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13 April 2011
Epson PictureMate Ink Cartridge
1 of 1 found this helpful Epson's PictureMate photo printer is a neat little product. It prints glossy 3 x 5 inch prints that rival what you'll get from your drugstore's photo service. It uses only a proprietary ink cartridge and an Epson-only print paper trimmed to 3 x 5 inch size. The usual way to buy an ink cartridge is in an Epson combo package (widely at $26) with contains one cartridge and a packet of 100 print sheets. The main problem is that the ink cartridge quite often runs out before all 100 sheets are used up. I don't recall in the three or four cartridges that I've owned and used up whether any of them held up for 100 prints. So you wind up after a few years with lots of unused print paper (probably going out of date) and looking for only the Epson ink cartridges for sale. The problem is there aren't often these Epson T557 cartridges for sale which are not in the Epson combo pack with the 100 sheets of print paper. So far, Epson has not produced a longer lasting cartridge for the PictureMate. If you own the printer and have lots of print paper, you'll probably buy any T557 cartridge if it is under $15, still sealed in its plastic bag, and the expiration date isn't older than 5 years.