being able to just put in the memory card and print the pictures she wants. The ink pack here is average value compared with the current prices of inks. Where this package shines is including the paper and the ink in one package. There should be enough ink to print all the paper included with the package. Not sure if this is true yet. Only halfway through the pack.