A couple of new digital photo printers from Olympus that use dye-sublimation rather than inkjet technology. How it works is a bit complicated, but basically dye-sublimation makes it possible for colors to more fully permeate photo paper than they can with an inkjet printer. Consequently, photographs printed this way usually look a lot better than those printed using an inkjet printer, so dye-sublimation printers are usually what professional photo labs use to make prints of digital photos. Anyway, the new Olympus P-10 (pictured at right) can print out a 4-by 6-inch photo in 45 seconds, and uses the new PictBridge standard for connecting digital cameras directly to printers without needing a PC. The Olympus P-440 can make prints up to 8- by 10-inch in size, and print directly from XD-Picture Cards, Memory Stick, or Compact Flash memory cards, and has a small 1.8-inch screen for previewing photos.
