Customer Reviews

Canon Compact Photo Printer Selphy CP730

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I received the cp720 model along with a canon digital camera and I am thoroughly impressed by the quality of prints that this prints- I would have believed that these photos were printed from a lab if I didn't know otherwise.

The replacement ink cartridge is extremely easy to use and replace, no mess. They are designed for a specific number of prints and they work great right up until the end, so there are no faded pictures when your ink is low.

The photo paper is very nice, thick stock, and glossy, with perforated edges.

You are limited to paper by the manufacturer, but refills are reasonably priced, compared to getting prints professionally made.

This printer does an excellent job. The colors are vivid and the clarity is
very crisp. The only negative is you are restricted to the canon paper with end tabs. Good value for a compact snap shot printer.

What do you call people like me? Photo-aspirants? I'm not a professional photographer. But I shoot images all the time, sometimes a dozen or two a day, trying to create a picture other people will find curious, entertaining, weird, surprising, silly, shocking: "refrigerator-quality," I guess.

Kris Hermanns told me her mother had a device like this, that printed postcards from digital cameras. I bought it on that slight recommendation. I had a new Canon PowerShot A620. I had a trip to France on the calendar. Kismet.

I've always used film. I was a film snob: I wanted beautiful images. The first photo that came off this Selphy CP730 printer blew me across the room. The color was intense, perfect, gorgeous; and in my hand in less than a minute, printed on glossy stock with a postcard back. I compared it to a film print and couldn't tell the difference. It was this printer, in fact, that convinced me that digital photography was as good as film. Not just "as good as" -- better, because of the control you have over color. Anybody want some aging, unexposed film? I've never gone back.

My system (which I sometimes pack up and travel with) includes my Canon digital camera, the Selphy printer, my MacBook loaded with iPhoto (which allows me to manipulate). It's a seamless, no-issues production process. I often pump out a half-dozen curious images a day, to send to friends, colleagues, family. It keeps me in touch with them at low cost. When we have our big summer party, I'll also use the Selphy to print out the invitations (created in Photoshop, so I can add text).

I sent a Selphy to my sister-in-law, Aimee, who IS an art and professional photographer; and she loves it, too.

Actually, this is CP720 review, but the spec of CP730 is almost same except 2.0 LCD, Image Cropping Function, Battery Operated, multi format media, My Colors photo effects, Wireless printing with IrDA.
I have bought two CP720 for $99.00 each from local store. It has several useful functions like 1.5 inch LCD preview monitor, multi layout control, built in USB cable and card reader... Print quality is excellent with anti-smudge coating, you can not tell the difference with print from Photo Lab or even better. Printing time takes less than 2 min. Delivering high quality photos that last for up to 100 years. Highly recommend this printer for people who want to print snap photos by themselves. Furthermore, upgrade version CP730 has battery operated option, so you can get nice photo lab quality print at anytime, anywhere.
CONs; 28¢ per print. Easy to get dust spot on the final image while 3 pass print processing. No image Cropping function(But $50 more CP730 has it!)

Picture sharpness is excellent, but some images print darker than they should. Cropping is my only real complaint. The controls are awkward and, worse, not fine enough. It's often difficult to frame everything you want and not what you don't want because the available cropping settings are inadequate. There's no technical reason for this limitation, Canon just didn't provide fine enough control of that feature.

This is a great little printer; it is very easy to use and makes great prints right out of the camera. The paper and cartridge are very easy to replace and the printer tells you when to replace the cartridge etc. The controls are easy to operate and get the hang of. So far I have made about two hundred prints, it's a snap.
I bought two of them.

And it is one of the few printers that takes a rechargeable battery, just in case.

I just got the Canon Selphy CP730 and the best thing that I can say is that it is extremely portable. If you want a picture on the fly, wherever you go then I might consider this. But if you are buying this to use at home like I have, with an eye for toting it about, the print quality is lacking sharpness and the colors are lacking depth. My HP printer does a much better job but lacks the portability. Bottom line, it doesn't produce good pictures.

Out of the box, with little instruction was able to print from camera, computer, memory card.

Don't expect much from printer editing tools: they are quite primative.

Photos are good resolution and at least as true as the store printed. And is easily taken with when travel to send as postcards home.

See no need for the battery power pack yet. Caution: Don't buy anything but the paper / dye cartridge combos made for this series of printer.

Have had it for about six weeks. I ordered the one hundred paper pack with its ink container by Canon. Principal user is my spouse, but I have had a fun time comparing it to the results of my HP Photosmart with three inks that I paid a whole lot more for. When you think about it, a 4 by 6 is a handy print size for proofing pics or sending them off in the mail. The usual Canon paper stock is a very heavy cardboard with a post card imprint on the back. The colors come out fine straight out of the printer. A couple times I had to insert and reinsert the card in the SD slot to have it recognized. Like to think that is not a defect because I am happy with the results. One of the advantages of dye sub printing is that the final swipe of the sliding tray gives a protective coating to the print,which is useful. It is a very small unit and would find room in a suitcase, but very tough looking plastic. The little window is not hard to see,and one can do some simple manipulations with the image such as rotation and rough cropping. Overall, if it holds up in use, I consider this a great bargain and a no brainer in operation for the average user. J and R has good order service and packs well incidentally.

So I took photos that included a nice blue sky and printed out a few on this printer. It seems it has trouble with sky gradients. In the photos, the horizon sky is a light-blue/cyan color then it changes to a nice deep blue as you go higher in the picture. When I look at the photo on my monitor it looks perfect, however, when I print out on this photo printer it looks somewhat speckled at the transition from light-blue to deep blue. It's almost as if the printer or the dye has trouble with fine gradients.
For the price of the dye I would expect much better (compared to online printers). And don't try to blame it on my camera.
Another thing. I tried loading edited images onto an SD card and printing from the card but the printer could not read the edited images from the card. I guess it only wants images straight from the camera? That seems silly, but ok. They printed out fine if I printed from the computer though (although see first paragraph).
Other than those two things it's a decent printer. It's nice and small, although I don't like how the paper comes out the back periodically when it is printing. If I sound picky, I am.
Bottom line I think the printer is OK but for the price of the dye, I would rather just get my prints online mailed to me. Seems like that has worked fine.