A:AnswerI buy the photo kit of 108 photos. The ink lasts at least that long. I've always run out of paper before ink. I tested it and used a new pack of paper after the 108 prints; it printed a few more before running out. Seems like they make sure to provide a little bit more ink than paper.
A:AnswerYes, you can print from your cell phone. You have to download the Canon Application from either the App Store (Apple) or Play Store (Andriod). There is also an option with many phones that allows you to print right from your gallery using the print function if you are connecting via (Direct-Connection) with the Printer. Hope this helps.
A:AnswerThe Canon Selphy 1300CP uses the specific thermal dye-sublimation ink along with the custom thermal paper that is made for this printer. This is not an ink-jet or laser printer. The thermal dye-sublimation ink made for this printer is a dry ink on a tape inside the cartridge. The print process transfers the ink to the paper using a thermal process that instanly heats the ink directly to a gas stage and transfers directly to the special paper as a gas, which then "dries" or sets instantly. Once finished printing, the ink on the photo paper comes out "dry" because the process does not involve any wet ink process. The ink is not on the paper, the ink is on the cartrdige. However, you must use the special paper made for this printer in order for the print process to work correctly. This printer does not work with "regular" paper or cardstock.
A:AnswerWhen looking between the hp and Cannon he even the hp rep recommended the quality of the Cannon over the sprocket. He said photos are clearer and will last longer as well
A:AnswerYou can print any collage that fits onto the 4x6 paper. I use a program call PicCollage to make my collages and then send to print on the Selphy. Works great!
A:AnswerThe ink cartridge that comes with the printer only prints 4 photos as its a trial pack. I also bought the RP-108 Ink/Paper pack to go with it which comes with 2 ink cartridges and 108 photo sheets. Each ink cartridge prints 54 photos.
A:AnswerIt is a photo printer and uses photo paper, the largest size it prints is 4 inches by 6 inches. An email or recipe would be more cost efficient to print on a regular ink jet printer. You could in theory send and email or recipe to the printer, you can select this printer when your printer dialog box is up. But again, I’m not sure why you’d waste photo paper to have a 4x6 inch print out of things that should be printed on regular paper. Purchase this if you want prints of your photos that you can print at home. Otherwise I’d recommend purchasing an ink jet printer that can print up to 8.5 x 11 inch (standard letter size paper)
A:AnswerNo. This is not a inkjet or laser printer. It is a 4 pass CYMK photo printer. So you get photos like you used to get when you took film to the drugstore to get photos developed.
A:AnswerThe only way I have been able to do this is to take the photo into a paint program such as Photoshop or PaintShop (Corel) and do the editing to the photo prior to printing.
A:AnswerWell the obvious difference is if you have the battery you can be mobile with it. Print from anywhere that doesnt have power. If your just going to print from your house then the battery is not really necessary.
A:AnswerNo. We tried. That is why we bought the Canon Selphy 1300CP. We attempted to use this printer to print images to be transferred to a hard substrate sublimation blank, such as phone case sublimation blanks. This printer does not work for that process.
So, the Selphy 1300 is a thermal dye-sublimation printer. Yes, the print process is a true thermal dye-sublimation print process. However, for this process, the Selphy 1300 requires it's own special paper, which is a glossy, thermal paper. What we found is that when you print a photo to the special Canon paper and then attempt to transfer that image to a hard substrate, the dye-sublimation ink does actually transfer to a hard, sublimation substrate blank, such as a phone case blank, using a heat press. However, the problem is that the glossy paper that is made for this printer also transfers to the substrate and destroys the substrate by leaving some of the resinous, glossy layer from the paper on the sublimation blank. The heat transfer process does not work properly using the glossy paper made for the Selphy 1300. We also tested using high-quality sublimation paper to print to. We cut out 4x6 sheets of sublimation paper and inserted it into the paper tray. This paper did actually feed into the printer OK. However, the end result is that the printer does not transfer any ink or image to the sublimation paper because the sublimation paper is not a thermal paper and this Selphy 1300 cannot print to sublimation paper.
Sublimation paper is designed to receive/absorb dye-sublimation ink from an ink-jet style printer. Sublimation paper is not designed to work with a thermal dye-sublimation printer such as the Selphy 1300CP.
In short, do not attempt to use the Selphy 1300CP printer to do a dye-sublimation, heat-press transfer process, you will be wasting your time and money doing so. The Selphy 1300 does print very nice, glossy 4x6 photos. But, do not try to use those photos for any other purpose in a heat-transfer process, you will be very disappointed and frustrated with the result.
For dye-sublimation heat-press processing get an ink-jet printer that can take ink cartridges filled with dye-sublimation ink and use sublimation paper.
A:AnswerIt takes about 45 seconds for each photo to print it goes through a cyan pass a magenta pass a yellow pass and a clear coat pass. But the prints are made with dyesublimation technology which means the prints are instantly dry unlike an inkjet photo printer where you need to wait a little bit for your prints to dry before you handle them
A:AnswerThe card reader that’s built in is only for the Sd cards regular size not the micro. But the unit does have a USB port on the side to print from thumb drives. Try getting a usb compact flash card reader. Also this printer does not like to print raw files so you’re going to need to convert them to jpeg. The printer also doesn’t like tiff files this unit seems to work only with jpeg.
