Canon SELPHY CP800 Black Compact Photo Printer (4350B001)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.7 x 2.3 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003YL412A
• Item model number: CP800W
  

Price : $87.95
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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Canon SELPHY CP800 (Black) Compact Photo Printer: High-Quality, Easy-to-Use Compact Photo Printer

The SELPHY CP800 Compact Photo Printer brings photo lab quality to your memories as you can bring your printer from room-to-room with ease.

Print beautiful, borderless photos in vibrant color or Black and White in Credit Card or Postcard size. These prints will be water-resistant and can last up to 100 years!¹ You’ll enjoy photo lab quality and have fun all at the same time. Preview your images on the 2.5" Tilt-up LCD and easily turn your favorite pictures into an art-inspired collage with the image Shuffle feature.

Portrait Image Optimize automatically delivers face detection, backlight correction and noise reduction to your images while Red-eye Correction automatically reduces red-eye in flash photos for superb prints. Another great part about the SELPHY CP800 Compact Photo Printer is you don’t need a computer to have fun - just print directly from compatible memory cards³, cameras^4,5 and Bluetooth devices⁴, or print just about anywhere and anytime with its NB-CP2L optional battery.

SPEED ; QUALITY

High-quality Prints:Dye-sublimation technology uses heat to transfer ink to the paper, reproducing approximately 16.8 million colors for amazing pictures in both color and black and white. Then, a clear protective coating is added which helps prevent against damage from light, water and gases so your precious photos can last for generations.

Fast, Long-lasting Prints:Print a Postcard size photo in just 47 seconds2 and share for generations! Photos printed from your SELPHY will be water-resistant and last up to 100 years¹.

EASE OF USE

2.5" Tilt-up LCD:Easily view, select and edit your images for simple, computer-free printing with this adjustable full-color display. No downloading needed, just pick your picture and print!

Beautiful ; Borderless:Print gorgeous edge-to-edge, borderless photos in Credit Card and Postcard Sizes.

My Colors:Have fun with your prints as 5 colors effects are offered for added versatility: Black ; White, Sepia, Vivid, Neutral and Positive Film.

Portrait Image Optimize:For automatic facial detection and correction, Portrait Image Optimize optimally corrects images where subjects or faces appear dark due to strong backlighting.

Red-eye Correction:Images are automatically corrected for red-eye in flash photos and enhanced for superb prints.

CONNECTIVITY

Memory Cards³ / USB Flash Drive / PictBridge ; Optional Bluetooth⁴:Don’t feel like using a computer? No problem. Just insert a compatible memory card3 into the built-in card slot, or a USB Flash Drive into the USB port, select images on the LCD display, and print! Thanks to a PictBridge connection you can also print photos directly from your compatible digital camera, DV camcorder or camera phone. Plus, you can print from wireless Bluetooth devices4 with the optional BU-30 Bluetooth Adapter.

Optional Battery:The NB-CP2L is your path to truly portable printing power. Just add this battery to your SELPHY CP800 Compact Photo Printer and you can print your memories right where you stand!

USB:Plug the cable into your computer for a fast connection for your data transfers.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES ; BENEFITS

Exif Print:Supports Exif 2.2 (Exchangeable Image Format File), the worldwide standard for higher quality digital photos.

• Windows®7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP⁷
• Mac OS® X v10.4 to v10.6.x⁷

• SELPHY CP800 (Black) Compact Photo Printer
• Paper Cassette (Postcard Size)
• Trial Standard Paper Pack (Postcard Size)
• Trial Ink Cassette (Postcard Size)
• Compact Power Adapter
• CP Printer Solution Disk
• AC Cable
• Document Kit: Support Center List, User Registration Information, Setup Software ; User’s Guide CD-ROM, User Guide

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Disclaimers

1. Based on accelerated dark storage testing by Canon under controlled lighting, temperature and humidity conditions. Canon cannot guarantee the longevity of the prints; results may vary depending on printed images, display/storage conditions and environmental factors.
2. Print speed obtained using compatible Canon compact digital camera incorporating DIGIC II (other camera models may vary).
3. Compatible memory cards include SD^TM Memory Card, SDHC^TMMemory Card, SDXC^TM Memory Card, MultiMediaCard®, MMCplus Card, HC MMCplus Card, CompactFlash® Card, Microdrive®, Memory Stick®, Memory Stick® PRO^TM, Memory Stick® Duo^TM and Memory Stick® PRO Duo^TM. The following can be used with the addition of a special adapter sold separately: microSD^TM Card, miniSD Card, microSDHC^TM Card, miniSDHC^TM Card, microSDXC^TMCard, RS-MMC^TM, MMCmicro Card, MMCmobile Card, xD-Picture Card® and Memory Stick Micro^TM.
4. Requires mobile phone (or other device) equipped with Bluetooth v2.0 and optional Canon Bluetooth Unit BU-30. Bluetooth operation depends on the device and software version used. Operating distance is approx. 10 meters but may vary due to obstacles, radio signals, locations where radio interference occurs, magnetic fields from microwave ovens, device sensitivity and/or antenna performance.
5. Requires mobile phone equipped with PictBridge technology and a USB cable.
6. Supports DPOF "Both" mode of both standard and index printing.
7. System requirements vary by application.
8. Warranty programs are subject to certain conditions and restrictions. See www.usa.canon.com/support for details.

High-Quality, Easy-to-Use Compact Photo Printer

Technical Details

• Light, compact body and an optical battery makes it easy to take this printer with you
• Preview your images on the built-in 2.5" tilt-up LCD
• Enhance your photos with the improved "Portrait Image Optimize"
• Print water resistant photos that last up to 100 years in just 47 seconds
• Print directly from your memory cards, compatible digital camera, USB Flash Drive or wirelessly from a Bluetooth enabled device

Costumer Reviews

Length:: 2:08 Mins

Here's what it takes to print pictures with the SELPHY. The audio is a little low (Sorry!) but you can see how long it takes to print. This is light enough to take along to family gatherings so that you can give your mother prints of her grandchildren to show off immediately.

Prints are under $0.40 each for a package of paper and the ink cartridge. It's more expensive than taking your memory card to your drugstore, but you pay for convenience. The quality of the prints is very high. You can get a rechargeable battery ( Battery Pack NB-CP2L for Selphy CP-600/CP-330/CP-300 Photo )but as of today, it's $57, which I think is a little pricey compared to the cost of the printer, but it would be worth it if you have to print outside a lot.

All in all, this is a good product.

Right off the bat, no printer cable. That still irks me. I know, no printer comes with them, but why not?

Setting up the printer was easy - plug it in, install the software and you're off. I choose to print my photos directly from my PC instead of a SD card (since that's where all my photos were). The SELPHY Photo Print software is really easy to use. The startup kit only allows for five photos, so I chose wisely. It takes about 40 seconds to print a full color photo. The photo quality is pretty amazing! I was very impressed. I've been printing with inkjet printers for over 10 years and if you haven't used the printer in awhile, there's always some ink waste in getting the photo to turn out right. Plus, you always need to calibrate and clean your print heads. None of what will be necessary with this machine.

The unit is small and attractive. The giant white power adapter is not! And why a white power adapter for a black unit? I couldn't believe the size of the AC adapter for this thing! Kinda kills the whole small and portable thing, but there is a battery pack available for this unit.

The process in which this printer prints pictures is very cool and I hadn't seen anything like it before. It transfers via thermal film and puts down the yellow (Y), the magenta (M), the cyan (C), and then the black (B). So the photo paper makes four passes through the printer. When it makes the first pass, you see a yellow photo, then a yellow+magenta photo, etc. It's kinda cool to watch. Once your "cartridge" is used, you throw it out, something I wasn't keen on. From what I can tell, these are not recyclable and that's not a good thing. Canon is usually pretty green, so I can only hope some sort of recycling will exist for these bulky plastic cartridges. There's likely something on their website (I hope). The cartridges seem very wasteful and the 108 photo/cartridge pack means you'll be throwing THREE cartridges away when you're done.

Though there is a cute little credit-card sized photo option, it requires a separate tray and obviously, smaller paper. It seems like they could have combined the (only) two paper sizes in the same cartridge with a lever or something. But, each paper size requires a different cartridge. I have not been ablebto find the smaller credit-card sized paper/paper tray/cartridge anywhere else besides Canon's site. That's frustrating. I'd love to make tiny photos!

Overall, I like it, though it seems a little wasteful and costly. Cost per print for the 108 photo pack is about 27 cents/image right now. Not too bad.

PROS:

Small printer, small footprint

Excellent photo quality

Software is easy to use, if even a little too simplistic

One photo in about 40 seconds

Variety of connection methods (USB, SD card, memory stick, cell phone [with bluetooth add-on $50])

Heat transfer is nicer to deal with than messy ink tanks

No print calibration or alignment needed

No messy ink or waiting for photo to "dry"

CONS:

Wasteful cartridges - a very specialty item that cannot be reused or refilled

Giant AC adapter

Each paper size requires its own cartridge AND paper tray

Can only print two different sizes of photos - not an all-purpose device

Expensive add-ons (Battery $80, Bluetooth Adapter $50)

Credit-card sized paper, tray and cartridge are hard to find and expensive