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Print Quality (3.00)
Users can’t specify what print quality to use; all prints are made at a fixed resolution of 300 x 300 dpi.
Internal Editing (7.50)
The Sony Picture Station FP90 has an auto touch-up button on it that automatically corrects exposure, attempts to fix focus, and tries to eliminate red-eye. The printer’s LCD screen shows before and after images, but not next to each other. Users must scroll back and forth to see them both, making it a little more difficult to see the difference. All of the printer’s editing processes take at least a few seconds. Most of the internal editing is done through the Menu button. Pictures can be rotated, adjusted, and changed with color effects. Adjust allows the user to change settings for brightness, tint (red to green), saturation, and sharpness. There is a cross-filter highlight feature that adds fake-looking sparkle to highlights like shiny teeth and bright candles. A partial color filter casts a circular area of color in the center and reduces the rest of the image to black-and-white. Black-and-white pictures can also be printed with the monochrome option in the menu. Sepia is also available. A Paint option looks more like a sketched coloring book, and the fisheye effect adds some odd distortion. In the Creative Print portion of the menu, users can superimpose messages onto prints. There aren’t many messages; most of them are fairly typical too (eg. "Happy Birthday"). Overall, though, the Sony FP90 has a lot of editing effects even for a compact photo printer.
Dedicated B&W Settings / Effects (7.50)
Within the color effects portion of the menu, users can select the monochrome or sepia option. Users can see a preview of the black-and-white image before printing it.
Media Types (4.00)
This printer doesn’t have much variety in its compatible media. It can accept only Sony 4x6-inch photo postcard paper, which Sony sells in packs of 40, 80, and 120 sheets with ink cartridges. The paper is durable, untearable, has snap-off edges, and postcard printing on the back. This seems to be a common feature with many compact photo printers.
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