Canon has announced the new Compact Photo Printer SELPHY CP-400, which cam produce a 4 x 6 inch photo four seconds faster than previous models. This printer is the replacement for Canon's CP-220 model. The PictBridge compliant printer can print credit-card size photos (with optional paper cassette option), photo stickers, photo labels and 4 x 8-inch photo greeting cards (with another cassette option) using a dye sublimation process. PictBridge is the worldwide direct printing standard that allows any PictBridge-compliant printer to print directly from any PictBridge compliant digital camera. Standard PictBridge features include the choice between borderless and bordered prints, optional date imprinting, print quantity selection, and trimming (cropping) of individual images. All of these features are controlled through a menu system on the camera's LCD monitor.
The Compact Photo Printer SELPHY CP-400 provides further PictBridge support with two added features; N-Up printing, which allows users to create more than one smaller version of the same image on a sheet (2,4,6,9, etc.); and Fixed Size Printing, which allows the end-user to pre-select a dimension for the print, even though it may be a different size from the paper it will be printed on. For example, consumers can print a 3 x 5-inch photo onto a 4 x 6-inch paper. The printer also allows consumers to print thumbnail sequences from movie clips from select PowerShot digital cameras. Up to 63 thumbnails can be printed on 4 x 6-inch postcard-size paper.
The printer will be available this month for $149.99.
