A digital frame that doubles as a photo printer
October 27th, 2009 Posted in General, Industry News 
Sony’s latest gadget makes digital and physical photo-sharing easy with a digital frame that doubles as a photo printer.
Sony’s DPP-F700 S-Frame sports a 7-inch, 16-by-10 ratio LCD display with a resolution of 800 x 400 pixels. The integrated printer sits unobtrusively behind the screen enabling users to create professional quality (300×300dpi) photo prints in 45 seconds flat.
Images can be edited before printing using the included photo-editing software. Those with a creative edge can also add fancy borders, make their own photo-calendars, print out ID photos or create photo-collages with multiple images.
The device can store up to 2,000 photos on the frame’s one gigabyte of on-board memory.
Sony’s digital frame-printer is not the first to be released on the market. US-based electronics company SmartParts was the first to release a digital frame with an in-built printer in February 2008.
Japanese electronics maker Epson also recently launched a photo-frame-printer in Japan called the Colorio Me E-800 postcard printer (the device comes with a price tag of about $600). The Colorio is shipped with a wireless keyboard and is tailored to the Japanese market — where it is customary to send friends and family printed postcards featuring images of your family to mark the coming of the New Year on January 1.
Sony’s DPP-F700 S-Frame will be available in the US in January for $200.
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