DPP-EX5 Digital Photo Printer

Would like to return

I found the sony digital cam photo printer online by accident while holiday shopping, read the reviews and decided to make the purchase. The product is a good value, cost wise, and is so easy to operate and the pictures are superb! I've only used the product twice- just recieved it 5 days ago and I haven't hooked it up to my pc yet (but that wasn't the point of my purchase anyway because I have an inkjet photo printer and printing software) but have used it on my home tv and the software program is just great- right from the TV I view all prints, can add text to the print, change the print to B&W, adjust tint, brightness etc and print however many prints of each photo I want. I even printed out an index photo of all the pics on my memory stick- awesome. The picture quality is so much better than inkjet prints and you can't tell the difference between these and professionally printed photos. The quality is remarkable. I highly recommend this product to both experienced and inexperienced digital camera users- it's great to have a device like this on hand to print pictures out immediately to share with others (modern similarity to poloroid cams in that you're able to share immediately right from your home TV or others- did I Say how easily PORTABLE this is-but SO MUCH MORE) The reviews here helped me so I'm hoping I can help someone else in making a decision.

I have been using the ofoto.com for a long time. I was really hesitant to try out the dye-sub or ink-jets printer for the only reason that there is no point to leave the online printing service other than you get the pictures in 2 hours instead of 2 days by mail. So finally I gave in and decided to go with the Sony DPP-EX5. The first disappointment came fast, during the setup: NONE of the advanced buttons (effects, touch-up, preview, etc.) works if you do not use the memory stick. What a bummer! The printer has a video-out jack, which is also completely useless without the stick, unless you like to stare at the words "PC MODE" on the screen all the time. I don't use the stick, since my camera is not Sony, so 50% of the justification to use this printer was gone in an instant. On to the prints quality: not even close! I use the FUJI Finepix 4900 camera, from which on a normal resolution (at 4.3 Mpixels) ofoto.com makes perfect prints. The prints from the Sony printer were still better then some of my friends' prints who use conventional cameras, but no match for the online service. The colors were almost too vivid, red was so bright, that it looked like an ink jet printed Santa cartoon, not a photo. The face coloring was off. Overall the colors are too bright and a softness of a photo image is gone. Price is somewhat cheaper then online service (by my estimates it is 30c per picture as compared to 50 cents for online print shop), but it is not a big difference to make me give up the quality in lieu of saving time waiting for the pictures to arrive by mail. I am staying with online print shop for now.

Its printing quality is as good as those kiosk from the department store. I bought it pre-owned and in a great condition, with no manual (I still do not know how to use all the way) I didn't know prior to acquiring this product that it only takes sony printing sheets and that they are so difficult to find and expensive to buy. Its printing quality deserves an A+

Had this for many years Still works like a charm Great Photo Printer!!