Customer Reviews

Canon Selphy ES1 Compact Photo Printer (0324B001)

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4 star:		(3)
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2 star:		(1)
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This thing is unreal. If you want easy, and beautiful 4x6 prints than this is the one. I am a professional wedding and portraits photographer, and wanted something to take with me. I also have a picky eye, and wanted photo lab quality.

Not only is this small, and well integrated with it cartridge system (one of my favorite features) the prints can be made cheap (buy buying the 100 image packs) and to top it off it's a joy to watch print. It layers on color, and when the final come sout people are just amazed.

If you need a portable printer, and want the best then get this one. The only thing I don;t like is because you must buy the canon ink/paper cartridges you only have access to a glossy paper. It's worth ever penny though.

This printer has a lot of great features and is very portable. There are no trays sticking out, has a retractable mini-USB cord for many digital cameras, a USB-A and USB-B ports, and it even has an option for a rechargeable battery. I love the built-in calendar format that allows you to print out a single month calendar with your photo. The print quality is acceptable to me - and is highly dependent on the source. The better your camera, the better your photos. The Bluetooth adapter (optional accessory) makes it even more versatile. It's pretty quiet when printing - which is a blast to watch as it twirls the photo paper around. The all-in-one cartridges contain the ink ribbons and paper - so its really simple to refill. You never run out of ink before the paper runs out. I recommend getting the 100 pack of the 4x6 (E-P100), which contains two 50-sheet packs. You can get the per print cost down to 21 cents if you shop around.

I've had earlier generation Canon compact photo printers (CP-100, CP-300), and I think the ES1 is the best and most convenient yet.

This compact printer packs a punch with the photos produced. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the prints from the Selphy ES1 and a good photo processor.

Easy connections, fast printing, and it's just plain fun to watch it operate!

The colors are spot on, and they don't run like an ink-jet print will if you accidentally get them wet.

Highly recommended for anyone who wishes to print up to a postcard sized print at home or on the road.

I had waited for Selphy ES1 long before it is available in US. It was availble in Japan and Europe before USA but when I got it. It was a litle disapointed.

The paper set is inserted in the side but then when you print, the printer have to turn the paper before it can print. The mechanic later make a lot of jam. The picture is scratched.

The picture quality is amazing, clear, bright and nice.

The printer is heavy, much heavy than other brand with same function so cost more in shipping.

Canon put the Digic III processore into this machine but the firmware is not good design and function is very poor. The printer let you crop the image but the printer limit the layout you can print with crop image. More stupid than that, if you want to print the croped image to many frame layout, you can not simply by croping the image then select layout and specify the frame you put that image, but you have to do this job again and again and again for each frame. This is the thing I hate.

The digic III processore is strong but the firm ware is poor. You can not print the ID photo but still need canon digital camera do do the job. The functions to adjust the color,tone, brightness is not strong.

Canon ES1 have the same problem like its ancestor CP730, CP720. It eat more ribbon than paper. The more time you turn it off and on, the less picture you can print out in one photo paper kit. It happen because each time you turn off then on, the ES1 reset the ribbon so some frame in ribbon has never been used mean one kit 50 photos, you can print only 45 picture. The number of picure can print is also variable. Sometime I can print the whole 50 picture but more time I can print only 47-48.

I recently purchased a Canon Selphy ES1 compact printer, and I've already printed about 50 pictures. From the very first picture, this printer has produced dead on gorgeous prints. I have zero complaints. You load the ink/paper cartridge, turn it on and print, either from an insertable digital memory card, or from your computer using a USB cord. In addition, its footprint (space it occupies on your desk) is negligible (approximately 8" wide by 4" deep) as it is upright rather than flat. The combined ink/paper cartridge extremely cost effective compared to the cost of buying ink and paper separately. The software that comes with the printer is easy to use and intuitive. In fact, the Easy Printer Guide software makes finding and printing any picture on your computer a snap. The manual is well written and easy to follow. In short, I am delighted with this printer, and I recommend it highly.

Once you accept the obvious about this compact printer you will love it. It is, obviously, very small and light and intended for absolutely carefree printing of almost 4X6 inch snapshots. Just insert the memory media from your camera into the Selphy (no computer needed) and you can crop, make the simple adjustments to the image that would satisfy most of us for a snapshot, push the button and enjoy the blank photo sheet slide out, rotate, adjust itself properly and slide in and out several times applying each layer of color and a final coating. The image is very good, but not as good, in my opinion, as a top-of-the-line ink jet printer. But very good, nevertheless. Detail is superb so landscape photos are great. It is the perfect printer to spit out today's snaps of that quaint town you visited (you can certainly bring Selphy with you in the car or RV -- it can even run on batteries) and give a copy to those new friends you made at the local pub. For that great photo you captured to display on your dining room wall wait until you get home and use a professional printer. But for ease of use and excellent small snaps, this printer is perfect.

Overall it seems like this printer would be great, however, there is a big big issue here. The pictures that are printed are very dark. This makes people's faces almost impossible to see. I'm using iPhoto to print my pictures instead of printing directly from the camera/memory card itself so mabye that is the issue.

I've seen this complaint on numerous message boards (including this one) and I didn't really believe it, but now that I own the printer I can tell you that it is a real problem. There has not been a "fix" released by Canon for this problem yet and I get the feeling there never will be from what their customer support has been telling me.

Buyer Beware.

I've bought this printer and my family is happy with it. You can print your pictures anywhere with high quality, and you can send your picture as post card easily. No worry about ink.

This is the best printer I have ever use. It is very user-friendly also.
Photo's come out right every time.

I have several of this type printer. This is the best so far. It is also battery powered as an option. The integrated paper ribbon cartridge is a nice innovation. Excellent resolution and color - a little saturated but very pleasing color. Vrey well made and vista drivers!!! I really like the lithium battery option as you can print up to 50 prints on the go right from your camera.