Canon Selphy CP1500 Black Printer

For many years, my wife has complained that it is too difficult to print photos from her phone. So I bought this printer. My primary interest is printing photos directly from smartphones. The kids and the wife have their phones configured to be able to print directly through the printer.. everyone was really excited and happy about this ability. The prints are reasonably fast and the quality is good.. I have not attempted to connect this to a computer even though I have Windows and Linux boxes, I might eventually do that, but for now, I just wanted to be able to have a decent photograph that I liked on my phone and then be able to say print it in a way that's very easy to do.

I'll have to admit, I had my expectations low for this little printer but it really blew them out of the water. I come from using large format printers on heavyweight paper so I was expecting this printer to have a relatively low quality print with a decent resolution and the results speak for themselves! The photo paper is a nice thickness with a perfect amount of gloss that really helps the colors pop on those vibrant prints. Even though it is a dye sub printer, it still excels at printing high contrast black and white images too.

Excellent 4" x 6" printer! The prints from this are amazing with very good color, contrast and saturation. The app is easy to use. I'm looking forward to trying the stickers and hope to get the battery soon to make it fully portable. I already own the CP1200, which I also like, but this produces better prints in my opinion. And this uses the same trays, paper and cartridges that the CP1200 uses so I don't have to buy them. The printer is larger than the other portables like the Ivy, Instax and Sprocket but those only print 2" x 3" photos.