Compact Photo Printer Selphy CP730

First of all I would like to say that I was EXTREMELY DISAPPPOINTED with this product. The instructions had very very little useful information about how to remove the ink cartridge or how to use cleaning accessories that were included. This totally changes my view of Cannon products. I can only hope that my future purchases on Amazon will remain trustworthy and dependable. I am a very frequent buyer on Amazon which until this printer and a non fastening belly button Ring that I purchased not too long before that have luckily been my first negative experiences through this site. I will ALWAYS BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS before purchasing products in the future. I honestly did think this reputable online store was different from Craigslist. Buyer beware.

Actually, this is CP720 review, but the spec of CP730 is almost same except 2.0 LCD, Image Cropping Function, Battery Operated, multi format media, My Colors photo effects, Wireless printing with IrDA.I have bought two CP720 for $99.00 each from local store. It has several useful functions like 1.5 inch LCD preview monitor, multi layout control, built in USB cable and card reader... Print quality is excellent with anti-smudge coating, you can not tell the difference with print from Photo Lab or even better. Printing time takes less than 2 min. Delivering high quality photos that last for up to 100 years. Highly recommend this printer for people who want to print snap photos by themselves. Furthermore, upgrade version CP730 has battery operated option, so you can get nice photo lab quality print at anytime, anywhere.CONs; 28¢ per print. Easy to get dust spot on the final image while 3 pass print processing. No image Cropping function(But $50 more CP730 has it!)

What do you call people like me? Photo-aspirants? I'm not a professional photographer. But I shoot images all the time, sometimes a dozen or two a day, trying to create a picture other people will find curious, entertaining, weird, surprising, silly, shocking: "refrigerator-quality," I guess.Kris Hermanns told me her mother had a device like this, that printed postcards from digital cameras. I bought it on that slight recommendation. I had a new Canon PowerShot A620. I had a trip to France on the calendar. Kismet.I've always used film. I was a film snob: I wanted beautiful images. The first photo that came off this Selphy CP730 printer blew me across the room. The color was intense, perfect, gorgeous; and in my hand in less than a minute, printed on glossy stock with a postcard back. I compared it to a film print and couldn't tell the difference. It was this printer, in fact, that convinced me that digital photography was as good as film. Not just "as good as" -- better, because of the control you have over color. Anybody want some aging, unexposed film? I've never gone back.My system (which I sometimes pack up and travel with) includes my Canon digital camera, the Selphy printer, my MacBook loaded with iPhoto (which allows me to manipulate). It's a seamless, no-issues production process. I often pump out a half-dozen curious images a day, to send to friends, colleagues, family. It keeps me in touch with them at low cost. When we have our big summer party, I'll also use the Selphy to print out the invitations (created in Photoshop, so I can add text).I sent a Selphy to my sister-in-law, Aimee, who IS an art and professional photographer; and she loves it, too.

only lasted 6 months before it stopped working

I just got the Canon Selphy CP730 and the best thing that I can say is that it is extremely portable. If you want a picture on the fly, wherever you go then I might consider this. But if you are buying this to use at home like I have, with an eye for toting it about, the print quality is lacking sharpness and the colors are lacking depth. My HP printer does a much better job but lacks the portability. Bottom line, it doesn't produce good pictures.

So I took photos that included a nice blue sky and printed out a few on this printer. It seems it has trouble with sky gradients. In the photos, the horizon sky is a light-blue/cyan color then it changes to a nice deep blue as you go higher in the picture. When I look at the photo on my monitor it looks perfect, however, when I print out on this photo printer it looks somewhat speckled at the transition from light-blue to deep blue. It's almost as if the printer or the dye has trouble with fine gradients.For the price of the dye I would expect much better (compared to online printers). And don't try to blame it on my camera.Another thing. I tried loading edited images onto an SD card and printing from the card but the printer could not read the edited images from the card. I guess it only wants images straight from the camera? That seems silly, but ok. They printed out fine if I printed from the computer though (although see first paragraph).Other than those two things it's a decent printer. It's nice and small, although I don't like how the paper comes out the back periodically when it is printing. If I sound picky, I am.Bottom line I think the printer is OK but for the price of the dye, I would rather just get my prints online mailed to me. Seems like that has worked fine.

The printer only printed out a half of a picture I gave it to my daughter for a Christmas gift and was very disappointed

It did not have the paper tray not nothing with it I was real unhappy with it