Canon CD-300 Digital Photo Printer
Details
- Availability:
- No longer available through SilverGelatin.net
- List Price:
- $549.99
- Average Customer Rating:
- 2.0 out of 5
- Manufacturer:
- Canon Computer Systems
Features
- 300 dpi photo-quality color printer
- Supports JPEG and JFIF file formats
- Accepts Type I and II CompactFlash, PCMCIA-ATA Type II, Video, and S-Video input
- Software driver for Windows 95 and 98 included
- Compatible with many digital cameras
Description
Discover the Canon world of innovative digital imaging with the dye-sublimation Digital Printer CD-300. Succeeding the popular Canon Digital Printer CD-200, it incorporates a number of enhancements for improved digital creation, speed, performance and image quality. The new design equips the CD-300 with front-loading capabilities for easy insertion of paper and ink cassettes.The CD-300 can print JPEG files with or without a personal computer, providing high-resolution and photo-quality prints. Optional paper and ink cassettes can also be used to produce miniature labels and panoramic prints. And each print is laminated with a special clear UV coating to extend its longevity by protecting against moisture, fingerprints and scratches - without affecting the print speed of the CD-300. Canon's CD-300 accepts many different kinds of media like Type I and Type II CompactFlash (CF) cards and others. DPOF and CIFF data from compatible cameras are also supported. Plus you can connect the CD-300 to a TV or video monitor to take advantage of a full-featured command interface that allows you to adjust hue, tint, brightness, contrast and sharpness.
The Canon CD-300 prints your images directly from many models of digital cameras without requiring you to first transfer the data to a computer. Plus, it features high-speed 300 dpi photo-quality resolution. With its moving-film carriage, the CD-300 prints up to 256 shades of cyan, then magenta, followed by yellow, and then it prints a protective ultraviolet layer to prevent image fading. The UV coating also extends the archival status of your prints by protecting them from moisture, fingerprints, and scratches. The CD-300 prints borderless (full bleed) postcard size, 4-by-6, and 4-by-10 panoramas. It use a dye-sublimation transfer technology that prints with high resolution to produce top-quality prints with the ready convenience of printing in your own studio, fully in control of the results.
The CD-300 is automatic and easy to use when working with images from 35mm mounted slide film, strip film, color/monochrome, positives and negatives, and APS IX240 cartridges, and whether or not it is connected to your computer. It also accepts Type I and II CompactFlash, PCMCIA-ATA Type II, video, and S-video inputs. The CD-300 supports JPEG and JFIF file formats.
With print speeds of up to 3 minutes per sheet and printing modes of high quality and panorama, you can determine the degree of quality and speed when producing your own photo prints. Easy-to-use controls located on the front of the unit include the power button, control panel, paper cassette inlet, ink cassette door, CF card slot, PC Card slot, and video-in jack, making it simpler to insert or remove memory cards, paper cassettes, and the ink cassette. Each cassette yields up to 36 sheets. The Canon CD-300 is compact, with dimensions just under 10 by 4 by 11 inches, and weighs approximately 6 pounds. --Barbara Price
Spotlight customer reviews
No XP Driver!
[ Posted: 2002-05-28 ]
This would be a fine printer. It produces lovely prints. The problem? For reasons I cannot fathom, CANON HAS DECIDED *NOT* TO RELEASE A WINDOWS XP DRIVER!! Now that I've upgraded my PC to XP, my Canon is a paperweight.
Don't Purchase -- Canon Not Supporting
[ Posted: 2002-02-23 ]
I own a CD-300. The quality of the prints is quite good -- indistinguishable from a regular 35mm print. However, as another reviewer has stated, avoid this printer. Canon has announced that it will not develop a Windows XP printer driver for the CD-300. To add insult to injury, Canon announced today that it is producing a new 4x6 dye-sub printer, the CP-100, which I have no doubt will be XP-compatible.
Wonderful printer, but cannot use on many computers.
[ Posted: 2001-12-04 ]
I have this printer and love it. Or used to love it. I just got a new computer which runs Windows XP. You cannot use this printer with a new computer because Canon has arbitrarily decided not to release printer drivers. Their nonsensical stated reason is that the printer does not support USB (universal serial bus). Windows XP could support this printer. It recognizes the printer as new hardware over the parallel printer bus and asks for a driver. Since Canon has decided not to support Canon products there is no usable driver. Canon has only released Windows 95/98 drivers.
Do not buy this printer unless you are willing to keep around a Windows 98 computer with which to use it.
I've bought my last Canon product.
Excellent photos...only print the ones you like!
[ Posted: 2001-01-13 ]
The only limitation on this excellent little printer is the photo sizes. However, contrary to some other models, this unit will print panoramic(4x10) photos as well as 4x6 prints. You can connect it to your television as an external monitor and tweak your pictures or add borders, or you can print an index sheet and decide which you like off of that. Plus, if you use it with a camera that uses a digital print order format( canons and some others) as I do, you can decide which photos you want printed directly from the camera, then insert the card into the printer and press print. It couldn't be any easier! As far as print quality, it really does rival those of a lab, and the paper feels just like it as well.
I used it over Christmas for a huge family get together. We would take photographs with my camera and have them printed in minutes. It's not every day that we get together, so it was really great to let everyone see the photos before they were ever printed on the tv screen and have them choose which they liked. I sincerely recommend this printer for anyone with a digital camera!