Canon - IVY 2 Mini Photo Printer

I have had the HP sprocket and Canon Ivy 2. Both worked fine. I liked the Canon 2 over the sprocket though for color of my photos though neither were perfect. My Canon does occasionally have issues where it tells me I'm out of paper and won't print. But it has paper and nothing I do fixes it. I leave it alone and just try again later and it prints fine again. I did recently get a Polaroid Hi Print. Print quality I think is better than the Sprocket and Ivy. And I like that the paper isn't Zink so it is much thinner. It's still sticker paper so perfect for journaling. Of the 3, Canon has the easies app to use and you don't need a separate app to do a collage to be print more than 1 photo on one sticker paper.

Canon ivy 2 is the simplest, but it depends on the look youre going for. Instax also makes just photo printers, kodak, the slephy by canon ect. Take a look at each one and decide what you think looks best. I prefer no boarders so I went with an ivy also the sheets are sticker paper, but I do love the quality of prints form my old instax wide printer:)

I made a tiny review with pictures on my profile. I have both printers. If you "fix" the pictures before sending them to the printer, the Canon Ivy does great but it's gray tinted and a lot less bright than the high print. The High print is really pretty, thinner and so nice but the paper doesn't stick as well on the pages. The other negative is that you can't do multiple pictures in one print. Sorry for my English. I'm not doing well these days.

canon ivy is what i use! i love it

Yes and I think that's why the quality is so low.

Polaroïd hi-print and Canon Ivy. I like them both! I have on my profile the difference between the two. The hi-print are bigger so they will take a lot of your free space in your A6 but I still use it. I sometimes do collage on my Canon ivy but print it on my Hi-print and cut them since you can't do collage with the hi-print. https://www.reddit.com/r/hobonichi/s/8Xkj9lGHnN My opinions changed since I made that post but the pictures are true to life.

I have a thermal printer, if you're okay with them fading over time and you're fine with black and white photos with less detail, it's an affordable option. It's also fun to print out little line drawings and then cut them out to use as stickers. I used to use it for photos but now I mostly just use it for random lists and little drawings, I rarely use it though, it pretty much collects dust. I got the Canon Ivy2 for photos in December though and really love it, I also have the Canon Selphy for 4*6 prints I got before the Ivy and I still use it as well. I find I enjoy the color prints more vs the thermal and I like that I don't have to worry about them fading. I also like that I can print multiple photos on one sheet and can cut them out. If you are on a budget and just want to print photos and don't care about portability you could just use an inkjet printer?

i love adding photos to my journal to capture events especially when i don't want to write much. I find it essential on days when i just want to fill pages. i use a canon ivy mini printer. not the brightest, but it does the job.

I use the Cannon Ivy 2 https://a.co/d/f2Hp3F1

so I got the HP sprocket and wasn't so happy and the photo quality. the pictures were coming out very saturated and i would have to edit the photo before printing. i was still not a fan bc the editing still didn't look right (i also don't know much about editing with light exposure) so i returned it and got the Canon Ivy. I really like it. while some of the photo prints do come out a little saturated, it's not as bad as the HP sprocket (in my opinion) I also figured out that since this photo printers rely on thermal printing instead of inks, when you are loading the paper to the Canon, it fits i think 10 in the machine at once, so say you only print 2 photos for the day and the three days later you print 2 more photos (i hope this makes sense) ((I don't print all my photos at once bc i junk journal through the week and get new ideas)) there will be a blue paper with the photos to load in the Canon and it's supposed to help with making the pictures come out nicer so I'll keep the blue piece of paper and load it back in for next time so my next photos will come out good. I probably confused you but look at tutorials on how to print and you'll see there's a blue piece of paper with the photos that will come out first before you start printing.

Agreed! The quality on the hi-print is much way better than the canon ivy!

Hello everyone! Not too long ago I made a post on asking for portable printer recommendations and many of you offered great options! I had previously bought the canon ivy but did not like the picture quality. I decided to go with the Polaroid hi-print! The one on the left is the Polaroid and the one on the right is the canon. The Polaroid definitely beats the canon. It also offers sticky pack prints! Just what I was looking for ☺️ and as you can see it's slightly bigger. If you're wondering, the canon ivy does weigh less than the Polaroid. The Polaroid has a little bit more weight to it but it's nothing to worry about when traveling with it. I'll be returning the canon ivy and keeping the Polaroid hi-print. Thank you all for your help and recommendations!

I had the Canon Ivy (1) and then a few months ago I replaced it with the HP Sprocket 2x3. I prefer the Sprocket a little bit more, it prints more warm. Also I would have issues with the Ivy connecting to my phone. As long as you have the blue scan card for your printer, you can use whatever paper you find cheaper.

I got the Canon Ivy 2 and the stickers are pretty good. I don't think they're as good as polaroids, but they're quick, easy, and the stickers look nice.

I find it's easier to find refills for the ivy. I had hp first and couldn't find refills locally.

I always adjust colors before printing to try to combat this, I have an ivy and turn up brightness contrast saturation and will color correct if needed. I find the pictures come out blue and dark if I don't.

I have the Canon 1500 and the Canon Ivy. They're both great for their intended uses. I take the Canon Ivy with me just about every time I travel. I've owned it 3.5 years at this point and the battery needs charged more often, but it still works great!

they do but i find it to be pretty simple! i dont have much experience with printers and things but you basically just slide the cover off and place the stack of paper/sheets in there. you can buy them in packs of like 20 or 50 i believe! i think they give you a little blue piece of paper thats like a calibrating/test sheet that you just set on top of the other photo papers and run that through first. then you use an app to do the printing and editing!

I really like my Canon Ivy because I can get home from an event and immediately have the photos printed into stickers, without having to run an errand to get photos printed. It is expensive but I use it sparingly (I only print photos for maybe one out of every 5 spreads) so it's worth it to me. If your junk journaling includes more photos maybe printing at Walgreens would work better for you.

I bought the Canon ivy in 2022 and had issues with it since I got it. Mine won't grab the paper to print on it. Doesn't matter if there's more of the paper than there should be or if it's less. It's so frustrating!! I didn't use it at all last year because it didn't work

I've used the Canon Ivy mini photo printer for a few years and love it for journal photos. It prints on sticker paper, so very easy to print and stick in my journal.

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I've had mine probably around a year? I haven't noticed any problems with fading but since they're in a closed book I haven't been too worried. The app doesn't have a way to make collage photos like the Canon Ivy does, their app is great but the prints were hideous and depressing because they all have a vintage blue cast. I usually make the ones I want in InShot and export it pretty quickly.

I've used a Kodak Mini 2 Retro and the Canon Ivy 2nd generation. I like the image quality better on the Kodak, but the photos are larger and don't have a sticky back, and it is one of the only brands to use the 4 step printing system so they are the only ones who sell the paper, and it's expensive. I got the Canon Ivy to remedy the high cost of the photo paper. Because a lot of different printers use the ZINK process, it's easier to find paper and the pricing tends to be more competitive. Like I think I got a pack of 50 for the same cost as 10 of the Kodak papers. That said, I have found that the colours come out much less saturated and darker than I was expecting. I've only used it a couple of times so far but I plan on experimenting with adjusting the saturation and brightness to try to counteract that next time.

I also have the canon ivy 2 for journaling. The quality reminds me of disposable camera picture quality from back in the day, which I don't mind. Makes everything look nostalgic. If I print pictures that aren't in full brightness though, then the shadows can look pretty dark so I apply the soft light filter before printing any darker/night shots.

I just received my new canon ivy 2 yesterday and I'm not so crazy about the quality of the pictures. I went for the canon cause it had sticky back paper and because I wanted the portable printer in white. Are there better recommendations than canon ivy? Preferably with sticky back since I want to use them for journaling. I heard the Kodak retro has really good quality but they don't offer sticky back paper. Has anyone used double sided sticky tape to place them in their journals? And if so, how well does it stay in place?