Sony DPP-FP85 Photo Printer

By: Sandra Prior
Submitted: 2008-11-10 13:25:32
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The Sony DPP-FPSs is even more compact than any other photo printer, although it doesn't feature a disc-burner or the option of running on batteries. This hardly seems important when you taking into account that we're talking about HDMI output here. Everything is always better on the big screen, even that shot of you tea-bagging grandma's boy in COD4.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to set it up; the print cartridge slots into the side, the input-slash-output tray clips into the front and it comes with a 40 sheet paper pack.

You don't also need to be a professional photographer to produce quality prints. Working off the 2.5" full-color LCD screen, with the handy can fix the exposure, remove red-eye, correct the focus - and do your Estee Lauder-obsessed girlfriend a favor and use the ‘skin-smoothing’ function to leave her complexion as creamy as Hally Berry's bottom. There is also a zoom function and the giant' Print' bobble just yells, ‘Ooh - what does this button do?’

Sony claim that the prints take 45 seconds (the Epson did it in 37), and the direct card slot takes memory stick STD/DUO, SD, xD and CF, and can read JPEG, TIFF and BMP.

A quick time test reveals that 45 seconds is pretty accurate - although the first print was a little wonky. They always are. Okay, it would have helped if we had the paper in the right way. What was annoying is the nails-scratching-across-a-chalkboard sound that first print came out. It only lasted a moment or two, though. This particular printer belongs to the group that suck a sheet into the reel, and then prints each of the four colors separately. The second was top notch. The DPP-FP85 is also Vista-compatible.

Truly ingenious are the more creative options. You can print out cutesy calendars, a set of ID photos, super-impose images and make birthday cards; there are some scrap-booking ideas for the limp-wristed... it's pretty clever. Still, if you don't take a lot of photos, it may be economical for you to simply take your prints to the Foto First around the corner.

Yes, there are cheaper photo printers out there. But the DPP-FP85 is not rickety and doesn't have that cheap plastic feel. It's pure quality.

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