Canon Selphy CP770

Snapshot printer is a mini photo lab

THE 3.2-POUND CANON SELPHY CP770 portable snapshot printer is a solid choice for those who print more than the occasional photo at home. It has some quirks, but once you see its image quality, you may never go back to a traditional inkjet printer.

The $149.99 CP770's dye-sublimation printing module nestles into the top of an oblong bucket that stores the AC adapter, paper trays, ink ribbon, and paper. The larger tray
accepts 4x6 postcard paper, and the smaller tray handles stock about the size of a business card. A memory-card slot and a Pictbridge USB port allow for printing without a PC.

Buttons for navigation, the menu, back, and printing are on top. The 2.5-inch LCD shows fuzzy images and limits them to 2 inches, thanks to menu icons. Still, navigation is easy. The menu lets you correct red-eye, convert a color photo to black-and-white or sepia, enhance the contrast and color depth, choose borderless prints, and print more than
one image on a sheet.

Prints are true photo quality. Details were flawless, flesh tones accurate, and colors vivid without being over saturated. Because the postcard media isn't the same aspect ratio as the photos from your digital camera, however, you'll lose half an inch. But the top coat protects the photo from water and helps it last up to 100 years in an album. Prints take about 1 minute and 15 seconds each, which is okay but not great.



You'll spend a hefty 28 or 33 cents per print, depending on the kit you buy. Also, other portable snapshot printers offer larger LCDs and support 5x7-inch output.
Nonetheless, we're still enamored of the Canon Selphy CP770. We love the bucket concept for portability and the near-flawless image quality. —Jamie Bsales


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Computer Shopper January 2009

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Canon Pixma MX7600

Canon Pixma MX7600
An almost-perfect inkjet MFP

CANON'S $399.99 PIXMA MX7600 all-in-one inkjet costs a pretty penny, but you get a best-of-worlds printer that delivers both laser-quality text and inkjet-quality photos thanks to its new clear ink technology. We've never seen an inkjet print text this well, and its photo printing abilities are also worthy of praise.
The MX7600 will scan, copy, and fax, and it can perform autoduplexing on print jobs. The front of the unit includes a multiformat memory-card reader, and media inserted into the reader is also available to any PC connected to the printer, either locally or over the network. It also features a PictBridge USB port on the front for downloading photos from digital cameras.
You can use the printer's 1.8-inch LCD along with the well-designed control panel to control printing tasks. Though the display provides intiutive instructions, it's very small and a bit difficult to read.
In our tests, both color and monochrome prints looked amazing, thanks to the clear ink applied before the colored ink. The Pixma's text output was surprisingly good, with razor-sharp edges and text that was legible all the way down to 3 points. In our color test pattern we detected no flaws whatsoever.
In our print speed tests, the MX7600 fared well, printing our 10-page document of photos and text in 1 minute and 46 seconds. It was fast with photos too, churning out 4x6 in just 38 seconds and 8x10 in 1 minute and 30 seconds.
Overall, the MX7600 is an excellent all-around printer. It's expensive, but worth it.-J.N.
source: Computer Shopper September 2008.
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