Sony has today announced two new dye-sub photo printers, the DPP-SV77 and DPP-SV88. The SV77 is based on the sucessful 400dpi SV55 engine, however it adds 3.5" touch-sensitive LCD screen which allows you to select and manipulate your prints without a TV monitor. The SV88, also based on the SV55 engine is more revolutionary, it's designed to fit into a AV system rack (all controls are on the front) and adds a CD-R/RW drive which brings the capability to browse, print and archive all from one device. Plus you can view / print / archive directly from CD Mavica CD-R/RW discs (without finalizing!).

Phil: Both the SV77 and SV88 are interesting products, the latter more so because it opens up opportunities for none computer owning buyers to enter the digital photography world. The SV88 maintains its support for Memory Stick and other storage media (via PCMCIA) as well as direct support for 'packet reading' CD-R/RW discs. Thus the ability to access unfinalized / finalized discs directly from the CD Mavica range of digital cameras. Both the SV77 and SV88 can still be used as USB printers with PC's running Windows or Mac OS and can even be used as a card reader under Windows.

DISCLAIMER: Prices are not yet 100% confirmed, we will update this release when we get updated pricing info from Sony.

Sony DPP-SV77

Key Features

• Borderless 4x6" or Economical 3½x4" Print Sizes
• Direct Print from Memory Stick® or other flash media (w/optional PC Card adaptor)
• 3.2" DSTN color LCD monitor with Touch Panel functionality and Stylus
• 3.8 Megapixel High Resolution - 2466 x 1664 for 4x6" print
• Continuous Tone photo quality printing - 256 graduations for yellow, magenta, cyan create 16.7 million colors
• High Speed Printing - approximately 90 seconds for 4x6" print, 60 seconds for 3½x4" print
• Selectable Auto Fine Print function maximizes picture quality
• Photo Editing allows creative control of Zoom/Trim, Brightness, Color Depth, Sharpness
• Creative Print function for cards, calendars and other print creativity
• On screen Free-hand draw function with Stylus pen
• On-screen Text and Stamp function
• Print 1, 2, 4, or 9 Frames per Sheet, or Index Print
• USB port for operation with Windows and Mac PC
• Dedicated Memory Stick and PCMCIA card reader/writer function through USB port for Windows PC
  

Sony DPP-SV77 specifications

Sony DPP-SV88

Key Features

• Borderless 4x6" or Economical 3½x4" Print Sizes
• Direct Print from Memory Stick® , CD-R/RW or other flash media (w/optional PC Card adaptor)
• 8x4x24 speed CD-R/RW drive with File Management and Archive functions
• Copy digital image files from Flash Media cards to 12cm CD-R/RW discs
• 3.8 Megapixel High Resolution - 2466 x 1664 for 4x6" print
• Continuous Tone photo quality printing - 256 graduations for yellow, magenta, cyan create 16.7 million colors
• High Speed Printing - approximately 90 seconds for 4x6" print, 60 seconds for 3½x4" print
• Selectable Auto Fine Print function maximizes picture quality
• Photo Editing allows creative control of Zoom/Trim, Brightness, Color Depth, SharpnessCreative Print function for cards, calendars and other print creativity
• On-screen Text and Stamp function
• Print 1, 2, 4, or 9 Frames per Sheet, or Index Print
• USB port for operation with Windows and Mac PC
• Dedicated Memory Stick and PCMCIA card reader/writer function through USB port for Windows PC

Sony DPP-SV88 specifications