Canon Selphy CP400 Photo Printer

by Canon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9 x 4.5 inches ; 1.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007KQT1W
• Item model number: CP400
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 17, 2005

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The compact photo printer Selphy CP400 makes home photo printing easy, fast, and enjoyable. Connect any PictBridge-compatible camera for instant quality prints and great family fun.

Images in Seconds
With the ease-of-use, speed and style of the Selphy CP400, you can produce vibrant, professional quality prints from the comfort of your home. Simply connect your PictBridge or Canon direct print compatible camera directly to the Selphy CP400, select your favourite image, and you can start to see your images print immediately--it really is that easy.

High-Quality Images
Superb quality photos with vibrant and natural colours are beautifully recreated with the Selphy CP400's capability for 16.7 million colours and smooth tonal gradations. A durable glossy protective coating helps to protect your precious memories from moisture and fading for up to 100 years. It also gives your photos a traditional look and feel, just like a professional photo lab print.

Small but Quick
At only 171 x 120 x 56 millimeters and weighing just 820 grams, the Selphy CP400 is one of the smallest and lightest photo printers available. When using a Canon camera with DIGIC II, postcard size (100 x 148 millimeters) prints take just 81 seconds.

Print Options
The Selphy CP400 offers a choice of print sizes, from the most popular postcard and wide size 100 x 200 millimeter prints (requires optional tray), to credit card size and fun mini-stickers for the kids. When connected to a Canon camera with the ID photo print feature, the Selphy CP400 can create different sized photo-booth style ID prints for passport and other ID purposes. When used with Canon cameras featuring movie print mode, the printer can output an entire action sequence of evenly spaced frames from any chosen movie clip.

Dynamic Design
With its cool body color and smooth curves, the Selphy CP400 looks stylish anywhere in the home. Always ready to use, it is compatible with over 30 Canon digital cameras and supports all Canon direct print features, making it the ideal user-friendly photo printer. For printing from computers, Canon's ZoomBrowser EX (for Windows) and ImageBrowser (for Macintosh) software is supplied.

Product Description

Color Horizontal Resolution: 300 dpi

Color Vertical Resolution: 300 dpi

Functions: Printer

Interface Type: USB - Universal Serial Bus 2.0

Media Sizes Accepted: Sheet - 4" x 6"

Paper Handling Support: Paper (Glossy Cut Sheet), Paper (Standard Cut Sheet), Photo Paper

Printer Type: Color Dye Sublimation, Photo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The little printer that could, December 23, 2005

By 

K. Gittins (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Selphy CP400 Photo Printer (Office Product)

I wanted a simple printer so I could make a few prints from time to time to hand out. On sale for $50, this seemed like the right one.

I already had the included Zoombrowser and Photo Stitch software installed from my prior purchase of a Canon A95 camera, so I just needed to install the driver. Note this requires a USB cable (not included) to the printer.

As is human nature, I tried to print without reading the Zoombrowser instructions, and got a lovely plain sky-blue print with the words "My Album" on it - but no photo :-) Then, out came a stunning second print which was totally blank but with some faint horizontal lines - this was from a residual click from my first attempt. Ok, Ok, so I looked at the PDF printing guide for about 15 seconds, and followed the instructions.

Got a beautiful first print of the Queen Mary ship. Got a gorgeous second print of flags (red/white/blue, and green) againt a clear blue sky, and the third print was very nice of a field of flowers near Mt Lassen (ironically the original proof print of this from 20 years ago was scanned onto my computer just today to get rid of paper prints...)

So, I've blown through the provided "trial" 5 sheets of paper and film cartridge, and have 3 very nice prints (with postcard address lines, stamp area and Canon logo on the back - the paper comes that way.) The ends of the paper remain white but have perforations about 1/2 inch from the end so you can remove them after printing.

I can't compare the printing software to any other brand, but setting up a plain photo-only print takes about 10 seconds of menu choices. If you want to add backgrounds, titles/text, etc, that is available as well. (Got another pack of paper/film, and put humorous captions on kind of funny-bad office Christmas pix...)

Printing directly from my A95 takes about the same time as from the computer - about 1 min 45 sec.

The actual operation involves the paper being passed in and out of the printer 4 times (3 color passes and a protective layer) so it is important the back of the printer is not obstructed, particularly by the power cord which hangs down near the edge of the slot. The finished print is deposited on top of the paper cassette in front.

The unit looks and feels substantial for its small size, comes well packed (survived NY to CA shipping), has decent documentation, and a 1-year warranty.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thumbs up, October 20, 2006

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Christopher Robertson "ctr" (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Selphy CP400 Photo Printer (Office Product)

this is a great little printer especially for its size and price ($40)

prints a little dark often, but that can be adjusted on the software side

it has never jammed or otherwise messed up a pic

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Excellent Canon Selphy CP400, March 1, 2007

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Priscilla Vanlaarhoven "prof. pvl" (KEW GARDENS, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Canon Selphy CP400 Photo Printer (Office Product)

For a photo printer with dye sublimation so that your pictures are non-water soluable and come out crisp and clean the Canon Selphy CP400 is amazing. I have used it for very high volume printing and it is reliable and perfect every time. The packs of postcard paper come with their own ink catridges for the exact amount of ink for the paper used so you never end up with paper and no ink. The price for these paper/ink combos is totally reasonable although I do recommend purchasing the 108 sheet packs for super economy. There are certainly lots of different kinds of photo printers out there that have more features but because of the simplicity of the CP400 you know there won't be much that can go wrong. This is a wonderful item and I really do intend to purchase another one to keep on hand for double printing or in the event something happens to the first one. Excellent purchase, come highly recommended!!!