As if it weren’t enough that we have useless features on our point-and-shoots, now we have to have them on our printers as well. First of all, the idea of taking my photos, editing and adjusting them, doing red-eye reduction and so on in-camera, then printing them out on the spot is so ridiculous that I can’t even convince myself that it’s done by anyone on this green Earth. A screen on the printer seems so superfluous a feature, and such an expensive one, that I can’t believe it is being touted as a positive. Enjoy slideshows on your printer! It sounds like a fake ad. Nevertheless, these crimes against nature will be available from Sony in April. Okay, I guess other printers have screens too. My scorn expands easily to encompass them as well.
The abominations only print 4×6″, which precludes them from usefulness altogether; consider how often you’ll need to print a 4×6″ photo right here and now, no matter what, and now consider how often you see a Walgreens or Bartell’s, where you can get a hundred photos printed in 15 minutes at superior quality for 15 cents each. For comparison, the white printer above will cost $150 and the black one $200. I’m sorry to come down so hard on these devices, which I’m sure are very effective at what they do, but they really seem like the most useless stay-in-a-box-forever type doodads I’ve seen in a while.
Out class and excellent portable printer….
Been using a Sony printer for years to print out 4×6 photos from home.
For three years in Africa (where I would give copies of the pictures I took to locals in them) and now in India. Not a Walgreens in the neighborhood.
So yes, there is someone on this “green earth” for whom these printers are handy and many many happy recipients of the high quality much hardier than ink jet printed photos.
HELLO!?! I print pictures on site at local sporting events. I sell the pictures to parents attending these events. There are MANY people who will find these printers ARE just what we have been asking for.
Yup, YOU haven’t found a use for them. Many of us have. They are perfect for selling pics at sporting events, as stated by Alan. Think things through. The world does not end just outside of your arm stretch.