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Wedding Memories Will Last a Lifetime with the Portable, Durable PictureMate Charm

LONG BEACH, Calif., Nov. 19, 2009 – Epson’s award-winning PictureMate® Charm will be featured tomorrow on a destination wedding-themed episode of “The Martha Stewart Show.” With superior photo quality, fast print speeds, and a compact design, the portable PictureMate Charm is the ideal solution for printing and sharing cherished memories on the wedding day or long after the big event.

While showcasing PictureMate Charm as an ideal photo printer for capturing wedding day memories during the previously-taped episode, daytime host Martha Stewart raved, “This is a wonderful printer.” Editorial director of Martha Stewart Weddings, Darcy Miller, added, “It’s a great gift for a bride.”

PictureMate Charm delivers beautiful, better-than-lab-quality glossy or matte 4”x6” prints that are smudge, scratch, water, and fade resistant, lasting up to four times longer than traditional, film-processed photos1. Featuring a 2.5” LCD screen, consumers can view and print photos, as well as remove red eye and select popular photo layouts and color tones, with or without a computer. In addition, PictureMate Charm prints from all popular memory cards with built-in card slots2, and prints wirelessly from PDAs and digital camera cell phones with an optional Bluetooth® adapter3.

“Many of today’s wedding photographers are providing digital files with their photo packages. This is where Epson’s PictureMate Charm becomes a bride’s best friend – allowing her to use the photographer’s digital files to quickly print 4”x6” photos in as fast as 37 seconds4 and instantly share cherished wedding and honeymoon moments with family and friends. There’s no need to wait for photo labs or kiosks, brides can save time and money with affordable and convenient PictureMate Print Packs – photo cartridge and paper included,” said Stacey Tieu, associate product manager, Consumer Ink Jets, Epson America Inc. “We’re very excited that PictureMate Charm is featured on ‘The Martha Stewart Show.’ Brides nationwide can now see how easy it is to print stunning photos with true-to-life skin tones and incredible detail at home or on-the-go.”

The audience for tomorrow’s show will be filled with brides who will each receive a new PictureMate Charm to print prized wedding photos that can be treasured for a lifetime. PictureMate Charm is also currently available for an estimated street price of $149.99 through a variety of online retail stores and Epson’s retail site, www.epsonstore.com. For more information, please see the PictureMate Charm fact sheet or visit www.Epson.com.

About Epson America Inc.
Epson is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of digital imaging products. The company’s extensive range of printers, scanners, 3LCD projectors, point-of-sale technology and crystal display devices are renowned for their innovation, functionality and energy efficiency. Led by Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the Epson Group employs more than 70,000 people in 108 companies around the world. Epson America, Inc., headquartered in Long Beach, CA, is the U.S. affiliate of Seiko Epson Corporation. Seiko Epson is committed to its ongoing contributions to the global environment and for the second year in a row is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, an indicator for leading companies in economic, environmental and social criteria.

Want to improve the quality of your pictures on your Epson printer? Try these quick tips for better printing.

• Horizontal Lines? Run your printer’s Nozzle Check. You can find it on the maintenance tab in “printing preferences”
• Nozzle check indicating clogged nozzles? Run the Head Cleaning utility also found in “printer preferences”. You may have to run this utility up to 5 times even with genuine Epson ink cartridges
• Getting Vertical lines in your printout? Run the Epson Print Head Alignment function.
• Not printing in color? Check to make sure your printer is not set to print in “black only”, “draft”, or “text” modes.
• Missing one color? Run your Epson Utility to check the ink levels of your color ink cartridges. If color cartridges show sufficient ink levels, run the nozzle check utility to see if all colors are printing correctly.
• Paper – You may think that “paper is paper”. Wrong! You will achieve your highest quality prints on high quality paper.

In a nutshell, the Epson utilities are your friend. Get to know your way around the nozzle check function of your Epson printer. Your Epson printer is at it’s best when the nozzle check shows no gaps or missing lines.