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Simple to add cartridge to the printer. I am never surprised as to when I will be out of ink because of the EXACT ratio, ink to paper. If I have 15 sheets of photo paper (provided with ink) Then I also have enough ink for 15 sheets. Great Idea!

Received the Selphy printer for Christmas - I find the cost of prints to be very reasonable - near the same price as sending them to your local store to be printed. I love the convenience of printing from home - especially if I only need a few pictures.This product is amazing how the ink and paper seem to last the right amount of time - I am on my fourth box of paper and have not had the ink run out before the paper ran out. Occasionally I will have a photo print with a flaw but the percentage of prints with flaws are low.I used this to print Graduation Open House announcements - was great to print on demand when we needed a few extras. Love the convenience and the fact it is a wifi printer - no messy cords!!!

These are designed for use with the SELPHY printer. They are easy to use and relatively inexpensive. I take a supply with me when I travel so that I can immediately print a copy of a picture for my subject. It is great for meetings because you can print pictures immediately.

For the people who always run out of ink before they run out of paper, eject your ink cartridge BEFORE powering down and powering up your printer. I only put my ink cartridge in when the printer is already on and I am ready to print. When I am done, before powering down the machine, I eject the cartridge again. I always have just enough ink for the amount of paper given. I hope this helps.

Got a Canon Selphy printer as part of a bundled deal with a camera. Ordered the paper set on line from Amazon for a good price. I like the quality, color and convenience of this dye-sublimation process. Price is about 35 cents per print with the KP-108IN paper set. It is inexpensive enough, good and easy for one-off prints the wife likes to give to family and friends. For a bunch of prints it would be best to send the files off to a printing service, but for quick, quality 4X6 prints this can't be beat. Bought a couple of Selphy printers for the kids for Christmas. Maybe they'll send us some grandkid photos. Told them to buy the KP-108IN paper set.

Some old models of CP printers show a little glitch of running out of ink before paper runs out. Before it starts printing, a printer tries to find the beginning of a new section in the ink cartridge. If it misses this, the printer would feed forward the entire section, wasting that section unused.The first thing you can do to avoid this is to keep your printer on. This problem often happens at your first print after you turn on the printer.If the printer has been off, take out the ink cartridge and rewind a film a little before you put it back. If you don't see two black lines and you are in a clear section, that should be enough. You can rewind the film by turning a film spool in the smaller compartment counter-clockwise. To do so, you need to push in both film spools a little. The film should go in the opposite direction as to when you take out a slack.If the ink reaches the end before you use up paper, rewind the film until you find an unused section. Holding the film onto a white background helps you to find an unused section. Keep rewinding until you pass an unused yellow section and two black lines and until you are in a previously used clear section. The back of a hexagonal pencil is very useful for this.Hope these tips will help you to get great printouts out of your CP printer the most efficiently.

Awesome Deal!- can't wait to use for family party photo booth! It prints some pretty awesome photos, arrived in a day and a half, and set up was super easy. Love the size, it's going to be super convenient for me when it comes time for the party. Printer works well with "SimpleBooth" photo booth event app on the iPad($59.99)Such a cheap way for great photo booth fun and you get to keep all your merchandise! Huge fan of Canon products!!

Amazing printer! Easy to use.My family like it very much.

This little guy is a tried and trusty workhorse. Great for on the spot prints, especially if you need immediate printing for events. I used it for a golf shoot and the results were very well taken by the golfers. Colors are good, it's fast enough (but not speedy, it's not meant for super fast printing), and best of all not one issue with jams or color bleed.

First off I have to say I'm SUPER impressed with prime 1-day shipping avail for this product (plus paper packs)! I ordered maybe 9am and it was delivered by 5pm .

I watched a few you tube videos on using/review before I went ahead and ordered. Set up was just as simple i didn't even bother reading the guide (usually it just makes it more confusing). I was printing within minutes of unboxing!!

For its small size, the print was fast and fun to see the layer of yellow-mengenta-pink then the clear coating.

The lcd is not touch navigation though so it's awkward because all my devices use touch even my big printer. Minor detail though. Though having to browse through the images on an SD card gets aggravating using this > old school method.

Connecting to my iPhone 6 was easy... but connecting my computer gave me a little road block ---i was not clear on what's the access point was. Nothing that a quick google search didn't come up with the answer: search "selphy access point manual" (PS using a macbook air, no CD slot). Once I found the manual it was easy from there.

I think the photo I print from my computer is absolutely BETTER than the one i print from direct from the SD card. I printed from my phone too and it was great as well. I'm loving the CONVENIENCE of printing what i want!

I love sending postcard during my trip. I use to make sure to get some photos printed on-site and then make postcards out of it but finding photo printer in a foreign country is not always easy. So this little gem will be so awesome for the personalized postcard route. Love the crafting possibility! <3

I gave it a 4 star (because I expected crisp vivid photo) but i've changed that! I understand the compact size has its limit, its portability is awesome spec, and the pictures are very very good! Can't ask for better quality at such convenience. Have fun with it!

Well, count me in the 5 star group. I'm loving this thing.

I bought it so that I could have a "box of pictures" like when I was young (many of you aren't young enough to remember how pictures USED to be viewed lol...) We used to sit around the kitchen table and look through the shoebox full of pictures. We'd pass them around and talk about them...read what was written on the back...it was like a time capsule.

Very different from today's Flickr/instagram method.

This printer delivers..period. It's quick, easy to use, and the print quality is plenty good enough at 4x6 size. I have no complaints except that it's a bit touchy when setting up the wireless aspect but a call to Canon got that sorted out very quickly.

Great package! Final prints are not quite 6in long though, so be aware, it cuts off the very edge of the photo.

Great stuff

Paper produces near drugstore quality but much thinner than a Kodac

Good quality, but can't go overboard printing photos, paper is very expensive.

I love my selphy printer, and the paper/ink set is great. My only reason for not giving it 5 stars, is that it never seems that I have quite as much ink to print as many photos as the box says it should. I always end up with a pack or two of extra paper. However, the product works perfectly with my machine and gives a very high quality photo.

I originally purchased the canon selphy printer cp780 for my in-laws since they love taking pictures. I thought it would be useful, they asked me to take it back since they have a regular printer they can print pics on. I decided to keep it myself and love it!!! It prints great quality prints I can download onto an sd card and select what I want to print. If I want a single picture printed to mail to someone or take a cute shot of my grandkids into work I can in a few second print a quality picture. It prints in layers so no poor print quality any time I want to print photos. I love to order more refills from Amazon.com since I can get them more reasonably priced. I order the 108 pack with free S$H.One con about the printing, the picture if it is a close up shot, sometimes the full view is not on the print.I would recommend this printer to any person that takes pictures to share with family and friends. No trips to the photo kiask for me!!!

Love this printer...only down fall is that you have to change the roller in it after about ten pictures, it is is quite costly.

This printer has worked out wonderfully for my non-commercial photo booth. My party guests can watch their photo print while the next group takes photos. A few people have tried to grab it before it completed printing, but there were no ruined photos or errors yet. This printer uses special cartridges and lays down each color separately so it pulls the paper in and out of the printer 4 times. The paper is great and produces a wonderful commercial looking print. The perforation makes removing the extra part of the paper super easy. I've not had any luck with the wifi part of this, I always hook it up directly to the computer using a USB cord, but that could just be operator error.

PROS:
-Compact (W x L of an average book)
-Easy set up
-"WiFi" and direct connection options
-USB, SD card, and camera cable port
-Simple menu options
-Color options for printing (vivid, BW, sepia)
-Gloss seal is of quality, no fingerprints
-Convenient home printing to share simple prints with close family and friends

CONS
-Compromised image quality (see photo)
-Perforated edges on photo paper
-"WiFi" is inconsistent, have to keep re-connecting with each print run
-Will crop your photo without warning therefore wasting ink before you realize half your face didn't make the cut
-Buttons are slow to respond, I usually press every button twice

Overall I think this suits the average household with standard photo printing needs. My parents for instance, do not care about image quality or color. They wouldn't notice things like that. For me personally I say 3 stars but I give it a 4 because I think most people would be happy with it.

Okay, so the photos aren't the highest quality, and the setup is oddly lengthy and complicated (pairing with phone isn't an intuitive out-of-the-box sort of thing), but once it's working it's really, really fun. Small footprint, and individual prints aren't that expensive if you buy in bulk. I love it because I have more than a decade of photos that I've never printed, and this makes it easy to print out your favorite photos. Terrific if you have kids with school projects (no more running to Walgreens to print out photos for their posters at the last minute) or if you just want to print quick photos to share with grandparents, etc. Print quality is better on photos with very good light.

Great little printer. Of course the prints do not have the contrast of professional prints. The biggest complaint is that the app does not let you rotate the picture, preview or crop. It really would not take a lot to modify the app to include these features. So you must have the photo exactly as you want it before you pull it into the app. Kind of defeats the purpose of instant. Basically for the first 5 prints heads kept getting cut off. Still like the little printer just hope Canon updates the app.

Why do they need the ears... Just give me a clean 4x6

Good product. This is my second time purchasing this paper so I'm pretty pleased. I will mostly but again. I have many photos I need to print from my phone.

I processed about 50 pictures in total and for the very ist time I had strings of bright color appear on five of the prints.....not satisfactory......when 10 PERCENT OF THE PICTURES ARE THROWN OUT

I love the prints that this canon printer makes. They are superior to any other 4X6 print at home I have ever seen. But I did have a problem with one cartridge. Somehow the dry ink ribbon jammed and tore apart inside the printer. I lost the whole cartridge because if it. The cartridge can only go in one way. Push it in and it locks, then slack is taken up on the real, and it is ready to print. on the third print, something happened and the ribbon melted to the 4X6 paper. The unit was jammed, and since it is sealed, after turning it off and on, I could pull out all the ribbon and start with a new cartridge. I lost the ribbon to make 37 more prints.

The kits comes with three thermal transfer ribbons and three packs of paper. Depending on how much color you need per-photo you can get 33 per-pack and most likely 100 per-kit. I link this better than ink which is wasted and if you let the printer sit too long, the heads clog. I just wish it cost less ... your much better off taking your photos to CVS, Snapfish, Wallmart ..etc.

I have had my Selphy for 2 years now and overall it is a handy printer. However, what people need to know is that every time you turn the unit off and turn it back on, it loads the ink for one picture. That is, you lose that ink and your ink to paper ratio gets off over time. You eventually start running out of ink before you run out of paper. I called Cannon to find out what was happening-that I was accumulating tons of paper but running out of ink. They informed me that the machine does this and I should leave the unit on (print as many photos as possible in one sitting) if I am to not waste ink. Right now I have tons of paper that will probubly never get used because cannon will not sell ink apart from paper. Very Wasteful! FYI

I've had this printer for about two years now. It just stopped working. Powers up and leaves me at a blank screen. Can't do anything. Worked really well when I first got it. I'm not sure what is wrong with it. Printed really good pictures. Fast. Very convenient to have at home.

Bought and used this in a fundraiser. It worked great, without needing to be plugged in to AC but be aware that the battery and charger does not come with the unit. More $$$ but worth it. The paper is expensive but you factor this into the price of the photography you are doing. Over all, a good solid small portable printer. So why the three stars? Most events do not have a wyfi network connection and, for the very Life of me, i could not get the airbridge or any other way to send pictures to the unit except through an SD card. I really wanted to use my Iphone and press PRINT. I had several very smart people look into it and all I got was scratched heads and defeated reasons for buying this printer. If anyone got it to send pictures to this printer without wyfi PLEASE let me know!! Thanks!

I was hoping it would have a direct connect USB cable so that I would not have to download the app on each smartphone that wanted to print.I am trying to contact Canon for the cable but it not as easy as I thought.The one photo did print was good color quality, however, it was cropped and not exactly as seen on my phone or the printer display.I will work with it some more tonight, stand by.

This printer was almost everything that I needed. I bought it to do party favor for the guests at my Grandma's upcoming birthday party but it just doesn't quite make the cut.Pros: Quick printing even from all types of devices; direct Wifi; black exterior; simple setup; watching the printer; waterproof printsCons: The only true con for me is the major desaturation of images.If you use IG or other filter heavy apps, this is probably not a big deal for you. Since we're using the pictures with the party favors, we want them to print true to color.If Canon had a solution for the desaturation, I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. Until then, it's back to Amazon!

This printer is great for casual use and if you are not particularly picky about your photo quality.The photo paper that feeds through this prints slightly smaller than 4x6. It's frustrating because the photo prints as a 4x6 image but there are perforated sides to tear off and those go through the printed image. The actual photo size is 3mm short on the long side. I got this printer to use with Project Life which has photo pockets specifically at 4x6, and these photos are slightly too loose and you can see gaps through the photo pages. Also, if you use these in photo frames, they will be slightly too small. I know this is the printer review and not the photo paper, but since Canon specifically states to use this photo paper, I feel like I need to include this in the review.The photo quality is great for an at home printer. I've printed photos before on all-in-one printers and this prints quality photos quickly and smoothly with no drying time. The machine feeds the paper through 4 times and puts layers of color on before finishing. I had little to no lag time in printing.However, the quality is not up to speed with those you order through an online/store retailers. Photos I order online and have shipped to my home are crisp quality. Photos printed with the SELPHY come out nicely but are not very crisp, glossy and the colors are not as vibrant.PROS: very convenient home use, quick prints without lag, no drying time, able to crop photos on screen, usb/sd card connectivityCONS: expensive photo paper required, prints are slightly smaller than 4x6, colors are not vibrant, photos are not as crisp as professional quality, not all photos are compatible with the display view on printer

one of the ink rolls got to hot and jammed my printer

The product works just fine... But I gave it two stars because the printer that uses this ink and paper eats up the ink every time you turn the printer on so there is never enough ink to facilitate the paper so you are with tons of paper but no ink. Feeling ripped off! They need to correct this or add another ink cartridge with each box!

Dude, this selphy printer sucks! The quality of the pics is bs. I mean this package is great. You get a good amount of stuff for a reasonable price but the prints themselves look like dook if you ask me.It's not this product's fault that all the pics look like crap.

I purchased this item and was doing a photo booth for a an event. There was a piece of paper in the middle of one of the stack of papers that should not have been there. I caused my printer to jam and it took us 30 minutes to unjam, which cause us to get very behind in our printing of the photos. Because of the jam of many photos due to the paper that should not have been in the middle of the stack, we lost 2-3 piece of photo paper. I was unable to find a way to contact the seller to discuss replace of this item. If the owner would like to contact me and make a mends, I would be happy to rewrite this review.

Not so great of quality paper with weird, tear-off edges. Okay for the price I suppose, but not the quality that I like in my prints.

OK

Apparently 5 minutes on Google before buying would have saved me some post Christmas frustration. This device is NOT compatible with Windows 8,10, or recent iOS devices. Despite the sales pitch our iPhones won't recognize it, even with either of the Canon phone apps. The drivers disk that comes with it won't even help your computer find this brick. The Canon web-site is also no help. Click the drivers button all you want for this printer and nothing will happen. What's even more jacked is the 10 year old HP Photosmart this was supposed to replace has no problems with Windows 10.Update: I dug out an old USB mini cable (not Android/Kindle type) and plugged it in to get it my PC to recognize it but there's still no way for my Windows 10 PC and laptop to see it via wireless. I've tried the Canon Selphy app on both mine and my wife's 4S iPhones (ios 9 & 7 respectively) and neither can see it either. But our Samsung Galaxy tab has no problem assessing it. The test photo we printed from our PC via the USB cable looked great so we'll be keeping it after all due lack of a similar competitor. Canon seriously needs to step up their product support.

I bought this printer to print quality pictures on the go. I was excited since I was spending so much money, and this appeared to be a dedicated photo printers by one of the world leaders in manufacturing camera and printers, i.e. Canon. That said, I was kind of disappointed. When I printed the first picture, I noted some change in the colors compared to the original picture. I didn't give up. I read the entire manual and learnt about various options and features to adjust brightness and etc. I explored almost all of them. To the point that I ran out of paper. Unfortunately, even the best-quality print which looked closest to the original picture was not satisfactory to me. Bear in mind, I did the Math and it would cost me almost double for printing on this printer compared to having them developed at a big box retail store, however, that I was willing to pay, if the quality was good enough. Sadly, it was not. No need to post the pictures. I notices some other customer posted some picture side by side with the actual picture. I arrived at the same conclusion. Let me say, I confirm those pictures. The quality of the pictures on this dedicated-for-printing lacks too much from the original picture, at least for me that was the case. I wish it worked out. It could be a huge convenience. Sadly ended up returning the item.

I have a Canon Selphy ES30 that I'd still be using were it not for the fact that Canon has not produced drivers compatible with versions of Mac OSXbeyond OSX 10.4 for the ES30. I thought this would be a good replacement, even though Canon doesn't offer drivers for it that are compatible with OSX beyond version 10.8. I was wrong. It is incredibly slow (compared to the Selphy ES30, which is no speed demon). I don't know if that has anything to do with the use of a wireless connection. It shouldn't, since the printer sits less than three feet from the wireless router. I just dug out a USB cable (no, Canon doesn't include one with the printer) to see if a USB connection will speed up the transfer of the photo image from computer to printer.But I could live with the snail's pace if the print quality matched that of the ES30. The prints I've gotten so far are quite washed out. They are definitely inferior to the ones produced by the ES30. (And the printer is out of ink after only six prints. It's a teaser ink cartridge. You'll need a regular one almost immediately.)In summary, had I known how this printer works in practice, I wouldn't have bought it.

I purchased this printer to print pictures at home for scrapbooking after reading several positive reviews. It is a neat idea - and I like the convenience of it; however, the quality of the prints is not that great, it's not even good really. It was easy to download the app to my phone and print pictures; however, the app does not allow for any edits. If your picture is the wrong size - you can't change it - and thus it will print either cropped off or zoomed in too much. You can only print horizontal pictures. The photos come out slightly blurry - as I said - the quality is just not that great and I cannot use the pictures for Project Life scrapbooking as intended. Having said all that, we are going to keep the printer because we have already used it on three separate occasions to print pictures for our kids school projects/posters (where the quality just doesn't really matter and if the formatting/size prints out goofy we can just select another picture to print and try again). All in all - definitely disappointed in this printer and probably would not buy again. - Jen

For such a small printer, it is complicated to set up. I have a Mac, and the instructions were unclear. After struggling for about half an hour, I called Canon and the techs there had no idea what to tell me. In addition, they failed to listen to what I was telling them. For example, I tried several times to say I had my own router and they kept telling me to contact my service provider for the router number. In the end, I was dismissed with a suggestion that I contact Apple and have their techs try a hierarchy of different things, including breaching my firewall, which they assured me would be no problem. Apple's techs were able to solve my problem in just a few minutes. For one thing, they were familiar with BOTH of the methods in the manual for connecting wirelessly to an Apple/Mac wireless network. What they told me to do was already in the manual; they just clarified the process. They immediately threw out all the outlandish ideas that the Canon tech had to "consult" his superiors to get. But that's just the tech service. I found that the photos are relatively sharp, but the coloration is poor. The same photo printed on my 4 in 1 HP printer comes out much more vibrant and true to the original than on this Selphy. For Canon, and for a dedicated photo printer, this is very disappointing. The printer is also clunky to use because of the paper tray that extends out so far. It isn't as compact as it looks. Would not purchase again or recommend to others.

The reason i'm giving this two stars is that it constantly need to be reinstalled. We got this for our wedding and had everything working perfectly a week before... Then on the day we needed it most nothing. Spent over an hour trying to get it to work (a group of engineers trying to trouble shoot this thing) end up giving up. After coming home just uninstalled the whole thing and tried re-installing it magically starts working again. No other fix would work (wired or wireless), trust me we tried everything... This has happened 5 more times on all different computers and tablets. Have to uninstall then reinstall then works great... Wish I had known to do this on our wedding. Prints greats once you get it working. Pretty much have to reinstall it every-time you want to use it. A lot of hassle.

first of all the ribbon cartridge lasts about 8 to ten photos MAXIMUM and there is way more paper than ink. Its a very costly way to supply a canon selphy printer a terrible disservice to its customers as the ink does not last very long at all

Never ordered

has 3 cartridges in it but when I went to put the 2nd one in printer the printer said no toner, then I opened and put in the 3rd cartridge and it said no in again, so can't get them to work!

I wasted 2 ink cartridges because the 1 didn't work and the other one got stuck in the printer, we had to take the printer apart to get it out. I had the printer for a while and never had issues. I usually buy the replacements at the store and I figured try online that was a mistake.

I ordered 5 packes of ink & paper for my selfie printer, The last packet I opened one of the ink carterage had no color it was all clear paper inside had no color very disappointed because I took it to Okla. with me to visit my Sister & when I tried to print pictures my machine kept saying the ink carterage was empty, I knew it was not suppose to be empty because I had just opened it. Thanks sincerely Carol Smith

ink cartridges only prints 5 sheets, I feel cheated and would like to claim the product. I bought 108 pictures and I sold 3 colors 5 each.

I've been using this printer for 3 years. It used to work great. Now it won't print anymore and I keep getting errors such as "incorrect paper size" or "paper jam", etc. although I bought the print papers straight from Canon.P.S. I found a tip online that worked for me. "I had the same problem after turning on the printer for the first time after several months of not using it. Finally the solution was cleaning the little gray rolling parts that pull the paper in. After having removed the dust it worked like a charm." Thank you MartaS from ifixit dot com.

I tried to like this product, however like most printers, it ended up breaking on us in multiple ways. The photo paper will not feed properly anymore, you have to manually push the paper in so the feeder will catch it. Sometimes the prints come out discolored. The last straw was when it said to replace the cartridge as it was empty - yet we had just put a new cartridge in! Will try another brand next time around.

My package came with stains. It looked like somebody had spilt melted wax of candy on the package. The package had been previously opened and was missing a cord that it need to turn on. I attached a photo of one of the stains. I really expected a lot better from a product and a store that had decent ratings.

Great printer but went bad less that a year after buying it

I was able to use this printer, probably about 20 times, in the whole 2 years I've owned it. Tried using this tonight and it gives me different errors. (paper jam, wrong size, etc.) Also, upgraded my computer, that now is running windows 10. This product does not work well on the newer operating system... To be honest, I'm not sure if it works at all. Spoke to someone in technical support and we tried to print using my phone. (android) still would give me the same errors. Disappointed that we spent over a hundred dollars, with the cost of, ink, paper and the cost of the machine only to get maybe 20 prints.Just be warned that if you are using a newer operating system (Windows 10) this might not be for you. Maybe others have had better luck with the machine lasting longer than mine. I can only tell you about my experience.

First, its awesome for a photo printer. However - BIG however - just bought a computer and laptop (with Windows 8 and 10) and this printer cannot work with these new operating systems! Be warned: you will spend a lot on this machine and Canon will not support, offer drivers or a replacement that will work with 8, 8.1 or 10. HUGELY bad customer service if you ask me and guarantees that I will not buy another Canon.I have the email from Canon saying they "chose not to support" the new OS - just like that. Really?!?! So this expensive printer is now a paperweight. Great. Last Canon for me!