Canon CD-300 Digital Photo Printer

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.8 x 3.7 inches ; 6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TT39
• Item model number: CD-300
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 11, 2000

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Canon CD-300 prints your images directly from many models of digital cameras without requiring you to first transfer the data to a computer. Plus, it features high-speed 300 dpi photo-quality resolution. With its moving-film carriage, the CD-300 prints up to 256 shades of cyan, then magenta, followed by yellow, and then it prints a protective ultraviolet layer to prevent image fading. The UV coating also extends the archival status of your prints by protecting them from moisture, fingerprints, and scratches. The CD-300 prints borderless (full bleed) postcard size, 4-by-6, and 4-by-10 panoramas. It use a dye-sublimation transfer technology that prints with high resolution to produce top-quality prints with the ready convenience of printing in your own studio, fully in control of the results.

The CD-300 is automatic and easy to use when working with images from 35mm mounted slide film, strip film, color/monochrome, positives and negatives, and APS IX240 cartridges, and whether or not it is connected to your computer. It also accepts Type I and II CompactFlash, PCMCIA-ATA Type II, video, and S-video inputs. The CD-300 supports JPEG and JFIF file formats.

With print speeds of up to 3 minutes per sheet and printing modes of high quality and panorama, you can determine the degree of quality and speed when producing your own photo prints. Easy-to-use controls located on the front of the unit include the power button, control panel, paper cassette inlet, ink cassette door, CF card slot, PC Card slot, and video-in jack, making it simpler to insert or remove memory cards, paper cassettes, and the ink cassette. Each cassette yields up to 36 sheets. The Canon CD-300 is compact, with dimensions just under 10 by 4 by 11 inches, and weighs approximately 6 pounds. --Barbara Price

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent photos...only print the ones you like!, January 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Canon CD-300 Digital Photo Printer (Office Product)

The only limitation on this excellent little printer is the photo sizes. However, contrary to some other models, this unit will print panoramic(4x10) photos as well as 4x6 prints. You can connect it to your television as an external monitor and tweak your pictures or add borders, or you can print an index sheet and decide which you like off of that. Plus, if you use it with a camera that uses a digital print order format( canons and some others) as I do, you can decide which photos you want printed directly from the camera, then insert the card into the printer and press print. It couldn't be any easier! As far as print quality, it really does rival those of a lab, and the paper feels just like it as well.

I used it over Christmas for a huge family get together. We would take photographs with my camera and have them printed in minutes. It's not every day that we get together, so it was really great to let everyone see the photos before they were ever printed on the tv screen and have them choose which they liked. I sincerely recommend this printer for anyone with a digital camera!

25 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No XP Driver!, May 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Canon CD-300 Digital Photo Printer (Office Product)

This would be a fine printer. It produces lovely prints. The problem? For reasons I cannot fathom, CANON HAS DECIDED *NOT* TO RELEASE A WINDOWS XP DRIVER!! Now that I've upgraded my PC to XP, my Canon is a paperweight.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful printer, but cannot use on many computers., December 3, 2001

By 

John K. Edwards (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon CD-300 Digital Photo Printer (Office Product)

I have this printer and love it. Or used to love it. I just got a new computer which runs Windows XP. You cannot use this printer with a new computer because Canon has arbitrarily decided not to release printer drivers. Their nonsensical stated reason is that the printer does not support USB (universal serial bus). Windows XP could support this printer. It recognizes the printer as new hardware over the parallel printer bus and asks for a driver. Since Canon has decided not to support Canon products there is no usable driver. Canon has only released Windows 95/98 drivers.

Do not buy this printer unless you are willing to keep around a Windows 98 computer with which to use it.

I've bought my last Canon product.