If you want to print glossy photos from your digital camera but don't want to stump up £799 for the Epson Stylus Photo 2000P (or simply don't want Super A3 prints), don't despair. The Sony UP-DP10 costs half the price and yet offers the same, if not better, print quality. The downside is that you can only print your photos at photo size - around 6x4in.

For something that produces such small prints, the UP-DP10 is surprisingly large but it can be stood on its side to reduce its desktop footprint.

Paper is loaded into a feeder at the front and the print ribbon goes in a slot on the top. The UP-DP10 has a ribbon because it is a dye-sublimation printer and it works by melting solid ink on to the page to form an image. It's not a particularly cheap way to print but it does produce smoothly shaded images that are light-fast and, if you select the appropriate option, glossy.

Installing the UP-DP10 is easy enough, thanks to the USB connection, but the software CDRom doesn't auto run. As the manual makes no mention of the bundled software, you'll need to figure out where it is and install it yourself, although Sony says it is going to include additional instructions.

If you're happy to resize images to fit the paper, you can print from any application. The bundled software will handle this for you, as well as catering for lots of other image-editing tasks. Prints take a couple of minutes to make and cost about 62p each.

Contact Sony 08705 424424, www.sony-cp.com