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Controls/Buttons/Dials (8.00)
The Panasonic PX20 has a very simple control panel, with just six buttons. Most of these sit in the well below the display screen, which, when folded down, hides all them. The power button sits along the left edge of printer, outside this well. A small LED sits above the button to indicate when its on or off. A red light shines when the unit is plugged in and off, while a green button shines when the unit is on.
The Display and Menu buttons sit to the far left of the panel. The Display button switches the view from thumbnails to single image display, and the Menu brings up the printer’s menu options. These button also zoom out and in, respectively, allowing for image trimming. Dead center is the combination OK/Navigation button, with the four-way control surrounding the OK button, as in many printers and cameras. The Return button to the right allows the user to exit from the current menu screen to the previous one. The large white Print button sits at the far right and also serves as the Rotate button to realign the image’s orientation.
An additional remote control is included with the PX20; this is not featured with any other compact printers to date. It includes all the basic controls that the control panel features—Power, Print, OK and navigation buttons, Menu, Return, and Display—but it also features separate Trimming and Rotate buttons, as well as separate Slide Show and Search buttons. While the PX20 does have a large screen, it’s hard to imagine being far enough away to use the remote control and still be able to see the images.
Menus (6.50)
The PX20’s menu design is fairly rudimentary, with simple graphics, plain text, and an ugly turquoise background. The main screen displays the images on the SD card (if that’s installed). Pressing the Menu button brings up four main options. The choices are laid out well, with the menu design showing both the main options and the currently selected choice for that option.
Panasonic KX-PX20 Menus
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Simple Mode
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Slide Show
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Device Settings
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Date Format
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Language
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German, English, Spanish, French, and Japanese
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Sleep
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Off, 5 min., 10 min.
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Display by
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Date, File No.
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TV Aspect
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4:3, 16:9
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Cancel Printing
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To Normal Mode
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Normal Mode
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Printing Options
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Print Calendar
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Print Composite
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Print Index
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Print All Images
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Print DPOF
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Slide Show
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All Images
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Selected Images
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Slide Show Setting
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Interval (3, 5, 7, 10 secs.), Pattern (Normal, Pattern I, 2, 3, Random), Operation Guide (On, Off)
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Search
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Search by Date
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Cancel Search
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Select All/Clear
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Settings
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Print Settings
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Date, Borders, LUMIX date
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Image Adjustment--Effect
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Off, Warm Monochrome, Cool, Monochrome, Sepia, Warm, Cool, Soft Portrait, Embossed Heart, Oil Painting, Japanese Paper, Convex Sphere, Concave Sphere
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Image Adjustment-- Auto Mode
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Off, Auto, Soft Skin, Indoor, Vividness, Night Scenery,
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Image Adjustment-- Other Settings
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Density/Balance, Color Levels, White Balance (Auto, Off)
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Device Settings
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Defaults
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Cancel Printing
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To Simple Mode
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Size / Footprint (8.36)
Just by virtue of being of being a compact photo printer, the Panasonic PX20 gets a high score. These printers do indeed take up very little desk space, although it is more than advertised because the manufacturer’s specifications don’t take into account the paper cassette, which needs to be attached anytime the printer is operating. The PX20 scored about the same as the Sony FP90, which has the same size LCD screen, also a flip-up. The Canon CP730 scored higher than both of these similar-sized models because its LCD screen is recessed into the printer. This gives it a higher size score, but the LCD screen is much less usable.
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