Customer Reviews

Canon Selphy CP760 Pink Compact Photo Printer (3255B001)

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
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If you are looking for a photo printer that is convenient basic and easy to use...you cannot go wrong here! The photos print out quickly and are great quality. The printer comes with some paper & ink however if you want to print more then a few you'll need to buy additional paper & ink...which is somewhat of a pain but is honestly to be expected. It's a great addition to any house with families or those who like to take pictures. The best part is you just stick your memory card in the slot and print. No more uploading and sending them off to pick them up an hour later or have them mailed to your house! You cannot go wrong on this printer for the price!!

This little printer is very nice. It prints out very close to lab quality prints (my friends had no idea I printed at home, and they wanted to compare their photos next to mine, couldn't tell which ones were print at home or photo lab without knowing). You need to buy the paper and ink cassette together in a set ($30 for 108 prints), but the good news is when you are out of ink you are also out of paper, so you always know where you stand. It does seem to cut the heads off of some photos. You can switch it to make a photo that is 3 x 5, but since you have to use the included 4x6 paper which has perferrated edges that you tear off after printing (I have tried other papers in both 4x6 and 3x5, but printer says "wrong size paper") the photo needs to be cut down from that 4x6 size to 3x5 by hand (since it has to be printed on that 4x6 with perferrated edges paper). That would be my only complaint, would really like to use regualar paper and not have to tear edges off, or cut down to size. Photos are so sleek right from the printer you can touch immediately without smudging. Just under a minute per photo to print. I got this for $40, and it prints as nice as my $230 canon pixma printer which I love. SO COMPACT! It is great for family get togethers so you can print off some of your photos for everyone. Highly recommend, so slick to print off photos at my sons birthday party and send home with the boys. Super easy to use, even my 10 year old uses it.

UPDATE! I have been printing my wedding photos this week, and my friends and family truly like the photos off this printer better than Walmart. We had a couple of photos printed at Walmart, because heads were close to the edge and got cut off. The ones where the heads were cut off a little were more vivid than the Walmart photos. Just beautiful.

Watch this, as it has been as low as $30, and I have bought 2 since getting mine as gifts and my son's teacher was just delighted with hers and says she no longer bothers waiting in line at Walmart anymore!

I purchased this printer as part of a bundle package with a Canon camera 6 months ago. Quite frankly I couldn't be more pleased. It prints out photos in very little time and is more cost and time effective than going to a commercial shop for developing. The cartridge packs last a whole lot longer that I had anticipated. Although it comes with a starter set, additional kits can be purchased at Wal-mart or at Amazon. I will never purchase store bought photos again.

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 the love.

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.

I purchased this printed for my mom and she absolutely loves it! I own the CP760(white) and paid about $30 more for mine through Amazon months ago. The software is user-friendly and photos are a breeze to print. It is nice to have the ability to view the picture on your monitor and edit your photos prior to printing. You can insert your SD card directly into the printer and print from there without even needing a computer, but I like being able to manipulate the image (when necessary) before printing. The photo packs will print 108 photos for roughly $28-$30. You can also purchase photo packs which have the postcard backs. Pretty neat.

Let me start by stating that I don't usually write reviews, but I certainly read them. I bought this little printer in 2009 after my third HP photosmart died on me. I am a photo fanatic and I have a hard time being satisfied with print quality when I use kiosks and in-store photo labs. I was surprisingly pleased when this printer arrived. It is attractive looking, pleasingly heavy, and setup was a snap. I have a Canon digital Rebel EOS and I know a little about photography, and I want my prints to look as good as they do on my camera. This printer may not be perfect, but it is close. I love the print quality and it BY FAR beats my local stores in quality. I print about 1000 pictures per year on average, and with this printer I print two per page, and this saves me a ton of money and space on my photo bookshelf. The ink and paper kit is right around thirty bucks and this comes out to $0.27 per 4x6. This is a great deal. The only complaint I have is a minor one, and it's the speed and noise. If I am printing 25 sheets it takes about 25 minutes, so I just leave them printing while I leave the room. It's not terribly loud, but you wouldn't want to sit and listen to it for over a few minutes. I have had several compliments on my photo prints and people ask me all the time where I have them printed. If you print casually or even moderately, I would definitely recommend this printer. If mine broke today I'd buy another one tomorrow.

Good price x a good little printer. Good quality photos. Money worth every penny.Easy to use.

This makes awsome pictures it is very easy to operate. I'm very pleased with the finished products a very good investment. My grandchildred think this is great!!! And so do I.

This printer is awesome! it really does print a clear, crisp picture. I got it to take and print pictures at my wedding for the guestbook, but can't help but play with it before then.

it's awesome that you can just plug your memory card right into the printer and choose the pictures you want. I'm pretty computer savvy, but having a hard time getting the printer to work with my computer once I edit or crop the images.

I definitely recommend this printer to for pictures "on the go."

I bought this photo printer so I can print pictures on the go. I love it!!! It's compact, portable and easy to use. It's so easy that I taught my 6 yr old niece in 5 minutes and she printed out a ton of pictures for me @ our Christmas party. Now she wants one for herself. LOL. I have used this printer @ several gatherings and parties and everyone is amazed how cool this little printer is. I've already ordered 2 more as gifts for my girlfriends. You can't beat the price. So if you looking for a great simple but good quality printer...this is it. The only bad thing that I can say about this printer is that it's a little slow on the output but that really doesn't matter once you see the picture you just printed.