Which Canon "compact photo printer"?

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On 11 Jul 2005 22:22:31 -0700, gaikokujinkyofusho@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi, I am looking for a small portable printer (that has a battery) but
> am having trouble finding anything else other than Canon's "Compact
> Photo Printers". The HP and Epson printers seemed to be a bit large.
> I travel to fairly remote places where photos are rare and electricity
> is equally as rare so a battery and uber-portability is a must.

The Epson may be larger than the Canon 4"x6" printers, but it does
have the advantages of longer print life and much lower cost per
picture. It can also operate from a lithium battery, but I don't
know how many prints you'd be able to make per charge, whether from
the Canon or Epson. As you don't have an AC source, you might need
to take along several batteries unless you won't be printing many
pictures. There is an optional carrying case for the Epson printer,
but you'd probably be better off getting a medium sized backpack
instead, and using it to hold whatever printer you get, along with
all of your photo gear, paper, ink and batteries.

Are the sites you travel to few enough so that a printer could be
left with one or two, and you'd only need to carry replaceables and
batteries?


> Can anyone recommend any of the Canon compact photo printers
> (cheapest w/ battery with least parts etc?) or maybe some other super
> small portable printers? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Not really, but how many prints do you estimate you'd be making
per year? The cost of consumables using the Epson might easily save
you more than the cost of the printer compared to most other
printers, especially Sony's, which are probably a bit more than
twice as expensive per print. I don't recall exact figures, but
think the Canon's prints are midway in cost between Epson and Sony.

There's also a newer model of the Epson printer. Same size and
shape as the old model, but it prints slightly faster and now has a
color LCD which helps when selecting or editing images.

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gaikokujinkyofusho@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, I am looking for a small portable printer (that has a battery) but
> am having trouble finding anything else other than Canon's "Compact
> Photo Printers". The HP and Epson printers seemed to be a bit large.
> I travel to fairly remote places where photos are rare and electricity
> is equally as rare so a battery and uber-portability is a must.
>
> Can anyone recommend any of the Canon compact photo printers (cheapest
> w/ battery with least parts etc?) or maybe some other super small
> portable printers? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers
>
> -Gaiko
>
i picked up the canon i80, right before the i90 came out. it fits well
into a computer bag and isn't too heavy. the ink banks don't last long.
color you can get 24 full page photos and black you can get 50 pages
printed. not much but the ink is cheap. you get two inks per pack. black
is 11 bucks and color costs 22ish.

i don't use the printer often so it fits me just fine. if i were
printing more often i'd have spent more for a desktop printer. i travel
all over though and needed something packable so i could write the folks
back home. (handwriting is illegible)

paid 350 for the printer. think it's now 250 sense the i90 came out. you
can also get a battery pack for it. last i looked which was last year
those ran 250ish IIRC. it also has wifi/bluetooth enabled. that though
also requires another hit to the wallet. i only have the printer. i did
not feel i needed a battery and one cord weighed less than carrying yet
another periph.

prints come out fairly good. not the best there is out there but for
portable printing it does a good job. i've been happy with it... well up
until i lost one of the O-ring seals over the red ink. now if i don't
use the color cartrige w/i a week i have to pop in a new one because the
red goes dry. if i get that fixed though it should do well again though.

cheers
kat