Customer Reviews

Canon PIXMA mini260 Photo Inkjet Printer (1444B002)

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Received this mini260 recently as a gift. It was very easy and quick to set up and get up and running. Just remove a few plastic wrappings and pop in the ink cartridge, print out 2 alignment strips and you are good to go. Just select number of copies and press print and off it goes. You can select standard or high quality, but they both looked great and identical to me. Using standard gives you prints in 20 or 30 seconds. The higher setting takes just under a minute. I started using it before reading the instructions so at first I was printing the same photo over and over, because it was the only one selected to print 1 copy. It does not print what you see on the screen unless you have selected at least 1 copy of it. There will soon be a battery pack for this but it is not available yet. I also have not found a carrying bag for the printer and accessories made specifically for this printer (like HP has), so I just use a small laptop case which works perfectly to carry the printer, AC cord, extra paper and ink. The prints come out dry, they look great and this has been a very fun printer to use. I'm very impressed and partial to the Canon quality of cameras and printers. They just seem to always work great with no hassle. There is a separate sheet of paper included with the printer easy set up guide instructing you to make sure the ink cartridge sits nice and snug in it's slot. It's just something Canon wanted to add after printing their setup guide to make sure you pop the cartidge in place properly. Another reviewer made it sound like a big deal but it's not. You'll know if the ink is sitting properly or not. I have a lot of Canon photo paper but also tried some other generic brand and the pictures look just as good. So, maybe this printer isn't very picky as to the type of photo paper you use. I know Kodak paper works great on my Canon i550 printer for photos. Also, this is a very quiet printer. Not much noise when printing at either standard or hi-quality. The carrying handle that slides out of the unit is also pretty nice when moving printer from room to room.

When I first got the printer I had some HP and Kodak 4x6 blank photo paper. I tried printing pictures and they looked bad (had streks, blury). I found out you have to use Canon paper. After I bought Canon paper the pictures look very good using pictures taken with a 4.0 mega-pixel Canon camera.

The best compact/travel photo printer hands down! Easy to set up and use. Awesome picture quality and sharpness. Colors jump off the page! I bought a second one as a christmas present for my mother the day after getting mine. It also fits into my canon rebel xti bag with room for the camera body + lens PLUS one other lens and four lens covers! I highly recommend without hesitation!

the mini 260 is very easy to use right out of the box
lives up to canon's reputation. great price tru amazon
picture are lab quality

I've always loved Canon digital cameras, so I was sure that I would also love a Canon printer. Sadly, I've never been so unhappy with anything as I am with this mini260 printer. After less than six months, of light to medium use, the printer seems to be worn out. I am faced with either replacing the print head (which Canon happily tells me may not solve the problem), or replacing the printer completely. Further, I have found that the ink cartridges are nearly impossible to find locally (so I order them from amazon), the paper is very expensive locally, and the printer is picky about using only Canon paper. Other papers give very poor print results. The user interface is very 'clicky', and I'm not impressed with the feel of the printer - it's very lightweight and fragile-feeling. Before I purchased this canon printer, I used an HP photoprinter (one of the first) for YEARS and was very happy. Guess what I am about to do now ?

We truly love the Canon PIXMA mini260 Photo Printer. The quality of the photos is sharper, clearer and has brighter color than those we saw that were printed on the HP 712 photo printer.

However, it would be very nice if the Canon PIXMA had 2 to 4 Gig of internal memory. Also it does not directly receive our Olypus XD photo flash card. This means buying an adapter to insert the card into in order to feed photos directly into the printer or downloading the files from the card onto the computer hard drive and then into the printer. It is not a problem as long as you have any flash card other than the XD.

The adapters are a little hard to find locally. They'er avaliable on the net.

All in all - the quality of the photos makes up for the file download hassle.

I am really enjoying this wonderful photo printer. It's easy to use and the quality of pictures is good. What makes this printer so nice is that it is small and doesn't take up alot of space.

For a first timer on photo printer, I was quite proud of myself for putting it togeter out of the box. The installation process was easy, print quality was compatible to the one-hour photo print you get in the stores. Took me awhile to figure out how to print 4 imagies on 1 print. Overall, it is easy to use for basic 4x6 prints, printing from memory card or from camera. Unfortunately it does not print from computer and cannot print other sizes. Unless you only want to do 4x6 prints and don't use a computer, get something more advanced as you will quicky get bored of it and want more.

I use to have the PictureMate. I had a lot of trouble with it, seems there was just some sort of conflict with my software. I finally had enough of printing 10 pictures at a time and then rebooting and bought this little gem.

Totally easy to use, has loads more printing options and the color on the prints is just fabulous.

Is is difficult to find the cartridges locally, so be sure you buy plenty of extras to have on hand from Amazon.

This is a great little printer for quick and easy 4x6 prints. Make sure you use the canon photo paper, I had some HP hanging around, got some smudges, and images were not quite as clean. I'm a little upset that I didn't wait a couple more weeks, the price went down quite a bit since I ordered it.