SELPHY QX20

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.

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.

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.

Look at dye sublimation instead of zink printers! The quality will be better. I have a canon SELPHY Qx20 which I love but there’s also Polaroid hi print and Kodak mini 3 retro. The cartridges are super easy to use and if you’re worried about the ink making a mess or something it’s not like that at all.

For me it is! I knew I definitely would not go order print photos and my regular printer at home is pretty inconsistent especially for color. It’s great for journaling but also for adding to gifts and cards too. I did extensive research (as I do on everything I ever buy) and I finally settled on the canon SELPHY qx20 for a couple reasons: 1) it’s dye sublimation so it’s supposed to last much longer than zink and be more color accurate. I have a friend with a sprocket and the colors just always look off and older ones have faded a bit 2) the paper is all sticker paper but you don’t have to peel it and it feels like a regular paper. 3) it can handle both the mini size photo as well as a square size you can buy that will look more like a traditional Polaroid CONS: more expensive than the others starting out but I don’t think the refills are much more than other companies Also probably bigger than the others but that’s also so it can handle the larger size photo paper Really depends on how often and for what purpose you’re using it for! Other ones I considered but decided against were the canon Ivy and Polaroid hi print.

I have the Canon Zoemini, the ZINK paper is super convenient for traveling plus the printer is tiny! Canon CP 1500 offers the pest print quality but it’s size make it better suited for desk use Canon QX20 is the good middle ground.