Canon - SELPHY CP1500

I just had to print a photo for our daughter's school yesterday and if I remember correctly, it wasn't as wide. The photos are 100x148 which is slightly less than a 4x6

Canon Selphy does a fantastic job. I love mine. A little write up here... [A Small Printer - by Doug Morse - Morse Brothers Studios](https://morsebrosstudios.ghost.io/a-small-printer/)

I'm a clueless German; we have no Walgreens here. Please specify your current workflow and needs. Printing at home is usually far(!) from cost efficient. If I need prints, just in general, I usually wire them to CEWE, for picking them up at my local drug store, after a promised week, to which I can walk, while the rented washing machine in my attic is running. I can also buy some groceries on that trip, so I really have zero extra cost for shipping or commuting. For SRA3 laser prints I'd rely on work. They have two Minolta lasers. I do *own* a Canon Selphy. I haven't unboxed it yet. Imagined use case: To need a postcard (-x) sized color print *NOW(!)*. Dyesubs are great at sitting around unused, while inkjets reguire power and regular flushing routines, that might break my neck over time. - Speed aside the printer offers no benefits and is at least 3x as expensive to operate.

I own one but I haven't even unboxed it. A Selphy is a wonderful machine to once in a blue moon or like every week? print an entire postcard. Dye sub tech is excellent for sitting around and doing nothing; i.e you 'll go through some hassle to revive a fountain pen, you used a year ago, but your Selphy will just fire up. Print quality seems decent and the results aren't overly sensitive / quite abusable. But: Prints *are* expensive. If you are a penny pincher, with all the time in the world: Order from DM. If you are an artist: Print bigger! IMHO Selpys are intended to serve as a Polaroid substitute; bring yours somewhere, give people pictures, right in the spot. (You need to buy an extra battery, to print in the field). A wealthy friend of mine uses his Selphy at home. Mine is intended to serve in a pinch.

How portable do you mean or want? - 30 years ago i jobbed for a company that hauled roll fed inkjet plotters to architects. We were two on the van and the plotters quite light (compared to a 4c Heidelberg of at least 2.8t). An apparently capable A4 desktop color laser weighs just 35kg; i.e. I could move it on my own (but have no clue how results compare to the bigger ones, doing photo books and calendars at work). Just stressing: A big inkjet can deliver awesome quality these days and color lasers are cost efficient. Myself I bought a Canon Selphy dyesub, doing postcards (sadly in 3/0) or smaller. - I'd rather have a 3/1, since my handwriting sucks, but... Operating cost will be comparably horrible, but it can sit around free of cost, unlike inkjets, that need regular flushing routines and aren't cheap to operate either Other niggles: Postcards are too tiny Some users reported issues with dust inside their machines. Its more or less "a Polaroid substitute toy" but a way to produce photos at home or elsewhere.

Canon Selphy forever. I spent years researching mini-printers. If you want your photos to last and be of the best quality for home prints, get a Selphy.

I was gifted a canon selphy last week. Its not bad. I'd compare it to the old school polaroid printouts, but better quality. Definitely would use it to smash out a quick edit and print to give away on the spot as a promo photo, But not the kind I'd frame and put on the wall. And thanks to the other commenter about the batteries, I'll look into those too.

This! I have Canon Selphy CP 1500 for standard 10x15 photos that I can customize in app printing for example 2 or 4 or 8 photos in the same print with standard photo paper AND the Canon Selphy QX20 with sticker paper. Love them both and never regret them, quality is great, I’m an amateur photographer and always had an eye for bad prints. They are of course not as professional printers, but quality is greater than zink printers.

Seconding the Selphy. It’s sick.

I have a canon selphy and it prints pretty nice little pics, the size you used to get at the one hour photo places. You can also get a battery for it (get the third part ones, the official one is way too expensive) it’s very portable. My links are being deleted? Anyways, look up canon selphy and Kastar 2 Battery + Charger for it. Whole package will be about 250. Get some extra paper (they come with color cartridges)

I’ve got both the cp1500 and the qx20. The latter went to Canada with me from the uk and worked really well. The cp1500 prints are better but it’s a bulky beast to be lugging around on airports etc. mine came in my hand luggage, on the Canadian and was great to write and capture photographs as the trip happened.

I’ve got both - I took the qx20 on a big trip to Canada this year and printed off photos as I went for a journal, mostly three to a sticker sheet so pretty small, but I knew I wouldn’t have time to do it when I got home. The photos are ok but not as good as the 1500. For portability it’s pretty good though.

Canon Selphy 1500 photoprinter, print about 10 a month. A couple of larger prints a year for the office or at home. And every trip I make ends up in a photoalbum