Canon Selphy CP740 Compact Photo Printer (2094B001),White

I am very disappointed in this product. I currently have this "broken" printer at home and sending it back is just more money. It worked for about 15 minutes and now I have the ink roll hanging out of the back of the printer. It's jammed and doesn't work. The thing I dislike most about this is returning it. I lose money for shipping it back, I have to pay for shipping and then I have to pay a re-stocking fee. Really-you are going to charge me a re-stocking fee....Are you really going to put this broken printer back in your stock.

I have been VERY pleasantly surprised at the quality of the prints generated by the Selphy 740. I have another printer I use for larger (8x10) printing & photo's but I wanted something that turned out native 4x6" prints for easy photo-albuming and spontaneous, on-the-spot giving to friends & family. (The lack of such traditional prints in this traditional form-factor is the great bane of digital photography, IMHO!)The BEST thing about this printer is the "layered film" technology used to actually print the images. I was a bit worried when I received the printer and discovered that, rather than using ink cartridges, a spooled cassette of CMY-sequenced films are used. This mechanism always struck me as a bit wasteful but I honestly believe it DOES produce the best images, with virtually no pixelization visible in the print. There is also a FOURTH layer, which is clear, that is overlaid atop the 3 separately applied CMY layers. This clear layer gives a WONDERFUL "photographic print" feeling to the final product -- I've always disliked how inkjet printers produce prints in which it is obvious (visually & tactilely) that the ink is simply sitting on top of the paper. The uppermost "clear layer" applied by the Selphy system results in a print that is virtually indistinguishable from one printed by a photo lab.I'm not sure what to think about other reviewers criticism that the prints come out dark -- I believe this is more a comment on the camera and/or monitor on which the images are created & viewed. I generally bump up the saturation and brightness "one click" in the printer's properties dialog before I print a photo, but I do this same thing on all printers.I concede that $0.26 per print is SLIGHTLY on the pricey side and that you can get less expensive prints at CostCo that (might?) look a BIT better, but I for one know that I am more than likely to never actually get such photo's printed. Having this Selphy 740 printer at home, where it is easily & spontaneously available, and generating very good prints is a VERY worthwhile value to me.Thumbs up!!***UPDATE*** It's 3 years later and I still use this printer and am still loving the results. Yeah, it prints dark but I just make it a standard practice to use the "printer properties" to bump up the brightness by 2 notches and bump up the contrast by 1 notch. I have become the local photomart for several of my friends & family. My thumb is still up!!

TThis one I installed a new ink and paper t his is my second unit that froze up on me .. I will send it back for a refund. Please do not send any replacement. Just give me a refund.

I love the canon processor the pictures came out clear and bright no problems working it simple to use love printing my own pictures

A great printer until it breaks. This was a replacement printer, the previous (same model) stopped working when the ink cartridge would not eject. But before that issue it worked very well and produced good quality photos for about 2 or 3 years.

Excellent concept and prints are great, costing about 4 cents each (paper and cartridge). Printing process is slow and loading paper into paper cartridge and loading cartridge into printer is a bit clunky and difficult. Screen is small and grainy. But for the money, considering picture quality is good and it is fairly easy to use, I recommend it.

Just got the printer from Amazon to discover Canon was too cheap to supply a USB cable to hook this beast to my computer. Let's figure USB cables add about 15 cents to the cost of the printer (my vendor charges me a buck, and I'm not a multinational company), and Canon can't even supply this basic necessity. It tells you everything else you need to know about this printer with the just decent image quality, large footprint and awful customer service.Steer clear. Go Epson or Kodak if you're looking for this type of printer.

The only part I needed from this item was a photo paper tray. I inquired of that prior to purchase. I was confident it would be complete. The one I purchased was even less complete than the one I already own. I feel that I threw my money away on a pig in a poke.