Sadly, no one was having a wedding for me to test, so I instead printed a shit tonne of photos of my cats. I tried thinking of where I’d want to go that would see me take photos and print them instantly and settled on it being great as a wedding/party photo booth gadget.

The battery pack needs to be purchased separately, from Digital Camera Warehouse it’ll set you back $83 – if this is something you’re interested in, it might be worth shopping around. As you can tell by the ‘portable’ part, it doesn’t require mains power to work, but it does require a battery if you want to carry it around for on-the-fly printing.

The Canon Selphy CP1500 is a portable printer that retails for $239. 30-or-so printouts (mostly of my cats) later, here are my thoughts. I’m neither of those things, but I do love a gadget. In fact, the tagline for the thing is: ‘Fun and Spontaneous Photo Printing’. The Canon Selphy CP1500 printer is marketed towards people who have fun taking photos and love printing them. I haven’t really thought about printing photos at home since then, so I was pretty keen to give the Canon Selphy CP1500 printer a go. The snaps were taken with a very cheap digital camera and if I had any of those photo printouts still, I’m sure the ink would have completely faded away. When I was a kid, I would use all of the ink in my parent’s printer to print off photos onto the shiniest paper I could find.

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