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We mainly got this little printer because we have lots of pictures online, but very few around our house. This printer works good. It produces very nice 4x6 and smaller images. The 4-to-a-sheet wallet size feature is a favorite of my daughter who trades pictures with her friends. If you don't need anything larger than a 4x6, this is a good printer.

I ordered this printer from Amazon,but I did not have time to check it out before packing it for vacation (2 weeks in the Philippines). I wanted to print pictures during the holidays for friends and family. This printer worked right out of the box and printed bright, sharp and colorful postcard size photos.
Pros:
Size and weight good for travel - Compact, Light (2lbs),Power Adapter for 110V and 220V.
Print quality is very good at (300x300)- Postcard (4x6) size prints. Prints from memory card, from camera cable, or PC.
Advance features - Menus are easy to navigate. Can print more than one photo per print paper. Printing 4 photos per paper makes good wallet size prints.
Cons:
*Recurring Cost per print*. About $30 per 108 prints - (30 cents/print). Limitations:
No cropping option in printer to resize photo. You must learn how to shoot full frame ala "Cartier-Benson" style.
Accepts only SD and Sony Memory card format. Double check your digital camera memory card before getting this printer.
Does not recognize USB flash drives. No recharge battery option.
Overall:
This is a good travel printer if all your printing needs can be meet by 4x6 size prints. Good initial value, but recurring cost for printer ink and paper can be expensive. Four stars.

I love my new little printer. I do a lot of Scrapbooking and the printer
is so convenient. Can print a picture whenever I need one. The quality of
the pictures is as good as the ones I have had printed at Photo Shops. My
husband goes on Mission Trips and when he goes the little children love to
have their pictures taken. He plans to take the printer with him when he goes again so he can print their pictures and give it to the kids.

If you absolutely have to do your own printing, this is a good printer to buy. Bottom line: most photo labs will print cheaper, with better quality control, with known sizing, and with known print lifetime.

Quality: This dye-sublimation printer will match the quality of a lab. The prints are clear and well colored. (I use a color calibration tool for my monitor, so I know the colors are correct out of the printer. I suspect that may be the problem with other reviewers who have complained of mismatched color.)

Cost: you are looking at about $60 to buy the unit, plus $0.27 per print. Photo labs tend to start at $0.19 per print. You pay extra for the convenience of print-it-here-and-now, but it's not too bad of a cost. The "sample media" provided by Canon was good for exactly 5 prints. Be sure to buy your first 108-pack if you order this printer.

Quality control: A dye-sub printer will (in my experience) give more consistent quality than an inkjet. Inks dry out, colored films do not. Ink nozzles can block up, leaving streaks in your prints, colored films do not. Even so, an imperfection in the ribbon or the paper will be visible in your prints. I've already seen this happen with this unit in the 3rd image that I printed. There is a bright green spot in my print where the magenta film had a defect. This is another win for a lab: if I'd received this print from a lab, I could get them to reprint it for free. To redo it myself will cost me another $0.27 for the new print.

Sizing: as has already been mentioned in another review, the sizing of 4x6 prints is about 3-15/16" by 5-13/16", when printing "borderless" on the perforated 4x6 sheets. Any professional printer will tell you that you have to plan for bleed space when you send imagery for printing, and this is a good example. Don't print pictures with the content all the way up to the edges, or you will be disappointed when it gets cut off. This is probably true of your photo lab as well, so plan ahead and save yourself the grief. Note as well that the aspect ratio of a 4x6 print is 3:2 and the aspect ratio of most point-and-shoot cameras is 4:3. Some labs will offer 4.5x6 prints for this very reason, to avoid cropping the image. There are no cropping/positioning tools on the printer, so you'll want to pre-crop in your favorite image editor before sending 4:3 images to this printer. That or shoot with a DSLR that has a 3:2 ratio sensor anyway (All current Canon and Nikon SLRs).

Lifetime: Photo lab prints done on photographic paper have been around dozens of years. Their long-term resistance to fading is well known. Printer paper and dye-sublimation inks are not nearly so well known. I had an older (circa 2001) Olympus dye-sublimation photo printer, and the prints that I still have from that machine have NOT lasted. The colors have separated unevenly, or faded away entirely in some cases. I'm glad I didn't trust anything important to that medium. Canon claims prints from this printer will last 100 years. I'm hoping so.

This is a very small printer that works really well at printing off memory cards without being attached to a computer. It is easy to use and the quality of the photos is excellent.