Canon Selphy CP770 Portable Photo Printer
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When you think of things that come in a bucket, such as water or fried chicken, photo printers don't typically come to mind. Canon's Selphy CP770 Compact Portable Photo Printer ($150, available late June in stores and at www.usa.canon.com) is a typical photo printer in an atypical bucket-shaped container. Features include a color preview screen and five ports for importing photos from 20 formats, including all flavors of SD cards and Sony's Memory Sticks. One notable exception, though, is standard USB flash drives, and while the onboard software lets you adjust for things like redeye and brightness, there are no obvious cropping options. The printer snaps onto the bucket, which stores the AC adapter, spare film cassettes and two paper trays; one for 4 x 6 postcards and the other for wallet sized prints, which cost on average about 28 cents each. The optional $80 battery pack provides additional portability, just in case you want to combine a family trip to the shore with some on-the-spot photo printing, where electricity isn't around; say at a remote campsite. If it rains, the bucket holds water.
$150, Windows, Mac OSX
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