Compact photo printer are a great means to converting digital photos from binary info to physical prints, and Canon's dye-sublimation range adds the fun element there with its great image quality and extreme ease of use. Thanks to its innovative vertical design, the £520 from Canon has a very small footprint and is quite simple to carry around as well. Its integrated paper and ink cartridge is good for 50 prints before you need to dole out some more moolah and get another one. Take a printout and a single sheet is pulled out from the pack, does a little dance in front you when it's rotated 90 degrees, and fed again into the device, going back and forth four times before you have the masterpiece in your hands.

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You can print using memory cards, direct via PictBridge or by connecting it to a PC through USB. Preview your pictures on the LCD, and then choose how you want to print it. The printer allows you to enhance, and add little effects to the photos before you print - so you can crop photos, remove red eye, add little frames, calendar tables and speech bubbles. Definitely a step forward as compared to its capable, yet basic, sibling the CP740. Great image quality combined with its ease of use and feature set make it a worthy device to consider, even though the price and running costs are a tad on the higher side