Sony DPP-FP95 Picture Station Digital Photo Printer with 3.6-Inch LCD Tilt-Adjustable Display

I used to own a Hi-Touch Imaging (HiTi) 640PS, which was as good as this in the printing department but lacked in software - but the hiti's UI in the standalone department was especially atrocious, as it would be fussy in the pictures it detected on the flash-based cards, and the final straw came when it couldn't read any of the modern cards anymore. So I was prompted to purchase this one.The quality of this printer is good. It is based on dye-sublimation technology and that is important. There are cheaper inkjet-based printers for photos on the market - but almost always you can tell it comes from an inkjet through the dotting that doesn't really blend together, or that that the prints are in danger of smearing just from the sweat of a hand, or the ink heads dry out with several weeks/months of nonuse.Dye-subs have none of those issues and I like it that the photo print packs come with the cartridges needed to print, no extra ink needed. It even prints a clear coat to protect the photo and give it that glossy look. Quality-wise, it's hard to distinguish copies from this machine versus the store.The screen is also nice and big which makes it easier to handle. I think the UI is rather intuitive and it supposedly handles the BIONZ information from Sony Cameras as to autoretouch the images for you. Although I haven't personally seen any noticeable difference between pictures from my Sony camera or my Panasonic when printed on this.It makes 4x6 prints. You can get a print pack of 120 for around $30. This was cheaper than my previous Hi-touch.It reads the modern cards as well. If I had a complaint, it was that the card reader wasn't modular, meaning that when new cards (of much higher capacity or just plain different design) inevitably come out - this printer will be outdated without a way to upgrade it. Like my hiti.I don't currently see any residential printer on the market with modular card readers though. The ones in the store, the kiosks, look and are reasonably modular. They don't replace the machines, just take out the old card readers and install new ones -- perhaps with a software upgrade to the machine. Oh well, it's a manufacturer-impose limitation of these machines, which you will have to keep in mind.All in all, one purchase I'm very happy with.

Just beware, printer does NOT come with paper or ribbon. Don't be surprised when you open the box and find you have to make another trip to the store before you can start printing. Bad move, Sony. Shame on you!!!

I had seen some test prints from this printer and thought the colors looked beautiful, so I bought one. Boy was I disappointed. While the colors were bright and vivid, much more so than I've seen with Costco prints, the photos were way oversaturated, making everything look fake. I played with the settings and was able to improve it somewhat, there's a setting called autofine print5 which was turned on (set to 'photo'). I turned it off and the pictures looked much better, but they still paled in comparison to what I could get with the cheapest Costco print. I don't know if it's the printer's fault or the software. I think with the dye sublimation technology, the possibility of getting prints of equal or better quality than store bought prints is there, but for whatever reason it just can't do it yet.I think slowly the medium by which people view photos is switching to digital only, so the need for high quality prints to put in photo albums is diminishing. I bought this printer hoping to get something near the quality that I can get in the store. That way I could play with the brightness and colors and get instant feedback. However, this printer just couldn't do it. Quite disappointing.One last thing, you can't print directly from a Mac with this printer. This seems preposterous to me, that in this day and age people are making printers that are not Mac compatible. It's simple enough to transfer photos to a memory card, but still, why should I have to do that in 2008?

Seriously - my tounge is really sore now. I gotta get it back in shape in time for Talk Like A Pirate Day on Sept 19 (which is a Saturday, so I can't wear my pirate costume to work that day. Well, I could, but nobody ELSE would be there and what's the point of costuming if you don't show it off? And when the traveling Holloween costume store reopens in August (and I saw Holloween/Fall decorations at the store this morning - REALLY! THIS WHOLE SHOPPING HOLIDAY-SEASON ACCELERATION HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND!), I can buy more accessories for it. Pirates gotta accessorrrrrrrrize properly.And if I couldn't be a pirate, than what would be the point of taking pictures and printing them on this ultra-super-dooper-wonderful-speedy picture printer. Does everything I need and then some. Just a really great specialty purpose printer. Even for non-pirates, it's a great little printer.

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The only limitation I found with this printer is that if you want to have a larger copy of your picture you will have to take elsewhere.Otherwise, if you are happy with the top size printing of this machine then this will be excellent for you. The quality of the prited photograph is great.Sergio Sarita