Features:

Canon Selphy CP790 has a unique Storage Basket which can easily hold the paper and ink cassettes, cable, AC adapter and battery pack that comes as an option. In addition, its special locking mechanism helps hold everything together when you carry the printing party with you anywhere you go. Even though the printer itself is much like Canon’s other small dye-sub machines, this machine has an oval, lime green top, into the top of which are set a 76 mm LCD display for previewing our images, ink and paper in one cassette and a series of five push buttons. In the centre of these is a four-way selection cross with, embedded in the middle, one of Canon’s Easy-Scroll Wheel for browsing quickly through menus.

Each of the sides of Selphy CP790 mushroom’s ’stem’ includes a door or sockets. On the left we would find sockets for the small, white power block, which delivers low-voltage DC to power the whole machine, a USB socket for connection to a PC or Mac and a PictBridge socket for printing directly from the camera. On the right side we have a cover for the film cartridge. SELPHY printers work by transferring solid ink from a very thin film ribbon onto the glossy photo paper, using a thermal print head. The cartridge supplied with CP790 is enough for just five photos, but consumables are available in 36-print and 108-print packs, which include both paper and cassettes. In the front we would see sockets for SD, MemoryStick and CompactFlash cards. There is an infrared sensor too, and a Bluetooth adapter is available as an option. Also at the front is a pull-down flap so we can plug in a paper cassette when printing. Two paper cassettes are supplied with the printer, one for 15 x 10 cm postcards and the other for business card-sized prints. A socket for the printer paper to feed out between each printing pass is present at the rear end.

All the parts fit in an oval, green bucket and the printer clips into its top. This is a very convenient way of transporting the machine. The bucket comes complete with a handle; though no spade and the whole system loses a little in portability, as we have to pay extra for the optional battery. CP790 comes with an applet called SELPHY Photo Print and a print driver and is compatible with both Windows and OS X.

Performance:

When we print, the paper is fed into the SELPHY CP790 and out the back of the machine. Later, it feeds through four times, being rewound between each feed, and layers of yellow, magenta and cyan dye-sub ink are laid down, followed by a final, clear, covering layer to protect the print. Despite this complicated process a four-pass 15 x 10cm print would take 58 seconds to complete from a PC, exactly a minute from an SD card and 54seconds from a PictBridge camera. All three times are quick when compared with many inkjet printers, including the small-format Photosmarts from HP.

Dye-sublimation technology employed in this Selphy CP790 printer makes use of heat to transfer ink to the paper, reproducing around 16.8 million colours for incredible pictures in both colour as well as  black and white. A clear protective coating is included that prevents against damage from light, water and gases so that your cherished photos last a lifetime. The CP790 comes with integrated Creative Options like Frames, Photo Diary Print, Calendars and much more to provide our photos a great personal touch we want when sharing those precious moments. It can also print borderless images in Postcard and Credit Card sizes or Black & White photographs. The Portrait Image Optimize feature helps you automatically deliver backlight correction for the photo prints, face detection and noise reduction while printing.

Print quality of these prints in this Canon Selphy CP790 Portable Photo Printer is pretty close to traditional silver halide photographs. There is very little of the dottiness of inkjet prints, as the ink in dye-sub printers is very briefly vapourised, or sublimated, to transfer it from the film in the cartridge to the print and the inks mix, giving what is often referred to as continuous tone print, without ink dots. Photo test prints look good, with smooth transitions between colours and sharp detail in foregrounds. By default, colours are rather dark, but flesh tones are natural enough. Overall, these images are easily as good as the best to come out of equivalently-priced inkjet printers and far better than some traditional photos.

Canon has taken its eye off the ball when it comes to pricing the consumables for the SELPHY CP790. The rival companies, such as HP and Kodak, are offering colour prints for cheaper price. But, it is worth paying a bit more for the convenience of printing wherever and whenever we wish.

Warranty:

The Canon Selphy CP790 Compact Photo Printer is available with a standard warranty of one year.

Verdict:

Stylish and compact, simple and smart, the SELPHY CP790 is a great little printer in lot of ways. Although CP790’s ‘toadstool in a bucket’ design might be a bit gimmicky, there is no denying it is a convenient way of carrying printer, cassettes, power supply and spare consumables. It is very easy to use and is versatile, printing from USB, PictBridge, memory cards, optionally Bluetooth and even infrared. Prints quickly and can produce lab-quality photos. With its range of creative functions and convenient features, it is also ideal for families for cherishing memories. Unfortunately, its expensive running cost lets it down.

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Canon Selphy CP790 Photo Inkjet Printer - Technical Specification Table

Design Features:

Canon Pixma iX5000 Photo Inkjet Printer is square-cut with a traditional paper throughput from rear to front. It makes use of a four-stage telescopic output tray specially intended for this purpose. This Photo Inkjet printer has two buttons control for power besides a paper feed. There is a PictBridge socket at the front and you will find a USB 2.0 port at the rear ends. The set-up and installation of Pixma iX5000 is quite standard and take about half an hour for both hardware and software. Connection is by way of a standard USB 2.0 cable, which we need to buy separately.

Output tray:

The Canon iX5000 inkjet printer does not look particularly exciting, but it is neat and seems to be tough and durable. Its paper input tray is well organized and can hold up to 150 sheets of plain paper, but there is no option to use roll paper in this printer. The output tray of iX5000 feels similarly robust and supports A3 paper to prevent curling. With the exception of the print bed and mechanics, the parts and casing of this printer are all plastic. The sharply angled tray means the footprint is just a touch smaller than competitive A3 models.

Physical Dimensions:

Dimensions and weight are low enough for one person to install the printer and carry on their own. As with the case of Canon models, the print heads and inks have to be fitted separately, using a simple snap-in process. It is at this point that the main cost-cutting angle of this printer is revealed, when you realise the straightforward use of colour.

Faster data transfer:

With a well-built design and bigger operational buttons the Pixma iX5000 offers a great sense of reliability and ease of use. The Auto Feeder comes with the ability to hold up to 150 sheets, accounting for ease of use and comfort. The printer has a USB2.0 Hi-Speed interface for a much faster data transfer and it is compatible with both Windows as well as Mac OS X. Canon’s Pixma iX5000 inkjet printer prints on paper up to A3+ (329 × 483mm). Therefore, it is a good compromise between an A4 printer and expensive large-format device.

Cartridges:

As with many other Canon Pixma printers, setting up the Canon iX5000 involves fitting its print head before slotting in the ink cartridges. It uses PGI-5BK pigment black ink and the     CLI-8 cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges which are used in many current A4 Pixma devices. These three cartridges would last for an average of 93 A4 photos; however, an A3+ page has two and a half times the area.  The black is a double size cartridge, whereas others offer a standard, relatively tiny, reservoir.

Canon FINE technology:

Canon employs FINE technology with 2pl ink droplets in Pixma iX5000 Photo Inkjet Printer which delivers a 4800 x 1200 dpi (Dots per inch) print resolution. The new technology means that the output is equivalent to competing six-ink models. But the inks are dye-based rather than pigment-based, which means the available gamut is very different and longevity is also an issue. The Single Ink Print system which is transparent has been employed in the printer that makes sure it delivers a cost-effective operation and reduces ink wastage. The iX5000 costs less than photo-orientated A3+ inkjets such as Epson’s Stylus Photo R1800 or Canon’s i9950.

Optimisation & Enhancement features:

The ChromaLife100 label assures that fading is minimal over a century under ideal conditions. But when exposed to air, this figure goes down to a decade or so. As most people do not keep their prints in a darkened room in a vacuum, the latter figure is more likely to reflect the real-world longevity. The supplied software holds the usual range of easy-quick photo utilities. More interesting in the printer is the main driver, which includes a couple of optimisation and enhancement features that try to add more punch and colour to prints. There is also a noise reduction tool, which attempts to remove graininess and other artifacts from our images.

Speed Performance:

This advanced iX5000 A3+ printer offers a remarkable A4 printing speed of 17ppm in colour and in mono format of up to 25ppm delivering professional productivity. It prints on a wide range of photograph sizes that range up to A3+. You can also take full advantage of its quick result for all the tasks. With the Canon Pixma iX5000, we can receive an A3+ size photo laboratory quality printing in or about 166 sec in regular mode.

Excellent Print quality:

In spite of the printer’s four-colour print system, the print quality for photos is generally quite good and colours appear natural and well-balanced. There is a lot of fine detail available in both bright as well as shadowed areas of an image. It can handle the graduated tints exceptionally well and solid colours are highly consistent, although sometimes not as clear as the originals. Though there is the possibility of a slight feathering into plain paper, black text is fairly free from jaggies. All your favourite photos can be viewed in a large and beautiful format. Also, one can enjoy rapid borderless photograph that prints on a range of various sizes.

Prints sharp texts:

The Canon Pixma iX5000 Colour Inkjet Printer enables us to print sharp texts and exciting colour graphics. If you require professional, superb quality photo prints, the stand alone printer can deliver crisp and sharp black text of striking and rich colour graphics. This feature is perfect for reports, documents, web pages, spreadsheets and photographs too. It can print photos straight from virtually all PictBridge that is compatible with camcorders and digital cameras. It can perform well without a PC as well. Excellent results can be observed in a short moment after the photographs are taken.

Warranty:

Pixma iX5000 Photo Inkjet Printer comes with the standard warranty and support of one year.

Verdict:

Canon Pixma iX5000 Photo Inkjet Printer is the ideal choice for users who are basking for professional, high quality prints. Though it is a bit heavy, this printer delivers sharp and crisp black text of rich and vibrant colour graphics. Moreover, it is easy to use and a reasonably priced wide-format A3 printer from the Canon.

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Canon Pixma iX5000 Inkjet Printer - Technical Specification Table

Design features:

The HP Photosmart B9180 Multifunction Inkjet Printer is quite big in size, but has a solid, professional feel. There is a general thought that large areas of plastic in a A3+ printer is pretty flimsy, but not the case with this Inkjet Photo printer. The printer has a boxy functional design having a curved front edge. This means that we have to open it up only when using larger sizes. The printer has a brushed metal panel that nicely folds down to expose a secondary, straight-through paper path. The paper from the main tray does the normal 180-degree turn before it is printed. However, in the top tray, it travels unfettered from front to back. This suggests that the printer could print on card up to 1.5mm thick.

A two lines by 16-character LCD display never fails to show status messages and instructions. There is also a row of 5 buttons underneath that helps you to navigate its menu system. You can find a USB 2.0 and Ethernet sockets at the rear end and the printer is of course network enabled right out of the box.

Installation:

We felt a bit difficult to install the consumables. The HP Pro B9180 requires separate ink cartridges and print heads which you have to install and prime in a set order. First, open the cartridge cover at the left-hand end of the printer and plug it in each of the 8 cartridges. They feature keyed mouldings which allow fitting only in its respective slot. This is followed by the priming of the printer achieved by pumping ink from the print cartridges to the point where the heads are available. When prompted by the LCD display, open the top cover and fit each of the two-colour heads, after you remove the stoppers on the ends of the tubes from the cartridges first. You also need to wipe each print head using a ‘super cotton bud’ that is spirit-soaked and provided with each head in order to get the ink flowing.  Now, you can load the’ calibration pack’ with actually ten sheets of A4 Advanced Photo Paper. Next, allow the paper to perform its own calibration for which you have to wait for about 30 minutes or so. This also involves several test prints and the print quality gets better progressively as a result.

Full calibration process:

A bit of research on the process of Full calibration will tell you that it is a one time process, although ‘closed-loop’ calibration occurs whenever a new, unrecognized media is employed in the printer. While you are waiting for this, the software can be installed that includes a comprehensive driver, a Photoshop plug-in & HP’s Photosmart Premier Application, a simple photo editor which is sufficient to do basic edits and to crop, resize and select images for printing.

Maintenance Software suite:

HP has integrated the HP Photosmart Pro B9180 hardware with a gamut of printing and maintenance software suite and tools. Right at the top of the chart is a plug-in that helps you to print directly from within the Adobe Photoshop offering a real-time preview of the image. This also allows us to choose the colour profile, print size, paper type, borderless options and much more from just within a single window. We always feel that this is the way any form of photo printing should be and is really a joy to use. Besides, HP has included an application, HP Printer Utility serving as the dashboard for interacting with the photo printer. The program incorporates realistic indicators of remaining ink capacity and other useful help screens. There are also facilities that you can make use of for cleaning the printheads that you do not require any more in addition to printing test pages and applying the closed-loop calibration tests.

HP Printer Utility:

The main advantage of the HP Printer Utility is that you can install customer paper profiles straight into the HP Photosmart Pro B9180’s driver. While there is nothing new in using custom colour profile for a particular paper type, HP makes the job much easier for you allowing you add your new profile directly to the paper-type menu.

HP Photosmart Edit:

Additionally, the Photosmart B9180 Inkjet Photo printer also has an application for printing photos namely the HP Photosmart Edit. But given the HP Photosmart Pro B9180’s target audience, we feel most people will be using Photoshop or a similar program to print. A nice feature of HP Photosmart Edit is that it can easily convert colour images to grey scale. It also offers a set of black-and-white transformations akin to conventional camera filters. Photoshop’s Channel Mixer features much more sophisticated set of tools for the same process, but Photosmart Edit without doubt will provide good results.

Performance:

The B9180 is brilliant as it can not only auto-sense the paper type it utilizes, making use of bar codes on the back of HP sheets and its very own densitometer to calibrate for other types, but also sense paper sizes. Also, we found that the printer does not print an image that is fairly big for the loaded paper input which is good under any standards. But one should note that it even tells you if the paper is bigger than is actually required for a given image. This feature helps in avoiding the wastage of costly photo papers.

Excellent print quality:

The pages printed with the printer are of excellent quality. It makes use of pigmented inks all through to provide stunning resistance to fading accredited by the Wilhelm testing laboratory to last for over 200 years. In addition to the regular cyan, yellow and magenta, you will find two blanks – photo black for photo images and matt for text print and other additional colours including light cyan, light grey and light magenta. Colours that you see in the prints are lively, but well controlled; therefore the images do not appear lively when they are not indented to. Colour including reds, blues and greens are quite well rendered, appearing true and natural.  With fine, intricate lineage and sharp edges, the detail is fine. The colour gradation is smooth without obvious bands in the prints. The colour print on plain paper is also highly managed with neat, stipple-free frills and clear, crisp and precise plain text. Black print is not as dense as we may expect. The black and the white images appear a bit darker than the original print.

Print speed:

The print speed is fine for this type of printer and apparently better than the cheapest HP Photosmart 8750. Normally, it would take 1 minute and 18 seconds for printing a five-page text document which is comparatively good for a printer built for photo printing. If it is a 5 page text and graphics print that has to be printed, it will takes only 21 seconds longer. However when you consider the A3+ size print, coming in at 2 minutes and 12seconds, one has to admit that speed has not been sacrificed on the alter of print quality.

Sound levels:

Because it is an inkjet, one would like the sound levels to be as less noisy as possible and in most places; the sound levels were quite below what we could measure. In general you will find some pumping cycles and clicks while the Hewlett Packard printer is re-circulating and maintaining its inks, but these should not be annoying anyways.

Instruction Manuals:

HP provides an easy to use, instructive manual that helps you to get the most out of the printer including discussing profiles, print types and instructions to use the print driver’s integrated colour features as opposed to utilizing Photoshop’s colour features. For someone who is new to pigment-ink printers or looking to augment his or her Photoshop printing knowledge would find the manual highly practical in every way.

Warranty:

The HP Photosmart B9180 Multifunction Inkjet Printer is covered under a standard one-year limited hardware warranty.

Verdict:

The HP’s latest pigment-based Vivera Ink printing technology deployed in this printer receives a fair amount of beating. The vivacity of colour prints is excellent, stained only by insignificant darkening of black and white and this may need some form of compensation. The printer is a unique one, in that it is a product so well thought out and so immaculately built-in with Mac as well as Windows PC. As parting words, this high-end photo inkjet printer brings the feature set and printing quality of high-priced printers to the desktop of any ardent graphic artist or digital photographer.

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HP Photosmart B9180 Inkjet Printer - Technical Specification Table

Features:

Stylus Photo P50 is very compact and has just three buttons in the front with no LCD screen making it relatively clutter-free. Blending in with the rest of Epson’s new inkjet range, the top of the Stylus Photo P50 comes in gloss black colour with a texture of minute dots. Surprisingly, Epson Stylus Photo P50 6 colour photo printer has no memory slots and also has no wired or wireless network module, hence the connections has to PC or Mac must be made via USB. It is very shameful that there are not memory card slot, which are available in most of the standard printers and all-in-one printers these days. Printing from cards would still be hampered due to lack of display. To print from cards via computer, other manufacturers have tied their printers in with PC or Mac based software.
This printer is controlled by three push-buttons at the top left of the front panel, one for power, one for cartridge changes and the third for paper feed and to cancel the job. The first two buttons have embedded LEDs to indicate the status. At the rear end it has a single socket for USB connection, which is the only way to feed data into this printer.

The output tray is of flap type which folds in the front and input tray is also similar which sits on the top of the top of the printer. This whole product looks ungainly when both these flaps are opened, but it can be stored easily when not in use. Epson offers an attractive feature of printing labels onto compatible discs with this printer. A separate CD/DVD tray is located at the front of the printer for this purpose.

The Stylus Photo P50 Inkjet Printer also uses a piezo-electric print head with plug-in ink cartridges as usual in Epson printers. The Stylus Photo P50 employs Epson’s Claria dye-based inks, which the company claims results in longer-lasting prints. Six inks in total are available in this photo printer, each housed in its own cartridge with light cyan and light magenta added to the standard CMYK four colours. Interestingly, these two light cartridges, although specified as ‘additional colours’, are actually heavily used when printing photos. All the six inks are also available as a bundle which can save a bit of cash. Epson provides a bundle of software to select with the printer including its Easy Photo Print application. The driver lets us to keep an eye on the ink levels and apply features such as red-eye reduction.

Epson provides various software, which are bundled with the machine and includes the company’s useful web print utility, which ensures that everything from a viewed web page is printed by compressing the width of the print image. When compared to the previous Epson printers, the installation applet is better designed as it no longer requires accepting the license agreements for each sub-element of the suite.

Performance:

The Stylus Photo P50 is pretty fast when printing in draft mode. It was able to print text with an impressive print speed of 25ppm. In draft mode though the printer is incredibly loud, it sucks a sheet of paper in with a thunderous clunk sound each time.

As this printer is designed for high-quality photo prints, it is unlikely to be used to print text documents. Using the highest quality setting, an A4 photo print would take over 5 minutes to appear. With the quality loss, we can obtain faster photo prints in 30 seconds using the standard settings. The quality of the prints obtained using the highest quality setting is awesome. The colours are rich and detail is well defined when Epson’s Premium Glossy Photo Paper is used. A sample of the same is also included. It would print around 5ppm when it comes to a normal text document which is a realistic normal mode speed. This is attained due to the efficiency of Epson’s driver, which takes very little time for processing before starting to print. Textures are smooth and colours are natural. Maximum resolution obtained is 5760 x 1440 dpi. Colour graphics are also smooth and dither-free thought the black text over graphic fills is bit rough and round the edge which is not surprising as this is applicable when printed on plain white paper too.

Warranty:

Epson offers a back to dealer type standard warranty for one year for Stylus Photo P50 photo printer.

Verdict:

The Epson Stylus Photo P50 A4 Printer is a decent photo printer which is able to produce vivid prints with impressive quality.  The six colour print, a good photo print speed and extra feature to print on CDs and DVDs are the leading characteristics of this photo printer. It also has certain limitations as the time taken to print the highest quality photo prints is bit high, high running costs, absence of status display and the lack of a built-in card reader. It would have been great if wireless technology like Bluetooth was included in this photo printer.

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Epson Stylus Photo P50 - Technical Specification Table

Features:

Canon PIXMA MP640 All-In-One Photo Printer could be easily distinguished from the Canon’s new range of PIXMA all-in-one printers as there is one tell-tale sign; a blue, flashing Wi-Fi logo. It is a mid-range multi-function printer with several charming features been build into this machine by Canon as twin paper trays and CD/DVD direct print. It could be named as a device of substance, with the company’s unique design which sets the control panel in the scanner lid, protected when not in use by a fold-down cover, which itself contains the machine’s 75mm LCD display.

Particularly the control panel is well laid out with large, easy-to-use buttons for the main functions, two programmable buttons for context-sensitive entries and Canon’s unique little click-wheel for selecting menu options. Beneath the lid, there exists a standard flatbed scanner and if we lift the whole of the scanner section up, we get easy access to the five cartridges in the semi-permanent head carrier. Five cartridges include two blacks, a pigmented one for printing text and a dye-based one for picking out details in photo prints.

The front corner on the right hand side includes a curved cover, which hinges open to reveal three memory card slots, adding CompactFlash to the standard SD, MemoryStick and xD mix. In order to welcome USB drives as well as PictBridge cameras, it has a USB socket below the slots.

The Canon PIXMA MP640 Multi-function printer handles the paper in a very versatile manner, with a 150-cassette which slides in under the machine from the front, supplementing a standard 150-sheet upright tray at the back. Even though the cassette and the rear tray are capable of feeding photo blanks and plain paper, Canon recommends us to use the rear tray for photo blanks and the cassette for plain paper.

Canon’s convenient direct CD/DVD print facility is also available with this all in one device, where we load disc blanks into a carrier which slots in from the front, once we pull down an internal cover. Canon offers a good selection of support software, which includes an excellent CD/DVD label design applet and installation is also pretty simple. Canon employs a straightforward wireless connection, which is a two-stage process, where the printer is first logged onto the wireless network, using WPA or WPS so that the software installation then picks up the newly available printer.

Performance of PIXMA MP640:

Canon quotes ISO print speeds for normal mode printing and the headline figures on the PIXMA MP640 are 9.2ppm for black print and 8.1ppm for colour. But, in reality a five-page black text print returned a speed of 5.66ppm and the longer, 20-page document increased this to 6.56ppm. Moreover, five-page black text and colour graphics print gave 3.95ppm. These speeds are not too good, but are in the middle of the range for an inkjet all-in-one in this price range.

Duplex print speeds are better than before, as the paper rests for only a second or so between sides, which is not the case in some of the machine’s competitors as they wait as long as 15 seconds before printing the second sides. The appearance of the print is awesome when compared with a direct print, with colours coming out very close to the original with no signs of banding. Areas of solid colour are a little mottled, but then they are in the original prints too.

Colours are bright, crisp and clear. Black text is generally sharp and dense, though there is occasional feathering of ink into the paper fibres, giving a more fussy appearance. Still the photo prints are the best we have ever seen from any SOHO machine. Colour blends are clean and smooth with a better shadow detail. Colours are natural, bright, and clear, and correspond well to those in original images and foreground detail is sharp and precise.

The five cartridges are the only consumables in the PIXMA MP640 Inkjet Multifunctional Printer and they’re all priced reasonably. These are competitive with machines such as the HP Photosmart Premium C309g, tested recently, but a little higher than for any of the new Kodak ESP machines.

Warranty:

Canon PIXMA MP640 Network ready Premium All-In-One Photo Printer is available with a back to base warranty of one year.

Verdict:

Canon PIXMA MP640 is a versatile, well-designed, easy-to-use all-in-one device. This may not be the cheapest printer to run, but we do get some high quality photo prints, better than average plain paper prints and the facility to set up plain and photo paper simultaneously. We also get the facilities to print on CDs and DVDs and to duplex pages with less speed overhead than from most of its competitors. It doesn’t do quiet enough to secure an award, but it will not disappoint us, if we do pick one up.

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Canon PIXMA MP640 Inkjet Photo Printer - Technical Specification Table

Features:

Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer is the world’s smallest digital portable photo printer which sits on our hand, no wires, no mess and no fuss when other printers sit on a desk and plugged into a PC and the mains. This amazing digital portable photo printer being slightly bigger than our mobile phones can print anywhere, anytime. It weighs just 8 ounces.
ZINK (Zero Ink) technology is deployed in this printer which simply means “No Ink”. This technology eradicates the waste of time, effort and money in replacing expensive cartridges, ribbons or print heads. Buying the ZINK photo paper is the only task for us which are available in 10, 30 and 70 packs. ZINK technology is a new and simpler approach to printing where high quality, durable, colourful and affordable prints can be created without a drop of ink. This breakthrough technology was developed over 100 patents. In ZINK-enabled device, ZINK paper and intelligence are embedded.

The patented ZINK Paper is an advanced composite material with embedded magenta, yellow and cyan dye crystals. These crystals are activated with 200 million heat pulses, in 30 seconds, in a single pass. The paper is 100-percent inkless with 100 billion crystals in a 2 x 3 inch print. Heat is used to activate and colourize these crystals in a ZINK-enabled printer. Every ZINK-enabled device has the benefits of being small, simple and eco-friendly as no ink is involved here.

Bluetooth printing is an added beauty to this Portable photo printer. With this provision we can print the snapshots available in our mobile phones through Polaroid PoGo Digital Photo Printer. We can take snap with our camera mobile and connect the same to your Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer using Bluetooth and wirelessly print your photos. This digital photo printer is handy and it also has the option to print through USB connection. We can comfortably plug in our digital camera and connect via PictBridge using USB cable and start printing mind blowing snaps right before our eyes.

The latest rechargeable lithium-ion battery has been employed in this Polaroid PoGo photo printer. We can take pictures by either charging fully or partially. There is no need to worry about losing power as the fully charged battery can stand up to 15 prints. With all these stupendous features and quiet affordable price, the Polaroid PoGo digital photo printer would be a perfect gift for any of your friend and family.

Performance:

Polaroid PoGo takes hardly 1 minute to print our photos. This enables us to print more copies of our favourite photo and share it immediately with our friends. Each Polaroid PoGo print is handy 2×3inches with no white borders. If we wish, we can peel the back off and stick these pictures anywhere we like. These handy sized print can be carried anywhere with us and can be used to stick on fridge, album or even to wear as a badge. All we need here to run the PoGo is paper, which can be bought as a bunch of 30 sheets pack. Each 30 sheet pack contains three sachets of 10 sheets as the printer can accommodate only this many papers. Barcode is present over a small blue under sheet which informs the printer that we have loaded the paper.

Warranty:

PoGo Compact Digital photo printer comes with a warranty of 1 year. According to the warranty norms the device could be returned back to the dealer in case if there is any issue within 1 year.

Verdict:

Polaroid PoGo Digital Photo Printer would be the fantastic choice for those people who hang around for parties, outings, sports events and anywhere else, where they may want to print small photos instantly without the hassle of wires. This digital photo printer would be dissatisfying for those people who would like their pictures to look spectacular. Moreover, this little printer would fail if it is compared with the more expensive and compact photo printers. There is no doubt that this printer is extremely convenient and easy to use, but the ZINK technology is not in a stage to provide good quality images. It might require more development and a couple of generations to obtain the standard of the old Polaroid instant photos.

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Polaroid PoGo Digital Photo Printer - Technical Specification Table

Features:

For 6-ink colour true-to-life photo quality we can go for this easy-to-use HP PhotoSmart 7850 Colour Inkjet Printer. These photos would have the capability to resist fading for generations. We can view or print photos from our PC or without a PC from memory cards. This print has the ability to turn any room into a creative centre of photo world. HP PhotoSmart 7850 Photo Printer has a USB and a PictBridge port for direct photo printing. It includes a removable 4×6 photo tray along with the box. Organising, editing and fixing photos will become very simple and fast with the help of HP Image Zone software. It is compatible with PC and Mac environments. In order to deliver the highest quality photos with or without use of PC, this versatile photo printer contains a memory card reader, USB port and PictBridge. It comes with 32MB memory.

HP 7850 photo printer can produce professional quality digital photos and documents with the thermal inkjet technology within fraction of seconds. In no way it is lesser than any other printer of its class when it comes to the printer resolution as it supports up to 1200 x 1200 dpi when printing from a computer, up to 4800 x 1200 optimized dpi in color when printing from a computer with 1200 input dpi. To add to the beauty of this photo printer an optional Bluetooth adapter is available through which we can connect the mobile phone for printing pictures. With a combination of photo inkjet and tri-colour print cartridges outstanding images could be created. The box includes HP PhotoSmart 7850 Printer, HP 95 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge (7 ml), HP 99 Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (13 ml), HP Image Zone Photo & Imaging software on CD-ROM, Quick start booklet, user’s guide, power supply and a power cord. With the help of HP Instant Share, we can share the photos with our friends through emails. With or without border printing of standard and customized photos is possible up to 8.5×2.4”.

Performance:

PhotoSmart 7850 Inkjet Photo Printer can print the documents easily up to 22 pages per minute with crisp black text. If we add a little colour to the document then the page count may reduce to 21 per minute. This printer has a comparatively good performance and speed. The HP PhotoSmart 7850 Photo Printer can print out 4?x6? photos in just 27 seconds which saves around 10 seconds when compared with any other photo printer in this category. It has print resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi for black and white printing and 4800 x 1200 dpi for colour printing.

Warranty:

This HP PhotoSmart 7850 Photo Printer carries one year limited hardware warranty and includes all possible support features from HP.

Verdict:

For rich look photos and realistic colours with no virtual grains, HP PhotoSmart 7850 printer would be the best choice. Its admirable print speed of 22ppm is an eye catching feature. This printer is worth for the price.

HP PhotoSmart 7850 Printer - Technical Specification Table

It contemporary design and wireless capability are strongly portrayed by Epson Stylus and they are ready to tackle fierce competition in all in one photo printer market, which is already been filled by Cannon and HP. This multi functional photo printer is made to cater the needs of all purpose photo print job in your home and also has a great look and comes with great promises. This PX710W All in One photo printer is specially designed for photo lovers who like to take high quality photo prints directly from digital camera, CD/DVD or memory cards.

Design:

This PX710W wireless photo printer can do scans, copies, faxes and photo prints. It has sleek body and fully finished with black chassis. Its compact size lets you to place it in a shelf comfortably if you are not opening the scanner lid too high. The scanner lies nicely on the top with easy to open lid, which is made with a matte finish and looks with a glossy exteriors. The dashboard has been designed nicely to accommodate collection of buttons, which are placed on the front end firmly on the upper side. All the operative and navigational buttons are built with equal space in between on a separate control panel.

The control panel can be positioned in seven different ways for perfect usability and it features a small LCD screen. On the extreme left of the control panel you can find buttons for power control and CD tray along with four way mode selection buttons. At the right side you can see large start button along with directional menu buttons. At the bottom of the dashboard is a two paper trays to be used with A4 size paper as well as photo sized paper simultaneously and you can switch between this paper using user interface on LCD screen. The paper tray has the capacity to hold 100 sheets.
It is hard to find any fault in built quality of this all in one photo printer, which not only impresses the users but the rivals too have a chance to take a note from Epson Stylus. The well built paper tray nicely slides into the body and looks like a laser printer style. The large LCD screen with user interface is one of the important selling points put forth by Epson Stylus. You cannot expect running cost to be low since this printer uses six cartridges and if you try other high yielding cartridges rather than Epson recommended cartridge set then you might expect some good print economy.

Features:

For convenience of sharing digital photos, this Epson Stylus PX710W all in one photo printer has twin memory card slot on right side of the paper tray along with USB socket. It gives option to use either compact flash card or PictBridge with dual function. The output tray is built with sliding method, which can be comfortably pulled out or put back into the bay if the printer is not in use. The connectivity portion is placed at back of the printer with the provision for Ethernet but it is wireless connection is what much sorted out by users. This multifunctional photo printer is equipped with six printer cartridges that can be stationed in dedicated holder at the corner. You can easily plug the cartridge in and the maintenance is easy. Setting up of wireless connection is simple using driver for Windows that is provided in the package.

Print Performance:

Without any doubt, the print quality of Epson Stylus PX710W Inkjet photo printer is impressive and the black prints along with skin tone are more realistic without any room for error. The printed high definition photo quality shows most of the details and has smooth transition from light colour print to dark print. You cannot find any dots when printed in Epson photo paper and the half tone colour looks fine. This PX710W photo printer takes nearly 2 min 14 sec for A4 prints and same results also achieved with business charts and graphs prints on plain office paper. The stated printing speed is considerably achieved with three modes of print setting such as text, photo and image. The draft section also played its part well.

Text Print Performance:

Black text and small prints are legible and clear on colour backgrounds and there is no problem of ink smudges. When you try the print in low grade office paper then you will find the difference of quality by a smeary state of black colour mixing with background colour. But you need not go for low grade office paper because you can get cost saving print in photocopy media itself, which encourages you to print business presentation, reports or handouts. So, you can readily leave our inkjet media print and comfortably go for photocopy media prints. Epson Stylus PX710W multifunctional photo printer performs well in text print when compared to previous version of its inkjet printers and the business letter formation delivered as expected. The text looks slightly grey rather then black.

Print speed of PX710W:

The text printing has two practical setting such as standard and draft mode and the print speed in both these setting delivers a fair performance. The print quality is impressive but the speed is not up to the mark when tried on photocopy paper. This photo printer has considerable colour print speed and it is suitable for photo enthusiast. The standard mode of text printing performs in a usual way but the draft mode can be reserved for quick proofing or personal use printing purpose.

Scanning:

This photo printer has easy to use scanning facility similar to the printing options. It comes with various options to perform scanning, which can be selected directly from the printer itself. The scanned documents can be stored easily into memory card or computer PC in PDF format. The quality of scan can be optimised using adjustments and the LCD small screen gives you a preview before scanning any document.

Wi fi system:

Wi Fi facility plays an important role in home printers especially with Epson Stylus PX710W Photo printer. With the help of this facility you can access your PC anywhere in your home within the reach and comfortably process the printing job. Making a Wi Fi connection with Epson Stylus PX710W is an easy job and it enables you to move around your printer in your home without using messy cables. This Wi Fi system involves routers, which has to be connected with the printer.

Warranty:

This photo printer carries limited one year warranty.

Verdict:

Epson Stylus Photo PX710W all in one Photo Printer performs as it promised and lives to the expectation. It not only looks good but also delivers high definition quality of photo print. If you like to take good looking high definition photo prints then this printer is your choice. It is not suitable for plain paper and draft mode printing but produces remarkable photo prints.

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Epson Stylus Photo PX710W - Technical Specification Table

Features:

Canon Selphy CP780 Digital photo printer comes in a compact and stylish design. It is small enough to carry with ease and is available in four colours namely blue, pink, white and silver. This printer comes with a 2.5 inch colour LCD display and oversize, with well labelled control buttons. It would be very easy to edit and add special effects to our printing with the help of these dedicated control buttons. No downloading is required as the pictures can be easily viewed, selected and edited. With the help of this 2.5″ TFT LCD screen it becomes easy to pick our picture and print. Photos can again be customised with the help of five colour options available to customize the photos namely, Black & White, Vivid, Sepia, Neutral and Positive Film. As any other photo printer of its category, it can also function with or without a PC.

The Selphy CP780 colour photo printer comes with some exclusive features which include three media slots for SD Card, Compact Flash, Multimedia Card, and Memory Stick. A PictBridge port is also present on the left side of the printer, which is a boon for PC free printing as it can also print photos directly from your compatible digital camera, DV camcorder or camera phone. In order to use xD-Picture Card and other formats, third party adapter is required. Up to 54 sheets of 4-by-8-inch photo paper could be hold by the front –loading paper cassette. Little confusing side would the cassette’s double-lid design. Both lids needs to be lifted to load paper but lifting one lid would be enough to insert the cassette into the printer. Bluetooth adapter, rechargeable battery pack and business car size cassette are optional.

Canon Selphy CP780 has auto red eye correction facility which easily removes the red eye effect caused due to the flash photography. This photo printer has another interesting portrait image optimize feature. With this feature it can detect the faces of people within the image and adjustments are made so that the brightness and contrast of the faces are optimized. It can print the photos is various attractive sizes including the postcard size, credit card size, standard and wide stickers. With the help of optional Bluetooth adaptor, wireless printing is possible which is again perfect for spontaneous snapshots caught in our mobile phone. This printer is supplied with a step by step audio guidance on how to print images targeting the new users and children. Along with this it also comes with easy-to-use SELPHY Photo Print Software.

It is guaranteed that the beautiful borderless photos printed with the help of Canon Selphy CP780 are water resistant and can stay up to 100 years. As this photo printer is energy star qualified, this helps people to save money and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases by meeting the energy efficiency guidelines. The box includes a SELPHY CP780 Compact Photo Printer, Compact Power Adapter, A/C Cable, CP Printer Solution Disk, Paper Cassette (Postcard Size), Trial Ink Cassette (Postcard Size), Trial Standard Paper Pack (Postcard Size) and document kit consisting of Support Center List, User Registration Information, Setup Software and User’s Guide CD-ROM and User Guide.

Performance:

Apart from being a photo printer of cheap cost, Canon Selphy CP780photo printer has minimal benefit. This photo printer is little slow and it costs more per print piece when compared with its competitors. To finish a 4-by-6-inch snapshot, Selphy CP780 takes around 75 seconds on average (0.8 pages per minute) as a single photo requires four passes. But, it can print postcard size image of lab quality in just 47 seconds. Wastage of dye is more in this printer as once a photo is printed, that section of film could not be reused regardless of how much dye is left behind.

Warranty:

Canon Selphy CP780 is available with 1-year limited warranty and toll –free technical phone support.

Verdict:

Canon Selphy CP780 photo printer is an inexpensive printer suitable for home use. It has its own problems like slowness and wastefulness of consumables. This photo printer would have been the top pick of users if it were faster and cheaper per print. This printer has been produced as a result of priced competition, the HP Photo smart A536, is even slower, and its photos are around the same per print cost, where as Epson Picture Mate Dash is more expensive but is nearly twice fast and has considerably lower per print cost.

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Canon SELPHY CP780 Photo Printer - Technical Specification Table

Compromising Design:

Design wise, this HP OfficeJet 6000 photo printer (CB051A) has nice finished edges and pleasant curves with black and white colour combination. The top cover has matte finish without any snazzy design and well matches you office environment. This OfficeJet 6000 colour photo printer has a considerably normal dimension with smaller foothold and conforms that the printer would fit your office desk without covering extra space. But the output tray has to be drawn out from the bottom of the printer in order to begin the printing process. This would double the space and increases the length of the printer, which would cover more area on your desk making it as a space consuming unit. This output tray is attached to the lid of the above paper tray found near the front face at the bottom of the printer.
The manufacturer should have come out with different solution to minimise the length to avoid the demand for extra space on the desk. There is a removable output tray found just above the fixed paper tray and it has the option to extend the length. All the control buttons are presented above the tray on the front face of the printer for easy access. The series of buttons along with four LED ink level indicators controls all the functions of the printer. This includes important operative buttons such as paper feed button, power button, network set up key and cancel button. The four LEDs indicates you the ink level of four individual ink tanks by blinking the light. The most annoying thing is this colour inkjet printer does not come with USB cord and you have to buy it separately.

Simple Installation:

HP provides step by step instruction on how to install this printer and more over being a single function printer you would not find any difficulty during installation when compared to high end ‘all in one’ colour photo printers. Once everything is set up the printer would take nearly 10 minutes to recharge and start the printing process.

High Yielding Ink Cartridges:

With the compact dimension and small foothold, this Hewlett Packard Officejet 6000 printer looks like a box until the output tray is pulled out of the printer. The setup design comes very handy and does not demand any complex parts handling as in the case of ink cartridges. The four ink cartridges are well housed inside the box shaped printer and it can be revealed when you pop open the top cover with a latch on the end. The ink cartridges are well rowed on the carrier inside the bay, which offers enough space for cartridge to handle efficient colour distribution job. Apart from standard ink cartridges, HP also provides high yielding cartridges for cost effective printing solution on the long run. This would definitely offer you a better platform for both colour and text document printing with less cost per page. When approximately calculated, the cost per page is surprisingly lower than the average cost found on many today’s standard printers.

Competitive Print Speed in Officejet 6000:

When compared with its close competitor brands, this HP photo printer performs well in both colour and text prints. HP has quoted that this printer has the capacity to churn out 7 ppm print speed for both colour and text print. Comparatively, this inkjet printer shows much quicker performance on long printing modes. For full colour graphic documents, it does not take too much time to produce excellent printing performance but it shows little lower text print speed when compared to Lexmark Z2420 that produces 11 ppm for text print.

Surprising Print Performance:

HP has quoted that OfficeJet 6000 has the capacity to produced equal print text quality when compared with laser printer. It has been proved by seeing visually appealing text documents and image printing and it has been precisely printed out without any jagged edges. The print quality of this OfficeJet 6000 photo printer is even better than other multifunction inkjet printers, which cost you extra money by adding additional features. This printer is mainly used for office purpose only and better suites for consistent text prints and occasionally colour prints. It cannot be compared with print quality of other higher end printers but at this price range this inkjet printer has better performance. Colour print is also equally good when produced on the premium glossy paper. This printer produces clear and bright prints with exceptional print quality without any doubt. It well supports the full colour graphic documents but you cannot use them consistently, since some of the colours would be washed away when frequently used. Moreover the colour gradations and facial colour are well produced with extreme clarity without a black spot .

Safe Packaging:

HP OfficeJet 6000 Inkjet Photo Printer comes well packed and inside the box you can find four ink tanks, one black and other three are colours. HP has well handled the packaging of this photo printer and by looking at the quality of packaging method you can be rest assured that your printer will arrive safely without any damage. Each of four individual ink cartridges are well sealed and wrapped inside the cardboard box while print head clip specially put in separate plastic box.

Warranty:

This HP Officejet 6000 carries one year limited hardware warranty and includes all possible support features from HP.

Verdict:

HP OfficeJet 6000 is honestly targeted for office usage without any gimmicks. You would not get any additional features except colour printing with expected quality and speed. If you want to try printer with some more office functionalities then spend extra £25 and get Canon Pixma MX330 that comes with copier, colour LCD, built in fax machine and an auto-document  feeder, all this are considered to be necessary office multi-functionalities, which are used frequently.

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