With a range of connection options and a simple design, producing 6x4 photos from Sony's DPP-FP90 dye-sublimation printer is an easy task.

Compact Flash, SD and Memory Stick Pro slots enable you to plug in your cameraís storage format directly, while Pictbridge support allows you to print from your digicam. You can also attach a USB storage device or even your PC.

Once you've hooked up the source, photos will appear on the impressive 3.6in display for viewing and editing before you print. If you're not comfortable manually adjusting settings such as saturation, brightness or red-eye compensation, you'll find an auto touch-up control that'll do it for you.

In addition to editing, you can apply a range of filters, superimpose text, create calendars or ID photos, and select from a range of layouts to create index cards of your prints.

When you're ready to go, a completed photo can be ready in less than 45 seconds, which is an impressive speed for a printer of this kind. Results are excellent and you'd be hard pushed to tell them apart from those you'd expect to see from a professional printing service.

In terms of the features and performance, there's very little the DPP-FP90 is missing, but as is often the case in this sort of situation, there's a price premium. Since you don't get any paper or ink supplied with the printer, you'll need to buy them separately, which is a shame, and you can expect to pay around £15 for a 40-print pack that includes both paper and ink.

Putting the initial expense of buying the printer aside, this works out at around 37p per print, which is quite a price hike over the huge variety of online and high street stores that offer the service for as low as 10p per photo.