new photo printer

After a week of anxious waiting, my canon cp-200 card photo printer finally arrived on Monday. It’s already one of my most satisfying purchases. It was super easy to set up — I got the whole thing hooked up and printing photos from my s200 digicam in less than ten minutes. The prints are surprisingly good quality because of its dye sublimation printing process. I’d say that they come out to about or a bit better than Ofoto, which i consider the best of the online digital photo developers. Printing is really fast — a 4×6 photo takes a little over a minute to print, while card size photos are produced in a about a minute’s time. Plus, it’s just so darned fun. Watching the chemical process of a picture emerging on paper happen before your eyes is one of those simple marvels of science, be it in the darkroom, in a polaroid, or generated by this printer, as each layer of primary color gets coated onto the paper.

i got a USB cable today to hook the printer up directly to my computer, and i’ve gone nuts printing out all those old pictures i never had a chance to develop. it’s fantastic! I’m going back and making postcards/printouts of some of the nicer pictures i’ve taken over the years to send out to friends and family.

do you want a postcard? leave a comment and i’ll pick something out for you! or if you have any special requests, i might be able to honor those too. ^_^