Canon Selphy CP1300 Wireless Compact Photo Printer with AirPrint and Mopria Device Printing, White

We purchased this printer so we could print out our digital photos. I researched it a bit, and after reading reviews and info about it online, this sounded like it would have a better print quality then the instant cameras we were considering buying. We were not disappointed the prints are amazing, even better than photos from old film developing! You can transfer the photos many different ways, via bluetooth for phone photos and some cameras. You can use a memory card or a usb flash drive. It takes a little bit of reading the manual to see how to print the photos, it was set to automatically print the photos with borders (which crops the photos a bit), I have to go into the menu and set it to print with borders, then the photos come out showing all the detail in the photo. The only thing I don't like about the printer is, the little screen is not very clear, and it is hard to preview the photos using it. I chose to look at them on the computer and transfer the ones to print to a usb flash drive. The quality of the prints makes it worth the bother though! You do still have to remember to print your digital photos! Though, I think I still have some old 35 mm film spools that haven't been developed yet! The nice thing is you can choose what you want to print!

opened the box unwrapped the items and plugged it in. inserting the ink cartridge was simple enough (hint: hold it so the text engraved on one side of the cartridge faces up) and loaded the sheets of photo paper into the tray then inserted the tray into the printer.i choose to use WiFi from an iPhone using my own WiFi network. typing the password letter-by-letter took a little time but was no different from doing that on a TV remote to log into a service like Netflix.Once the printer was on my WiFi network I found a picture in my photos then tapped "share" and one of the options was Print. I choose the Slephy printer and that was it. No need to install any app on the iPhone when I just wanted to print an image. The screen on the Selphy printer said "Busy" which was reassuring that something was happening. after about 45 seconds the print was finished and looked amazing.to achieve borderless prints a small sliver of the image at each end it lost. not ideal but for the half dozen pictures i printed to sort of mess around and see what this thing could do none of them were spoiled by having about 3-2 mm cropped off each end. the sheets of glossy printer paper have fine perforations that will cleanly snap off from each end on the finished print giving you a sharp-edged borderless print. people refer to the paper size as being 4x6 but in reality the finished prints are about 3-15/16" tall by 5=13/16th" wide. close enough for me.the only trouble i have with the printer is that is so much fun that i want to go crazy and print every photo i have.if you want to get back into having physical prints of your photos and the the size of 4x6 prints is satisfactory for you this machine is pretty great. if you have an iPhone it seems to be able to just print your photos directly from the camera roll without additional software (this amy also be true of Android but I haven't tried that myself).

We set this up at our wedding reception so guests could print out photos, keep them and leave copies with us for the guest book. Once you get the hang of how the basics work, you can really make it work for you quickly. I not only printed out photos to display/hang for our reception wedding table, but the guests had fun, our kids are having a blast making small photos for their journals (they love mini things!) and I've been adding photos to my wedding gift thank you cards of our honeymoon, or how their gifts are being used already. This is the gift that keeps on giving.I bought a few packs of the Canon RP-108 Color Ink/Paper sets through Amazon too, for about $25-$30. We've owned this since Aug 2020 and I've only just started using the second pack of paper.I find that the easiest mode to use it in is the Direct Mode. First set the printer to the "Direct Connect" feature, so it sends out a wireless signal. Then you need to go into your wireless settings (smartphone or computer) and choose that wireless connection as your internet (only while you're printing). There are apps you can upload but I find that some of the phone or computer programs can print directly to the printer with ease too. You just become limited in functions (choosing borders or how many photos print on one page) sometimes if you're not using the apps. I feel like I have so much more to explore with this printer but my kids and I are having a blast getting more into journaling and scrapbooking. This would be an epic gift for all ages. I'm gifting each of our kids one of the boxes of paper/ink that they can use however and whenever they want. Buy them while you can get it in stock!!!My only complaint is that when I first started printing photos, the images were super radiant and impressive. Somehow over the past month many of the prints are coming out a bit too dark. I will read and look up if there's something I can do to recalibrate it. This is even after changing out the ink cartridge...dang it.