- Personalize your photos with improves Creative Print options such as Frames, Clip Art, Calendar, Speech Bubble as well as so most more
- Optional bullion as well as china inks for combined fun as well as creativity to frames as well as shave art images
- Convenient carrying hoop creates it easy to take printer wherever we go
- Easily preview your images upon a far-reaching perspective point of view 3.0-inch tone LCD screen
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Canon Selphy ES30 Compact Photo Printer
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I am a event Photographer , this printer its really easy to use and more compact than the litle one what I mean with that its no trays going out , safe when you work around many people , also seems to print faster than the small one.
Great buy , also 2 years extended warranty for $19.
It was so easy to use and edit my photos. I like that the ink and paper are one unit. I hope the price for the cartriges isn’t to much. I have a Kodak all in one and it never worked right, this will definiately take its place. Good bye Kodak.
I took it right out of the box switched out the cartridge it came with, and started printing. The picture quality isn’t HD, but it is good. The little guy does all the work. It runs through the printer 3 times to get all of the colors on it, so don’t get worried when the picture looks yellow during printing. I didn’t think I’d care for the borders & picture layout options, but I’m really appreciating it! I love it!!
I have an Epson R800 printer. I ordered this to be my main 4×6 photo printer. I like Canon and always using Canon photography products.
Pictures are beautiful and colorful.
Thanks Canon and Amazon for this great product.
The prints look just like the photos you get at a photo lab. A tad smaller, as many have said, maybe 1/8″ narrower and 1/16″ shorter than the standard 4×6. Quality-wise, vibrant color and good detail, just as a lab print. Photos are coated with a waterproof and UV-resistant layer.
Cost, ~26 cents a photo (or a bit more if you take printer cost into account, which you should), worth the convenience. The paper/ink kit to buy is Canon E-P100 with two 50-page cartridges. Caution, the E-series printers are not compatible with the paper kits for the CP-series.
As in all dye-sub printers, you make exactly the number of photos indicated on the cartridge, no matter the color coverage. You won’t run out of ink before the paper, because the “ink” is in a film form sized just for the paper. For that same reason, you don’t need to worry about ink drying in a printer left unused for a while. It will be just as ready to print months from now as it is today. Just keep it away from dust.
A 3:2 format photo – as from a DSLR – fits the 4×6 paper better than one from your common point-and-shoot 4:3 camera, which will have to get chopped top and bottom or printed with white space on the sides to fit. You already know this if you have ever had photos done at a lab. You can choose how this is done using the LCD and you can even print a portion of the picture.
The scrolling wheel is useful at going through many pictures. The LCD is better than the older CP models, but still can’t be used to gauge colors. The menu has options for automatic or manual color adjustments (saturation, contrast, brightness, that sort of thing). Useful thing too, as some of the photos came out a bit too saturated. You can add borders or print a month calendar alongside your photo if you want.
You can print straight from a memory card, which I suspect will be the mode used by most. It supports many memory cards, Compact Flash, SDHC and Memory Stick for sure. There is a dedicated slot for the mini versions of the latter two cards so you won’t need an adapter. Insert the card, select the photos, edit if you need then print. Alternatively, you can prepare a “print order” right in the camera: when you view your images in PLAY mode look for a “Print” or “DPOF Print” option. Then stick the card in the printer and it will get to work automatically.
Another way is to hook the camera directly to the printer and use the so-called PictBridge mode. This way you can send photos from the camera to the printer over the USB cable. I do not find this mode very useful, as it wastes camera battery.
You can also print wirelessly, straight from your phone or laptop, by sending photos to the printer via Bluetooth. Canon says to buy the BU-30 adapter but I am happy to report that a 3rd party laptop Bluetooth adapter worked just fine for me.
Finally, you can print from the computer via USB, for which Canon provides a CD with software (Win/Mac). Didn’t try this yet. Not supported by Linux currently. Possibly a later version of Gutenprint-cups may know this printer, that’s the Linux print driver to use for the Selphy printers.
Major plus over the CP-series is that the ink and paper come in one cartridge which can hold 50 photos (the CPs use a lower capacity external paper tray). Also, the power adapter is integrated and all you need is a power cable. This is a step forward towards a portable solution. However, Canon took two additional steps back by making this printer roughly twice as large and twice as heavy as say, the CP-760 model with tray and power adapter. See the product photo I uploaded. That is the reason for the four stars. This isn’t something I want to take in my backpack on a trip or on a flight, though I would definitely take it in a car and the convenience of having 50 photos packed inside is not to be overlooked.
The ES-30 is slower in printing than the CP-760 by a good ten seconds, taking almost a full minute for each photo. As I patiently waited for my first print, it became quite clear why it is so, and also discovered the reason for the hefty weight. The printer spends all that extra time doing some alarming gymnastics with the paper in order to position it where the CP-760 already has it. I could barely stop myself from grabbing that first paper as it was slowly pushed out the front slot, almost all the way, then rotated in place like a card being dealt, finally coming to rest in a crooked orientation which brought flashbacks of horribly torn laser printouts caused by bad manual feeders, while the printer whines some more so as to confirm my growing suspicion that it has failed to grab the paper. But as I move to try to “fix” the problem, the printer snatches it and goes to print as if nothing happened. Turns out, that is how it works, and there is no cause for alarm, although I learned to protect it from similar instincts of well-intended friends seeing it print for the first time. Other than that, it’s quite entertaining to watch it work.