By WARREN BUCKLEITNER
Published: May 15, 2008
What comes in buckets? Rain, fried chicken — even photo printers.
Canon’s Selphy CP770, which goes on sale this week at http://www.usa.canon.com/ and through retailers for $150, is a typical photo printer in an atypical bucket-shaped container. The printer has a color preview screen and five ports that allow photos to be imported from an impressive 20 formats, including all flavors of SD cards and Sony Memory Sticks. One notable exception is standard U.S.B. flash drives. While the onboard software adjusts for things like red-eye and brightness, there are no cropping options.
The printer snaps onto the bucket (not shown here), which stores the AC adapter, spare ink cassettes and two paper trays, one for four-by-six postcards and another for wallet-size prints, which cost on average about 28 cents each. The optional $80 battery pack provides additional portability, in case you want to combine a family canoe trip with on-the-spot photo printing. If things don’t go well, it’s nice to know that the bucket holds water.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/technology/personaltech/15printer.html
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