24 August 2009
Canon has announced the release of two new printers, the SELPHY ES40 and the PIXMA iP4700.
The SELPHY ES40 is Canon's flagship SELPHY Compact Photo Printer, delivering lab quality prints while being simple to use. DIGIC II processing with Auto Image Optimise technology automatically detects and corrects image imperfections - adjusting face brightness, colour, removing red-eye and reducing noise - whilst quickly printing high-quality pictures.
The SELPHY ES40 features voice guidance and is an easy-to-use, high quality and creative photo printer which talks you through the printing process.
The SELPHY ES40 allows you to be creative with your prints whether personalising photos, or designing thoughtful gifts for relatives. In Creative Print mode you can use 12 templates to create colourful calendars with your own images, add stamps, speech bubbles or clip art to photos of your friends and family, or frame your prints with artistic borders. In addition, images can be combined within a choice of six layouts, allowing you to creatively present your photo prints or give as a thoughtful gift to others.
Creative Print can also apply a number of sophisticated Image effects to your prints, which can be reviewed before printing takes place. Smooth Skin enables you to even-out skin tones so photos of friends and relatives look their best. Filters such as faded edges, soft focus and star lights can subtly give your image a unique, high-quality, look and feel.
The ES40 supports up to 15 different kinds of digital camera flash memory cards, with appropriate slots mounted on the top of the printer for easy access, and includes a PictBridge port for direct connection to compatible cameras. The SELPHY ES40 is even compatible with the microSD cards commonly used in mobile phones - enabling users to easily print out snaps captured with your mobile's digital camera. Alternatively ES40 can be equipped with an optional Bluetooth adaptor, allowing users to wirelessly print images from a mobile phone.
The SELPHY ES40 is available from mid September priced at £179.
The elegant PIXMA iP4700 is fast and easy to use, aimed at home users and photographers who want the ultimate performance. It intelligently combines Canon's class-leading printing technologies, giving users great-looking results - whether printing plain text and graphics-based documents or producing photo lab quality prints of the users' favourite images.
Finished in smart gloss black with gunmetal highlights, the PIXMA iP4700 delivers several new or improved features for 2009.
The PIXMA iP4700 can produce a single borderless 10x15cm (4x6") photo print in just 20 seconds.
The iP4700 is available from late September priced at £109.