Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great little printer!
Comment: I bought this printer in January 2004 with a Sony Digital camera. I was amazed at the color and quality of the prints that come out of this little printer. I started out using the printer connected to a TV. Very easy to set up (connect one cable, select video on the TV) and start using. Since then I've purchased a USB cable and connected it to my PC. Connecting it to the PC (running XP Pro) was a snap - not as fast as connecting to a TV, but not difficult using the User's Manual. You do have to install printer drivers, but the installation wizard was trouble free. The printer paper packs are not cheap, but I love being able to print what I want, when I want!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best And Affordable Dye-Sub Printer
Comment: This printer is awsome, its only 200 bucks, which is a good price for a dye-sublimation printer. This baby prints lab quality prints im telling you. My only wish is that Sony would make a version that can print up to 5x7, that would be so great. Even if you dont have a computer, with this you can hook it right up to your tv and use the effects and print. It can print 3x5, 4x6, and little mini stickers which are cool. The stickers are just like the ones you can make out those little booths that charge like 4 dollars. You can make your own much cheaper with this, its awsome!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Deal for the Money Invested!
Comment: I just purchased the DPP-EX5 printer and I'm very pleased with the quality of pictures it prints. It's size it's quite portable and is very user friendly, just wasted one sheet while hooking it up on a PC. Like other opinions, I think the quality of the picture taken will determine how good the print will be. I suggest for all those interested, get a good digital camera, perhaps a Sony and then just do your shots and print them, you will be more than satisfied with this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: expensive prints
Comment: This printer prints good pictures for a home printer but does not compare to Kodak processing. The pictures are more grainy and have more of a yellow cast, and are much lighter. If you compare a picture printed from this printer and the same one printed from Kodak you can see the big difference. Also my printer did not print the textured finish like the manual says so I called Sony to find that my printer was defective?? For the price and for home quality it is O.K but I returned mine!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Exetremely nice output if you can load the color profile
Comment: I am very pleased with the photos from this printer. Its as if I had them printed by the photo center. I don't like the cost per print, and the lack of the better price per print 75 packs in my local stores.
I don't have a Sony camera and print from my computer. The first 25 prints were really bad even with all the tweaking I attempted in Photoshop. I'm pretty new to digital photography and was using Photoshop at work. A fellow co-worker pointed out that I needed to load the ICC Profile that came with the printer and map the profile in the mode setting. Now if I do auto levels and just print, they look spectacular.
I hope Sony sells the printer/paper packs for a while since the printer will be useless the day they stop manufacturing them.
Summary: Great little printer!
Comment: I bought this printer in January 2004 with a Sony Digital camera. I was amazed at the color and quality of the prints that come out of this little printer. I started out using the printer connected to a TV. Very easy to set up (connect one cable, select video on the TV) and start using. Since then I've purchased a USB cable and connected it to my PC. Connecting it to the PC (running XP Pro) was a snap - not as fast as connecting to a TV, but not difficult using the User's Manual. You do have to install printer drivers, but the installation wizard was trouble free. The printer paper packs are not cheap, but I love being able to print what I want, when I want!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best And Affordable Dye-Sub Printer
Comment: This printer is awsome, its only 200 bucks, which is a good price for a dye-sublimation printer. This baby prints lab quality prints im telling you. My only wish is that Sony would make a version that can print up to 5x7, that would be so great. Even if you dont have a computer, with this you can hook it right up to your tv and use the effects and print. It can print 3x5, 4x6, and little mini stickers which are cool. The stickers are just like the ones you can make out those little booths that charge like 4 dollars. You can make your own much cheaper with this, its awsome!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Deal for the Money Invested!
Comment: I just purchased the DPP-EX5 printer and I'm very pleased with the quality of pictures it prints. It's size it's quite portable and is very user friendly, just wasted one sheet while hooking it up on a PC. Like other opinions, I think the quality of the picture taken will determine how good the print will be. I suggest for all those interested, get a good digital camera, perhaps a Sony and then just do your shots and print them, you will be more than satisfied with this printer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: expensive prints
Comment: This printer prints good pictures for a home printer but does not compare to Kodak processing. The pictures are more grainy and have more of a yellow cast, and are much lighter. If you compare a picture printed from this printer and the same one printed from Kodak you can see the big difference. Also my printer did not print the textured finish like the manual says so I called Sony to find that my printer was defective?? For the price and for home quality it is O.K but I returned mine!!
Prints are costly!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Exetremely nice output if you can load the color profile
Comment: I am very pleased with the photos from this printer. Its as if I had them printed by the photo center. I don't like the cost per print, and the lack of the better price per print 75 packs in my local stores.
I don't have a Sony camera and print from my computer. The first 25 prints were really bad even with all the tweaking I attempted in Photoshop. I'm pretty new to digital photography and was using Photoshop at work. A fellow co-worker pointed out that I needed to load the ICC Profile that came with the printer and map the profile in the mode setting. Now if I do auto levels and just print, they look spectacular.
I hope Sony sells the printer/paper packs for a while since the printer will be useless the day they stop manufacturing them.
Overall my family is amazed at the photos and how I can print off a picture for them in a few short minutes after we take them.