Olympus Announces Multi-Function Home Entertainment Photo Printer
MELVILLE, N.Y., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus America Inc., Digital & Imaging Systems Group, the leader of film and filmless photography, today announced the Olympus P-330 Instant Home Photo Printer, for filmless photo viewing and printing through a TV set, directly from a camera, or from a computer. Easy to use, the P-330 directly reads SmartMedia cards thus avoiding cables and printing aggravation. Consumers can easily create prints and reprints in about 2 minutes at home or at the office, without taking a trip to a photo store.
The P-330 true photo dye-sublimation printer has 5 major uses:
- It is an instant home entertainment printer. It enables viewing images on the TV for cropping and printing up to 30 copies of photos in four sizes of up to 16 different images at once.
- It is also a video frame grabber/printer. Printing frames from any camcorder or VHS/DVD video signal, it can print any image displayed on a TV monitor.
- It is a dedicated photo printer connecting to virtually all common computers (Windows and Macintosh). The P-330 can print any computer generated image, including downloads from the Internet and images edited on a computer.
- It is a SmartMedia card reader, which allows all SmartMedia memory cards from Olympus (or other digital cameras) to be inserted directly into the printer for quick and easy downloading of images via the parallel port (Windows only).
- It is a dedicated printer for Olympus filmless digital cameras, direct printing images from the camera or removable cards.
The P-330 includes the printer and photo paper pack. It is available for both Macintosh or PC computers immediately and is expected to sell for .
