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Amazed. Right out of the box, I just followed the instructions, printed directly from my camera and presto. That is the only word to describe how I feel about this printer. It is so simple to use. A perfect picture. This is the best $50.00 I have ever spent here at Amazon.Fred
The paper shuttles back and forth while the layers of ink and protective coating is applied to the paper. You select your photo from the small display built in to the printer and press the print button. I have fallen in love four times in my life. That's it. (10)Which brings me to why I've fallen in love. Want the colors to "POP". Will it last forever. Choose the "vivid" selection and the color saturation is amped up a bit.
Photoshop is for being creative. The paper is widely available from all the big box digital camera retailers and from specialty camera shops.(4)It is cost effective - take 2. You can even adjust contrast and color settings if you're the fussy sort. In the first three steps, different color inks are deposited on top of each other to create all the other colors of the spectrum. The printer uses a process called dye sublimation in which a solid ink that is spread on a thin plastic sheet is transferred to the photo paper in a four step process. I have actually bought paper and ink in a 108 print box from Best Buy that was on sale for about $14. If the printer had to handle more sizes of prints, the printer, paper and ink would be more expensive.(5)The pictures are durable and smudge proof. If you want to share the moments of your life, then get one of these and start sharing.As I'm writing this, Canon has come out with a newer model with some additional features over the Selphy CP760.
The paper loads in a tray that is inserted into the front of the printer. Before you leave the party, picnic, gathering, or meeting, you can share a photo that can be stuck to the fridge, posted on the board, or stuck in the briefcase. Unlike inkjet printers, you don't waste ink cleaning nozzles or have ruined pictures because of a clogged inkjet. No. No laptop or PC needed.(3)It is cost effective - take 1.
However, the upside is that you only have to carry only one type of ink cartridge and one type of paper. If you want or need your photos to be perfect reproductions of reality, then this is the wrong printer for you. If you want larger or smaller prints, then this is not the printer for you. I ended up buying four more to give to my friends and family. The prints come in only one size, 4x6.
It's stupid. Needless to say, I bought eight boxes. It is intended to print pictures that you can enjoy and share immediately. The photos look every bit as good as the "60 million by 24 million dots per blah, blah, blah of the ink jet printers. Automatically fixed. The straighter the path, the more reliable.
To me, photos are meant to share memories. The first was a heartbreaker in college. (BTW, don't let the 300dpi resolution put you off. This brought the cost down to about 12¢ a print. With gas at $3 a gallon, you have to factor that in. Frankly, this printer is not for archival purposes.
The more convoluted the path, the more complicated the mechanism has to be and the less reliable the printer becomes. At the normal price, prints come out to about 30¢a print. Canon has been making quality photo equipment for generations and this printer is no exception. (Actually, the print is really 100mm by 148mm. I can store two of these printers - with all power cables and a box of paper - in a large laptop computer case. In my experience, the more convoluted the path, the greater the probability that the paper will jam in the machine because of a tolerance or timing problem.
In the last step, a clear coating is applied that protects the print from minor scratches and fingerprints. Select sepia tone. There is a limited amount of adjustability built right into the printer. Let me count the ways.(1)It does what it says: it prints beautiful color photos in about a minute. So far, in over four hundred prints printed on two of these printers, I have not had a single jam or lost a photo because of the printer. So instead of waiting weeks or years to remember the good times, you can share them now to be remembered tomorrow.
You always get enough ink for the amount of paper that you buy so you don't waste ink. You insert your memory card into the front of the printer (it accepts just about every common memory card). Want your prints to look "old timey". While this is more expensive than sending your prints to Costco, you have the benefit of not having to drive to Costco. Want to print all the photos on the memory card. While the built-in software isn't going to replace Photoshop, it wasn't meant to. I have taken them to a school banquet and printed photos of all the guests for a take home souvenir. For that, you need to shoot in black and white on film.
And this printer was the fourth.Now, a printer is not the kind of thing one should fall in love with. The ink cartridge is loaded into the side of the printer. )(9)It is flexible. This works out to a slightly smaller 3.94 x 5.83 inch print).
Okay, so your photographic skills aren't the best or you don't have a top shelf SLR. Simply select the "print all" command and it will print all the photos. One minute later, your print is ready to handle and share. The second, I married. When you buy the special paper for the printer, the solid ink cartridge(s) come with the paper.
And while it is a very nice box, a box it is none-the-less.But I am in love. This printer is for fixing minor photographic glitches or for adding a little fun to the prints that you can share right away. Service centers are nearly everywhere in the USA.(7)It is portable. Want more. The included CD has a photo editor and more advanced features to play with your images that you can run on a laptop if you're into that kind of thing. Unlike inkjet printers, the photo won't run if water spills on it. Evidently, dots per inch are not all the same).(2)It is simple to use. Red eye a problem.
It's a pile of plastic and metal enclosed in a box. (Though I can't say I haven't lost a picture because of the crappy photographer. Kept out of the sun, the photos should last your lifetime and into your kids lifetime. What this printer does is allow you to remember the good times that you've shared TODAY. In many other printers, including full size ones, the paper has to feed through several sets of rollers that bend the paper through a convoluted paper path.
The third was a Weber Q grill. When I was little, this meant gathering around the photo album and reminiscing about times gone by. This makes a good deal almost too good to pass up. The paper feeds from the tray and passes in a straight line to the back of the printer. Using two printers, two cameras, and a small pile of memory cards, my wife and I printed over two hundred take home keepsakes to remember the event with in under three hours. There's even a port for plugging in a 24 volt battery supply, though I haven't tried it yet.(8)It is reliable. You take your picture. Photography was invented to record moments in time.
The dye sublimation ink is wax based and does not dissolve in water. Kind of like the concept behind the Polaroid camera.(6)It is made by Canon. As far as I'm concerned, that's not why I got this printer for. This means that this model is being discounted rather aggressively.
This is great little printer, that produces very clear and vivid permanent pictures very easily that even kids can use it. The unit can read SD and other memory cards directly and is real easy to produce fantastic color prints. The 4 and not 5 stars is because it uses Canon paper only as opposed to off the market paper - at least so far.Overall a good buy that will fill you with no regrets.
I was so pleased w/this item that I ordered another one. The only negative is that even though I bought the 2nd one the following week it was sold for $20.00 less and Amazon did not offer a price adjustment. I was very disapointed b/c other merchants that I have purchased from offer an adjustment.
I was looking for something compact that I could take with me on vacations, etc. The quality for each print is fantastic. and this is perfect. My five year nephew can even hook it up to the camera and pick which picture he wants to print. It does not print bigger than 4x6. I thought the ink/photo paper combo that goes with this was very reasonable.
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