Sony DPPEX50 Digital Photo Printer

Reviewed by: robertbossio

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Strengths: Great output

Weaknesses: Cheaper to get printout from the pharmacy, no Mac support at all.

Overall Evaluation: This is a great toy to have when you have the family over and want to printout a picture right away. The output is as good as getting it done at a local pharmacy. But, it comes at a price. When you consider that you can only get the picture paper (25 sheets) with an ink cartridge at $18 with taxes (I guess the ink cartridge only has enouph print "stuff" - ink and glossy - to print the 25 sheets that comes in the bundle), you're paying about 72 cents per print. You can go to your local pharmacy and get digital picture printouts for about 35 cents per print, on average. That makes printing your pictures at home ALLOT more expensive. Bottom line, if you can wait to take your digital media to a pharmacy, save your money. On the other hand, if you want to be able to print that one picture you really want to give to your visiting aunt, this is a great way to do it. The picture quality far exceeds standard ink-jet output, even with photo paper. Also, if you're a Mac user, forget about using this printer with your PC. There's no support that I can find. But, it has slots for all the major memory media types (flash, SD/MMC, Memory Stick) so you don't even need to connect it to a PC (although it would be nice!).