Canon SELPHY CP780 Compact Photo Printer

I bought this printer after a bad experience with a much more exspensive, huge, noisy, ink jet photo printer, scanner, fax, all in one thing. This tiny printer is actually portable, you could easily take it on a vacation and print your photo's every day, it would be a blast at a wedding or event. It's so simple to use - my non-techno husband can use it. The print quality is good (not great - but hey, it's for snapshots)the dye sublimation process is really cool - prints come out dry, just like WalMart and the price for the printer is fabulous - I paid $79. I think each print is about 33 cents, a little more exspensive than WalMart, but we live in the country and the nearest photo place is 20 miles away. The only downside - you can't do much in the way of photo enhancement in the printer itself - if you need to crop etc, you have to download into a computer, enhance and then print from your computer. But it's a really cool little printer for the casual photographer!!! Our whole family - even the grandkids love it!

Never Used. Easier with a full printer.

I needed to print pics of my family after cataloguing a ton of photos on my computer. Compact, portable, inexpensive, and excellent quality for 4 X 6 prints only (also 4X8) - which most of us use for albums anyway. It's so easy to use, and produces prints so much better than inkjet printers because this is a dye-sublimation printer - which means that the color is laid down in layers like traditional color film (remember this) print processing - yellow, red, then cyan(blue). Like layer cake. Don't try to use an all in one inkjet to try to have everything you need in a home office in one machine - they cannot compare to this little workhorse. Do yourself and your family a favor and get this to print your photos - if you want them bigger (8x10, 14x17) you'll go to the print shop anyway.

Right out of the box. The selphie 780 wouldn't work. Kept coming up ink cartridge error. It was the biggest let down so far. Now dealing with trying to download the return label. When your old. It's hard to stay on top of things. I told my wife. When ordering on Amazon. You would expect good quality junk. Not junk.

I enjoyed the convenience and small size of this printer UNTIL my Mac's operating system was updated and Canon decided it wasn't important to offer new print drivers. So now I am forced to replace my photo printer because it's incompatible with my computer. At least I got a few good years out of this printer, though. Shockingly the latest Selphy models have this same flaw: they are NOT compatible with Mac OS X El Capitan, much less the even newer Mac OS Sierra. So I can't even just upgrade to the latest Selphy model. Instead, I am now buying an Epson. Very disappointed in Canon!

Setup was very simple, it's small, it prints relatively quickly and the print quality is great! This is exactly what I was looking for in a compact photo printer. I just hope it lasts for a long time without any problems. But as of now, excellent product. Update (2/27/2013): It worked well and photos came out looking great... until it broke. Cartridge jam resulted in an un-salvageable unit - couldn't get cartridge out, tried to take the whole thing apart to clean up the mess left inside and get the cartridge out, but there is no easy way of doing this with such a tiny printer. Had to trash the whole thing.. now debating if I should buy another or just order prints from local pharmacy. Disappointed that this happened without much wear on the printer (it wasn't used frequently).

Because I didn't want to dish out the overpriced dollars for the Canon iP100, I looked for something on a smaller priced scale. I did minimal research because I knew I wanted a Canon. The latest Canon CP780 does the job it's advertised. My printed photos are rich and colorful. One minute print times are okay, and the paper/ink sets (sold separately) fully coincide with the printer. I haven't had any snags or stuck papers. The printer doesn't take up any space at all in my living space. A couple of complaints. I agree with other reviewers about some of my photos having cut off heads during printing. It's only a few photos I've had a problem with, but it's not great. The other issue is the 4x6 photo size. I would love to have the option to print on 3x2 to make for an even more intimate photo collection. Currently, when my photos come up, I have to tweak the settings to print them on half a sheet. Now I have about 50 half sheets of unused photos! And no, you cannot use the other half of the photo for a different picture. It would be nice to have various sample sizes of paper (and cassettes) included in the box. One more thing is it would be nice to have a battery and bluetooth included. With current technology the way it is, the assumed portability of this printer, I should be able to open the box and start printing without going through the hassle of finding a plug, hooking it up, etc. That's why it's considered portable. I would pay an extra $20 for this printer if those items were included. My opinion. A note on customer service: My printer for some reason didn't come with the sample 5-sheet print pack, so instead of me sending the printer back, Amazon refunded me a small percentage. I love their customer service!