Canon SELPHY CP1500

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TL;DR: Simple, portable dye-sub; prints good but consumables costly.

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Last updated: Apr 28, 2026

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Reddit Icon1800treflowers
9 months ago

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

4 months ago

I have the selphy 1500 and it's legit. It packs down very small when not in use and the photo quality is really nice on the canon paper. I highly recommend it.

Reddit Icon40ftpocket
5 months ago

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/)

Reddit IconAlis86
9 months ago

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.

Reddit Iconalk3_sadghost
5 months ago

Seconding the Selphy. It’s sick.

Reddit Iconallmywhat
24 days ago

The canon SELPHY cp1500 is great. I use that for my photos. Out of the box it’s powered at the outlet but there is a battery you can get for it. The advantage is it allows you to do full size 4x6 prints

Reddit IconAndreinaAcv2
4 months ago

I have both. I stopped using Instax because of the cost of the film; CP1500 costs $33 for 108 postcard-sized sheets. What I usually do, if I want smaller photos, is print 2 or 4 per sheet, and they end up being a similar size to Instax Mini or Wide for 10% of the price. There's a Canon Selphy QX20 that prints Instax-sized photos, but the paper costs much more. I don't recommend Kodak ZINK or 3-step film; I've tried them, and they're terrible.

Reddit Iconangryslothbear
5 months ago

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)

Reddit Iconaniseedvan
6 months ago

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.

9 months ago

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.

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