Canon SELPHY CP760 Compact Photo Printer (2565B001)
by Canon
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: CanonRelease Date: 2009-11-30
Model: 2565B001
Color: white
Product features:
- Prints full-color 4 x 6 inch photos in less than a minute
- No need for a computer -- print directly from a memory card or USB drive
- Prints colorful photos at resolutions as high as 300 x 300 dpi
- Optional BU-30 Bluetooth interface
- Compact design measures 7.9 x 3.3 x 5.6 inches (WxHxD)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Canon SELPHY CP760 Compact Photo Printer (2565B001)
Customer Review: A GREAT compact photo printer to share the love!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have fallen in love four times in my life. The first was a heartbreaker in college. The second, I married. The third was a Weber Q grill. And this printer was the fourth.
Now, a printer is not the kind of thing one should fall in love with. It's stupid. It's a pile of plastic and metal enclosed in a box. And while it is a very nice box, a box it is none-the-less.
But I am in love. Let me count the ways.
(1) It does what it says: it prints beautiful color photos in about a minute. 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. In the first three steps, different color inks are deposited on top of each other to create all the other colors of the spectrum. In the last step, a clear coating is applied that protects the print from minor scratches and fingerprints. (BTW, don't let the 300dpi resolution put you off. The photos look every bit as good as the "60 million by 24 million dots per blah, blah, blah of the ink jet printers. Evidently, dots per inch are not all the same.)
(2) It is simple to use. You take your picture. You insert your memory card into the front of the printer (it accepts just about every common memory card). You select your photo from the small display built in to the printer and press the print button. One minute later, your print is ready to handle and share. Want to print all the photos on the memory card? Simply select the "print all" command and it will print all the photos. No laptop or PC needed.
(3) It is cost effective - take 1. When you buy the special paper for the printer, the solid ink cartridge(s) come with the paper. You always get enough ink for the amount of paper that you buy so you don't waste ink. Unlike inkjet printers, you don't waste ink cleaning nozzles or have ruined pictures because of a clogged inkjet. At the normal price, prints come out to about 30¢a print. While this is more expensive than sending your prints to Costco, you have the benefit of not having to drive to Costco. With gas at $3 a gallon, you have to factor that in. I have actually bought paper and ink in a 108 print box from Best Buy that was on sale for about $14. This brought the cost down to about 12¢ a print. Needless to say, I bought eight boxes. 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. The prints come in only one size, 4x6. (Actually, the print is really 100mm by 148mm. This works out to a slightly smaller 3.94 x 5.83 inch print.) If you want larger or smaller prints, then this is not the printer for you. However, the upside is that you only have to carry only one type of ink cartridge and one type of paper. 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. Unlike inkjet printers, the photo won't run if water spills on it. The dye sublimation ink is wax based and does not dissolve in water. Kept out of the sun, the photos should last your lifetime and into your kids lifetime. Will it last forever? No. For that, you need to shoot in black and white on film. Frankly, this printer is not for archival purposes. It is intended to print pictures that you can enjoy and share immediately. Kind of like the concept behind the Polaroid camera.
(6) It is made by Canon. Canon has been making quality photo equipment for generations and this printer is no exception. Service centers are nearly everywhere in the USA.
(7) It is portable. I can store two of these printers - with all power cables and a box of paper - in a large laptop computer case. I have taken them to a school banquet and printed photos of all the guests for a take home souvenir. 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. The paper loads in a tray that is inserted into the front of the printer. The ink cartridge is loaded into the side of the printer. The paper feeds from the tray and passes in a straight line to the back of the printer. The paper shuttles back and forth while the layers of ink and protective coating is applied to the paper. That's it. 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. 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. The more convoluted the path, the more complicated the mechanism has to be and the less reliable the printer becomes. The straighter the path, the more reliable. 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. (Though I can't say I haven't lost a picture because of the crappy photographer. ')
(9) It is flexible. Okay, so your photographic skills aren't the best or you don't have a top shelf SLR. There is a limited amount of adjustability built right into the printer. Want the colors to "POP"? Choose the "vivid" selection and the color saturation is amped up a bit. Want your prints to look "old timey"? Select sepia tone. Red eye a problem? Automatically fixed. While the built-in software isn't going to replace Photoshop, it wasn't meant to. Photoshop is for being creative. This printer is for fixing minor photographic glitches or for adding a little fun to the prints that you can share right away. You can even adjust contrast and color settings if you're the fussy sort. 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. As far as I'm concerned, that's not why I got this printer for.
(10) Which brings me to why I've fallen in love. To me, photos are meant to share memories. When I was little, this meant gathering around the photo album and reminiscing about times gone by. What this printer does is allow you to remember the good times that you've shared TODAY! 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. So instead of waiting weeks or years to remember the good times, you can share them now to be remembered tomorrow. Photography was invented to record moments in time. If you want or need your photos to be perfect reproductions of reality, then this is the wrong printer for you. 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. This means that this model is being discounted rather aggressively. This makes a good deal almost too good to pass up. I ended up buying four more to give to my friends and family.
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