Canon - SELPHY CP1500

The selphy I have is a 4x6 printer. Not the best size for an A6. My pocket printer is a Kodak Retro Mini 2 (dye sublimation) and I've had it 2.5 years (I love it so much) after much disappointment with several zink printers. Hope this helps.

I use a Canon Selphy CP1500 fo casual printing. It's good enough for me but has it's limitations. Colour accuracy and dynamic range is a bit limited. But again, good enough for most applications like photoalbums and to pin them on the wall or share them. It can be used as a portable printer, but the original battery for it is ridiculously expensive (iirc about 1-2 time the price of the printer). So get a thirdparty one for a few bucks or just use it with it's poweradapter. And print from the SD Card (you can find a colour profile somewhere for it) IIRC, increases colour accuracy.

The sprocket leaves rly strong pink tiny on the picture, and it gets worse over time. I've had mine for five years and the pictures come out completely pink now. I have a Canon Selphy now, not very mini but super worth it because I can just print a collage to get smaller pictures.

for anyone looking into this the canon selphy is a great lil printer!

No way. I love printing. I have the Canon Selphy CP1500

You're asking about price per print, *including* the amortized cost of the printer. In the long run, ink and paper costs always dominate. Short term however, the price of the printer dominates. A more expensive printer, such as the Epson ET8550, will have very good long term cost, but the initial investment is steep. A less expensive printer, such as a Canon SELPHY, will have a modest initial price, but price per picture adds up much faster. The least expensive printer is Walgreen's, with no up-front cost, but high ongoing cost. A second consideration is quality. The more expensive the printer, the higher the print quality. The ET8550 will outperform Walgreens, producing richer colors and more detail. A professional printer such as the Canon Pro 1200, will be even better. The SELPHY does not match Walgreens. And then there's effort. Walgreens takes your JPEGs and prints them. SELPHY does, too. But a dedicated printer will require some fiddling with a computer to get good results. On the flip side, you get to play with various paper types and sizes. But make no mistake, this is extra effort. Personally, I went with a Canon Pro 200, which is roughly equivalent to the Epson ET8550, but cheaper to buy and more expensive to operate. It's all a matter of how much do you intend to print. I also have a much cheaper Epson XP8500, which prints better photos than the SELPHY, for less money, but can't match the Pro 200. I also have a SELPHY, which is nice for what it is, but can't match Walgreen. And I have an INSTAX printer, which fits in my pocket and prints adorable little polaroids. But quality can't match even the SELPHY. Depending on your needs, all of the mentioned printers are a good purchase. In your case, I'd probably recommend the Epson XP8800 as a cheap, good quality photo printer. You'll be able to buy six full ink replacements before you'll reach the cost of the ET8550, which should take several years. If you'd like to splurge, the ET8550 is definitely the better printer, with lower ink costs. And keep in mind that ink is only one part of the running costs. It's easy to get swept up in the marketing that an ecotank printer makes printing "free". But that's ignoring paper costs, which in my experience dominate printing costs in the long run. First party paper is reliable and good, but offers only limited variations. Third party paper requires matching printer profiles, which can be hard to come by for non-professional printers such as the XP8800 (but some paper manufacturers (Photospeed) profile for free, and there are cheap services for creating bespoke profiles).

Essentially, there are 4x6 dye-sub printers like the SELPHY CP1500, the mini dye-subs like the QX10, Zink printers, and INSTAX printers. Stay away from the mini dye-subs. My QX10 broke twice in two weeks, and and each time wasted an entire ink cartridge. They are trash. The other options work well. The big SELPHY is decent quality and large, but slow and loud and not really all that portable. Zink is faster and portable and prints on paper. INSTAX is much faster, least good quality, but with analog charm.

I love the Canon Selphy CP1500 for printing some favorites every few weeks or two.

I have a CP1500 that I use with my x100vi and iPhone photos - it's a great for how inexpensive it is and the cost per photo is very low. I end up having to boost the brightness also, and I'm never sure about color fidelity - but it's not a big deal for just hobby printing. One annoying thing - they used to have a bookmark maker feature in their app that was cool. You could assemble 4-5 photos or so and make 2 bookmarks out of a single photo sheet. It was fun and I made a bunch. But annoyingly they removed it from their app in recent updates!

I got a Canon SELPHY CP1500 for Christmas last year and really liked the quality of the prints. Mind you my husband is a photographer so most of the time I print photos he has taken with his fancy cameras, so I can't really attest to iPhone photo quality when they print... but I'm sure if you have one of the later iPhone models, it's good enough!

I have an HP Sprocket that prints 2" x 3" and a Canon Selphy that prints 4" x 6" The quality of photo printing on the Canon is far superior to the Sprocket, and if you're looking for a 2" x 3" sized photo, you can use the "collage" feature to print 2 on one sheet.

I would buy a canon Selphy printer (CP1500) and print out like 2 or 3 of his favorites as an appetizer for what he can print with it. And on top of that, get one larger print from a company to hang up on the wall.

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.

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.

Hmmm the sizes are kind of fixed, but maybe you can use another app to put all 3 images on one page and then print it on the app? There is a collage option though, where you can select 3 or 4 images that will print in the Photo Booth format so it's a strip of images like a bookmark. [Here's part of the manual explaining how to get to the that function if you want to see what I mean.](https://cam.start.canon/en/P001/manual/html/UG-02_Print_Card_0040.html)

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

DIY at my own leisure with instant gratification is so much more appealing than sending off to a lab halfway across the country. Not that there's anything wrong in the slightest with using mpix or whoever else, but a few cents per print... who cares? FYI there are always a couple of these floating around Craigslist/FB Marketplace in my area, I got mine for like $50.

I'm really liking the Canon Selphy CP1500.

I use Canon Selphy CP1500 and am very happy with it. Best purchase!

The Canon SELPHY is amazing quality! It's not as easy as some of the smaller printers to whip out but that's OK because the quality. I'm a wedding photographer and I also use it to print out little photo albums for my clients, it's that good!

For my cousin's sweet 16, we used the Halo app on an iPad and connected it to the Canon Selphy CP1500, and everything turned out perfectly! We printed two copies of each photo-one for guests to take home and the other for the guestbook, where family and friends could leave messages for the birthday girl. I'd consider using an iPad instead of a laptop. It would be easier to attach to a tripod, and with the Halo app, the screen locks, so guests can't browse through your iPad.

Canon Selphy. It's bigger than the pocket printers but still very small. It prints onto 6x4" paper so you can fit four 2x3" pictures on it, making it more cost effective than the pocket printers. I have both and much prefer the Selphy because the colours are amazing and have a longer life.

the Canon Selphy has smaller sized sticker paper but I usually just print a collage and then cut out photos. I have one of those rounded corner punches which I think looks cute

I have a sprocket and the Canon SELPHY CP1500. I use the SELPHY a lot more, I like how it prints better and that there are different size options. It doesn't have sticky back paper but that doesn't bother me I always have one of those sticky roll-ons or sticky tabs on me. For quick jobs I use the sprocket.

I have both an HP Sprocket and a Canon SELPHY. The Sprocket is definitely easier and more convenient to use however the photos look like ass and the paper is super expensive. The Canon SELPHY is overall cheaper and the pictures actually look really good however it is annoying to cut/tape all of the photos. Overall I prefer the Canon.

Exactly as mentioned above; - CP1500 is perfect for 10x15 prints and it is cheap to run. approx 0.33€/print - G550 or G650 are a great option if you don't want to deal with any cartridge printers as they both work work bottled ink - PRO-1100 seems overkill in this scenario, it prints up to A2 - PRO-200S or PRO-310 are better option as they give you more control over your prints with more colors to work with. Or if you find a PRO-300 on the cheap. Go for that. They are both cartridge printers. The cost of running is higher the a G650 but you do get better color reproduction. I hope this helps!

I've got a Kodak and honestly all of the mini printers have colour issues of some sort. The only advantage they have is that they use sticker paper. I recently bought a Canon Selphy and that's a little bigger but the colours are so much better

I'm not sure where you heard that the printer is zinc. Canon SELPHY (of all types) use dye sublimation.

Only 4x6? Canon has you covered, my friend, with the Canon CP1500. It's a dye sublimation printer, not an inkjet, but it'll do the job. It's also the same technology as many photo labs use for 4x6 prints, just in a smaller housing. A proper inkjet photo printer with archival ink would be something like the Canon Pro-200s that's at like $550.

PS: basically your only decent option unless you want to invest _way_ more

I've had the Canon Ivy 2 for 2.5 years now. The color is very inconsistent, I assume it has to do with the paper refills you get. I mostly use my Canon SELPHY 1500 and LOVE it. I understand that it isn't portable, though. Just had to put the shout out for it. It's great.

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!

OP, I use the G550 megatank A4 printer and it's decent for the price and very cheap to run. And take a look at the CP1500 for a small portable printer that can do 10x15cm.

Same same! It's my favorite too. And since learning how to remove the backing paper, gluing in pics doesn't add to chonk

I have not. I see people saying that in reviews a lot though. Im in the opinion these pictures are just in my planners or journals that other people don't see. If I want the higher picture quality I use my Canon 1500 or our inkjet bigger office printer.

I tried and returned the HP Sprocket. I then tried and returned the Kodak photo printer. I tried and kept the Canon Selphy. Taking the HP Sprocket out of the discussion, because it's not really comparable to the other two. I had a photo that was taken by a very good photographer (not a professional, but "advanced hobbyist.") I printed each of them and put them side by side. The color and quality of the photo printed on the Selphy was far superior. While the price of the printer itself is higher than the others, the paper and ink for the Canon are cheaper than the Kodak. I had some trouble connecting to the Selphy printer. Honestly, it was kind of a pain. This is probably a "user issue," in that I have a very low patience level for "tech stuff." If you have a teenager or college student handy, they would probably have no problem. I would recommend the Selphy. One thing to note, you can't put the Selphy against the wall. It needs about 4 inches of extra space in the back and 8 inches in the front. It takes up a little more space sitting on a desk than I expected.

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.

How mini do you want it? I had an hp sprocket plus which had a great form factor and sticker paper, but I absolutely hated the quality of the prints. And apparently that kind of "zink" technology isn't great for longevity (but IME, the prints I put in my bujo 7 years ago still look the same). I posted a sample of the hp sprocket print to the hp support forum to see if this was normal; I got a replacement printer and it had the same issue. https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Sprocket/Is-this-normal-print-quality/td-p/6819181 I just recently got a Canon SELPHY cp1500 which is much larger and not for portable use, but I'm quite happy with it in terms of print quality (and the price per print is a lot lower than the Canon SELPHY qx20 which was the other model I was considering). The regular paper is 4x6" large and the cost is about 30c per print. I saw online people will peel off the backing of the regular paper for the cp1500 and glue or use adhesive runner tape to stick to journal pages. From my research, the cp1500 can print on sticker paper with a $15 add on tray, but only 2x3" size or 2x2" (or some really mini ones that are 8 per page and seem to be postage stamp sized), but those papers cost about 50c per print and the papers are often out of stock. The qx20 has sticker paper either 2x3" or 3x3" but they are around 80c per print.