Official Review:
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In the era of booming photo printers, the SELPHY ES1 is a real technological innovation thanks to its unique vertical design and all-in-one concept with built in paper tray and ink feed.The SELPHY ES1 is a mini photo lab that incorporates a memory card reader, which is compatible with Compact Flash, Memory stick, Memory Stick Pro, SD and MMC formats. It's also compatible with Pictbridge and Canon Direct Print and thus can work directly with a digital camera.The SELPHY ES1 printer represents the ideal photo printing unit, which combines quality printing, speed and user-friendliness.Included accessories: - Standard paper ink pack - CA-ES100 mains adapter- Mains cable
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Canon SELPHY ES1 Compact Photo Printer User Reviews:
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Summary: Canon Selphy ES1
Comment: I have had this printer 2 weeks now. My camera has an XD picture card and the printer uses SD. I have found one adaptor but it is £49. Also to operate via blue tooth the cables are £49.
What seemed good value for money is not turning out to be.
As for picture quality don't know have not seen one yet!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Some streaks
Comment: I love Canon products, so I was expecting flawless prints form this. For pictures that are rich in colour, it is astoundingly good. I'm looking now at a print of some red flowers against green leaves with blue sky in the background. Vivid and realistic do not begin to describe it. However, in a couple of prints I have made that have black or very dark areas, there is deep red streaking across those areas. In a shot of houses and trees silhouetted against a purplish sunset, you can see the streaks in the silhouette. Only visible at an angle, but it is there. In that picture and in another which has no dark areas there are also some mysterious red lines at the bottom of the print. They look like someone has just caught the edge of the paper with the tips of a few brush bristles. A charitable guess might be that these issues are specific to the trial pack of paper that came with the printer. In any event, neither of these problems deeply upsets me and for the vast majority of my snapshots, this printer is very good. But, these are definitely not lab quality prints. Consumer electronics quality, certainly.
I have no need for it, but if you have hopes of using this with bluetooth (Bluetooth gizmo sold separately), you cannot print via Bluetooth from a computer. Also, you will need to provide your own USB cable, since the printer does not come with one. It does come with a retractable cable to connect to a camera, however, and has slots for all kinds of memory card.
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Summary: connecting devices
Comment: As I agree with everyone else on the printing quality, there's not alot to say. But...using the printer didn't stop there for me! I wanted to link it to my Netgear WGPS606 print server. No joy...this is because Netgear don't support the printer. So...I then discovered the printer would support bluetooth. Wow, the adaptor from Canon (BU-20) was £50. FIFTY QUID! So what the hell, I stuck in an old Bluetooth adaptor from Sitecom (£19.99) into the Canon ES1. Guess what...it worked without a hitch. My Sony Ericsson phone paired up and printed a perfect picture. Then I stuck a Belkin Bluetooth adapter into a WinXP laptop and then printed without a hitch (I had to remember to right click the picture and send it via Bluetooth to my paired device, e.g. the printer, remember, you're not printing, you're "sending" the image to the printer). Also, because it was bluetooth, even though my Linux (Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu) distro didn't support the Canon ES1 through CUPS, I stuck in the Belkin adapter (F8T013) and had a go. Yup, it just worked, no problems... I love Bluetooth, it just works.
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Summary: Best deal in town
Comment: I bought mine from a shop closing down for twenty six pounds.
Easy to use,and cheap to run.
It can do passport photos too which saves a bundle,even at 90 it a great
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Top Quality Prints.
Comment: I have not owned this photo printer for very long but by god I'm glad I bought it . Having just used it on my holiday photos I have to say how impressed I am with the quality of the prints . The image , colour and depth to them is as good as any professional photos I have ever had .As it layers colour on colour and ends with a transparent coating to stop scratchs and marks it isn't the quickest printer in the world , but frankly who cares with prints this good . Best phottography buy I have made since going digital . Very Very Impressed !!!!
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