Sony DPP-EX5 color problem

[Mitchell Regenbogen]

I just bought a Sony DPP-EX5 dye sub printer to use with my Sony DSC-717.
The problem is that all of the photos printed from my memory stick
directly to the printer are oversaturated, too red, and the result is
unnatural skin tones. The 717 is producing perfect shots -- they appear
fine on the screen and when printed on my lowly HP 5550 printer. Yet on
the DPP-EX5 they're unsatisfactory. I turned the "auto fine print" off.
When I lower the saturation control they're washed out. I'm about to
return this printer unless I can figure out the problem. I bought the
printer for the convenience of direct printing and I have no desire to sit
and minipulate every image just to get a basic, accurate print (which I
haven't been able to do anyway). Any help would be appreciated.

Mitch.

[ALG]

Mitchell Regenbogen <mreg@panix.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93B4ECB59B494mregpanixcom@166.84.1.69>...

> I just bought a Sony DPP-EX5 dye sub printer to use with my Sony DSC-717.
> The problem is that all of the photos printed from my memory stick
> directly to the printer are oversaturated, too red, and the result is
> unnatural skin tones. The 717 is producing perfect shots -- they appear
> fine on the screen and when printed on my lowly HP 5550 printer. Yet on
> the DPP-EX5 they're unsatisfactory. I turned the "auto fine print" off.
> When I lower the saturation control they're washed out. I'm about to
> return this printer unless I can figure out the problem. I bought the
> printer for the convenience of direct printing and I have no desire to sit
> and minipulate every image just to get a basic, accurate print (which I
> haven't been able to do anyway). Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Mitch.

I bought the same printer but taking it back. I had a photograph which
had some distant mountains that was was clearly visible (lightish
blue) in the picture.
When I printed with the sony they compeltely disapperaed. The printer
did not distinguish the mountains from the background sky.
I had the same image pinted at Meijers super store at .31 cents and
the mountains were clearly there. At the local circuit city the sale
person took my image and printed on the Kodak dyd sub printer (the
docking station one) and sure enough the mountains were there.
I have tried changing brightness, contrast, sharpness etc. on the sony
and tried (wasted about 25 paper) to convince myself that by doing
some editing I can make it work as the others, but no luck. There were
other pictures in my lot which produced inferior pictures than the one
I printed at Mejers.

Not sure if the roblem is replated to the printer driver (i downloaded
the latest from sony site) or the printer itself.
Alg

[Mitchell Regenbogen]

[email]g123kumar@hotmail.com[/email] (ALG) wrote in
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> Mitchell Regenbogen <mreg@panix.com> wrote in message
> news:<Xns93B4ECB59B494mregpanixcom@166.84.1.69>...

>> I just bought a Sony DPP-EX5 dye sub printer to use with my Sony
>> DSC-717. The problem is that all of the photos printed from my
>> memory stick directly to the printer are oversaturated, too red, and
>> the result is unnatural skin tones. The 717 is producing perfect
>> shots -- they appear fine on the screen and when printed on my lowly
>> HP 5550 printer. Yet on the DPP-EX5 they're unsatisfactory. I
>> turned the "auto fine print" off. When I lower the saturation
>> control they're washed out. I'm about to return this printer unless
>> I can figure out the problem. I bought the printer for the
>> convenience of direct printing and I have no desire to sit and
>> minipulate every image just to get a basic, accurate print (which I
>> haven't been able to do anyway). Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Mitch.

>
> I bought the same printer but taking it back. I had a photograph which
> had some distant mountains that was was clearly visible (lightish
> blue) in the picture.
> When I printed with the sony they compeltely disapperaed. The printer
> did not distinguish the mountains from the background sky.
> I had the same image pinted at Meijers super store at .31 cents and
> the mountains were clearly there. At the local circuit city the sale
> person took my image and printed on the Kodak dyd sub printer (the
> docking station one) and sure enough the mountains were there.
> I have tried changing brightness, contrast, sharpness etc. on the sony
> and tried (wasted about 25 paper) to convince myself that by doing
> some editing I can make it work as the others, but no luck. There were
> other pictures in my lot which produced inferior pictures than the one
> I printed at Mejers.
>
> Not sure if the roblem is replated to the printer driver (i downloaded
> the latest from sony site) or the printer itself.

Yep, I returned mine today. Since you had problems with the driver, and
I had problems with the internal image manipulation firmware, it looks
like the printer is bad all around.