Canon SELPHY CP900 Reviews and Driver Download - Canon's latest thermal dye dedicated photo printer, the Selphy CP900, adds Wi-Fi as a connection option, but leaves out Wi-Fi Direct, which would make the Wi-Fi far more useful.
The CP900 is almost identical to the Canon Selphy CP800 Compact Photo Printing device that it's in the process of replacing in Canon's line. Both are highly portable, both hook up to computers by USB cable, and both also print directly from memory cards, USB memory keys, and PictBridge cameras. They also use the same products, with the dye roll and paper sold together, and the price per print out working out to 32 cents with the top overall economy size pack of ink and paper.
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The CP900's Wi-Fi is both a potentially useful feature and a missed opportunity, thank you to the lack of Wi-Fi Direct. Briefly, there are three ways to hook up using Wi-Fi. Infrastructure function lets you hook up to an access point on a Wi-Fi network, and then print from any source that's also linked to the network. Ad hoc mode lets you hook up directly between two devices, like the printer and a smartphone. But for ad hoc mode to be effective, both devices have to support it, and a great deal of smartphones don't.
Wi-Fi Direct is similar to tempor?r mode in that you can hook up straight between two devices, but only one of the two has to support Wi-Fi Direct to make the connection. It is . designed to make it much much easier to hook up than with ad hoc mode.
Right now there aren't a lot of printers with Wi-Fi Direct yet, but it's start to show up in some models. Unfortunately, the CP900 isn't one of them. If it were, the Wi-Fi would be much more useful, since you'd be in a position to hook up to the printer with any smartphone or camera with Wi-Fi. Since it is, however, if you would like to use Wi-Fi to print from a smart phone or camera that doesn't support ad hoc function (or support Wi-Fi Direct by itself), you'll have to hook up both the printer and the device to an access point first.
Canon SELPHY CP900 Driver Download Compatibility
- Windows Xp 32bit
- Windows Xp 64bit
- Windows Vista 32bit
- Windows Vista 64bit
- Windows 7 32bit
- Windows 7 64bit
- Windows 8 32bit
- Windows 8 64bit
- Windows 8.1
- Linux
- Mac OS
