Canon Selphy CP760 – Excellent Choice for Amateur Photographers

Pros

The Canon Selphy CP760 is an inexpensive printer with straightforward design and offers significant print speed and admirable print quality.

Cons

The Canon Selphy CP760 has got comparatively larger footprints for a “Compact” printer, and it doesn’t have any wireless accessories and index view.

Introduction

The Canon Selphy CP760 is the latest entrant in the Selphy streak of handy photo printers from Canon. The simple introduction to Canon Selphy CP760 will be an unadorned basic printer targeting small homes, children’s and the non-tech people who wants to have a printer for their photo printing, but doesn’t want to deal with the technicalities and complication of a desktop inkjet.

We had awesome time while testing Canon Selphy CP760; printing pictures on this printer is an enjoyable maneuver and it definitely is a restricted product with print size limited to maximum of 4 x 6 inches, but with its superb photo print quality and the instant indulgence that it gives, paying $100 for all this doesn’t seem heavy at all.

Design

The Canon Selphy CP760 in comparison to all the other inkjet printers is much smaller and the reason for this can be the fact that it doesn’t prints on standard sheets of paper. Measuring 3.3 x 7.9 inches (H x W) the printer can easily be carried in a bag without taking any serious irritation. But despite the compact size of Canon Selphy CP760 the printer isn’t actually travel-friendly, as you’ll have to pay another $50 for a wireless Bluetooth USB key.

The standard bundle for the printer comes with a wired power adapter, a few trial sheets of 4 x 6 inch paper and a paper cassette. The external paper input tray for the printer attaches externally and every printed paper is collected from the rear end of the printer, this whole assembly adds another foot to the dimensions of the printer’s hardware setup. On a whole you will require about a foot and a half to place the printer at your home or office, which comparatively is larger considering the fact that it is a “compact” photo printer.

Located at the top of the printer is a 2.5 inch TFT display for previewing the pictures before printing. Adjacent to the screen there are nine rubber buttons, these are used for navigation, while for accepting the media there is a media bay under, which accepts SD/MMC cards, Memory Sticks and Compact Flash/Microdrive. There also is a USB and PictBridge port given for any sort of direct printing from the digital camera.

The practically idiot-proof design of the Selphy makes, the printing immensely simple on the printer and all you need to do is simply plug-in your card in the right port and pres “Print”. There also are some other auto-editing options such as Portrait Image Optimize, Scene Select and Red-eye Elimination. A little disappointment here is the absence of an index and hence if you have loads of pictures for printing from your camera you won’t be able to see them before printing. This definitely is a small flaw to mention, but when you have to scroll through hundreds of Pictures it easily can be immensely irritating.

System Configuration

Starting price: $83.99
Manufacturer: Canon USA
Part Number: 2565B001
Printer Type: Compact photo printer, Dye sublimation – Color
Operating System Supported: Microsoft Windows Vista,   Apple MacOS X 10.5,   Apple MacOS X 10.2.8 – 10.4.x, Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
Built-in Devices: Preview screen
Dimensions (H x D x W): 7.9 x    5.6 x 3.3 inches
Weight: 2.2 lbs

Supported Flash Memory: miniSD , RS-MMC , Microdrive , miniSDHC , MultiMediaCard , Memory Stick , Memory Stick Duo , SD Memory Card , SDHC Memory Card , Memory Stick Pro , MultiMediaCardplus , CompactFlash Card , Memory Stick PRO Duo
Media Type: Business cards,   Photo paper,   Photo postcard paper, Photo stickers
Software Included: Drivers & Utilities, Canon ImageBrowser, Ulead Photo Express LE, Canon ZoomBrowser EX
Printer Features: Red eye reduction and Borderless printing
Connectivity Technology: Wired
Direct Printing Specifications: Canon Direct Print and PictBridge

Performance

Though speed exactly is not the forte of Dye-sublimation printers and they generally are slower than the laser and inkjet printers. But in our seed tests the Canon Selphy CP760 delivered significant speed and took 0.79 minutes for printer a photo, now this clearly is faster than the previous year’s Selphy CP740, Epson’s PictureMate Snap and PictureMate Pal PM200. So it’s pretty clear that the CP760 is comparatively fast, easy-to-use printer and that is exactly how it has been marketed. In terms of Photo quality as well the CP760 was ahead of competitions and we were really impressed to see that. If you are a home user or an amateur photographer then getting this printer is of great use and you definitely will enjoy printing on this.

Support

Canon Selphy CP760 comes with complete one year warranty along with a toll-free telephonic support. The online support is available as well and could be obtained at Canon’s Web Site containing accessories, FAQs, manual downloads, additional technical support and driver updates.

Word from the Experts

The Canon Selphy CP760 with its straightforward usability and simple plug-and-play functionality will make printing easy for you. Especially for $100 the Canon Selphy CP760 definitely is a great option to consider for amateur or home based photography enthusiasts.