Canon - SELPHY CP1300

Having had both I’d either do an Instax camera - fun and one off… or a SELPHY mini printer. I have the CP1300 and it’s really very good. Cost is a massive barrier with the Instax printers so it’s hard to decide which of your thousands of photos you want to print. A camera meanwhile just gives you that cool one off photo that means something. Just my two cents

Bought a used cpl1300 for 30 usd. Works great 👍

I have the instax wide and the older CP1300 and the CP1300 is way better quality. The instax is better when traveling and printing out random pics for friends on trips. The quality of the pics is lower but still fun to have around.

I have a selphy 1300 (second hand for less than £50) which is identical (as far as prints are concerned)to the 1500 without some os and screen features. I also have a canon g650 A4 printer The selphy is brilliant for postcards, photos for the fridge etc... I have a memory scrap book which I use those photos. Quality is ok, it's fun. Requires a bit of altering of the settings to get colours right. The PIXMA g650 is for my "art" prints. Quality is phenomenal and the detail is another level. With some satin paper, I adore the prints and they really look "wow". Both have their use.

I have a 1300 and the picture quality is great.

The Selphy runs about 30 cents/4x6 print.

With a canon Selphey you can get 4 wallet size to a single 4x6 print. Super quality. With an app like PicFrame you can make mini collages. Don’t need to worry about ink drying out either.

I found a used cp1300 for $40 bucks. They tend to go for a bit more than that I found a steal, but secondhand and a generation prior is a good way to go!

Will reco Canon Selphy as well! We have the CP1300 version and I saw an old pic we printed in 2018 (I think?), maganda pa rin yung quality ng pic until now. Yun din yung last time na nagamit namin yung printer and when we tried printing pics last weekend lang, surprisingly, maayos pa rin siya. Kailangan lang iwipe yung rollers. 😊

I have a Selphy CP1300 and I like it, but... the cost of a print is at least 2x higher than what I would pay from CVS / Walmart / Shutterfly / Google / etc. and that's probably the route I'll go after using up the ink cartridges I have. The image quality is going to be very similar so it's tough to justify. An instax printer at least gives a unique look compared to the online / local photo printers.

They all suck. The inkjets suck for all the usual inkjet reasons, the dye-sub (e.g. Selphy) have less than pure colours and are a shit, etc. I like printing to Instax (the TONEZ) for instant tangible photography. I keep a Selphy CP1300 for quick prints when I just want to see something on paper or print at a social event. Everything else goes to the lab because the quality is better and the print cost is cheaper. Almost everything that goes to lab is for 8x10 or 8x12 and I wouldn't want to feed a hungry inkjet printing those all day.

For mini printers, I have the Kodak Mini 2 Retro, and the print quality is very good. The photos aren’t stickers, though, so you’ll need glue tape or photo corners to secure them in your journal. Also, the maximum collage layout is four photos on one sheet. I later bought a canon selphy cp1300, and I prefer it because of the quality and the ability to customise both the size and the number of photos in a collage. There’s also an option to use sticker paper (though it’s more expensive). Overall, I find it more flexible, especially since I mostly journal at home.