Sony announces DPP-FP97 and DPP-FP67 photo printers

Not content with just showing off new TVs, home theater systems, Blu-ray players, and cameras, Sony also unveiled at PMA two new photo printers for giving your digital memories a more tangible existence. The $120 DPP-FP67 and $200 DPP-FP97 create 4 x 6 prints in 45 and 67 seconds, respectively. Additionally, the FP97 (above and to the right) also sports HDMI out and a 3.5-inch LCD. No fancy Bluetooth connectivity like Dell's Wasabi, unfortunately, but the pair does support a variety of cards including SD, SDHC, MMC, xD and of course, Memory Stick. Look for these to help you finish that picture album when they hit retail channels sometime in May.

[Triscuit Posted Mar 3rd 2009 1:47AM]

Ross, go to bed! Yeesh. Unless you're overseas. Ah crap, now I might look foolish.... Oh well!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 1:58AM]

Damn, just bought an DPP-FP65!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 2:11AM]

Great to see Sony following Kodak. Unfortunately, people are not using photo printers anymore. Kodak figured this out a few years ago and shifted to all-in-one printers.

Poor Sony. Another product to add to their list of money losers.

[Willen Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:53AM]

I guess the guy wanting to print pictures of his kid that bought three 120-print Sony paper/dye packs yesterday didn't get the email. And neither did I, since I sold them to him instead of Kodak paper and inks.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 3rd 2009 5:19AM]

actually i would buy one of these...small footprint and moms and grandmas always love a good photo.

[insidethemachin3 Posted Mar 3rd 2009 7:35PM]

Sony following Kodak? wha?... perhaps you need to review the history of personal printing and dye sub sir

First of all... Sony is one of the biggest names in digital imaging, including photo printing supplies and equipment globally... professsional and consumer... rip open your nikon camera to find sony parts inside... dismantle those nifty self-print photo kiosks you see in malls and drugs stores everywhere to find sony parts doing the work... look to small scale pre-press and digital printing tabletop solutions and again Sony has significant market share... look at the standard equipment used for government identifications/passport etc... Sony wins again...

Sony had consumer Dye sublimation around 2000-2001(SV55 or the EX5 maybe), Kodak started pumping it out around 2001-2002 en masse... so to say they followed Kodak with the dye sub printer... not so much.

As far as Sony jumping on a sinking ship... well the reason new models get released consistently is that people buy them consistently... I know it may sound like a wild notion upon first glance... a well designed, useful and popular product gets refaced? Go figure huh?

[Amun Posted Mar 3rd 2009 2:33AM]

Wait, the $120 model prints *faster*?

[Willen Posted Mar 3rd 2009 4:46AM]

If you've read the press release, it's obvious that Ross made a typo.

[sebbles Posted Mar 3rd 2009 3:06AM]

I am assuming that this is a dye-sublimation printer. I have a Canon dye-sub and the results are bretter than any ink-jet printer. I gave one as a gift this past Christmas and it went over quite well. It's one thing to be able to look at your photos on the screen or a digital photo frame, but it is kind of neat to be able to print them out and put them in an album or frame them.

Digital makes things so easy to forget how nice it can be to sit around and look at an actual photo album once in a while.