It has been a while since I posted last, mea culpa. My life, COVID and other things kept my busy. Sorry for that. By the way, I did not do much on my other topics either. So, photography is the first to be revisited.
Folks reading my sermons will know that I love to have prints in my hands. Yes, darkroom stuff I love, have not done much lately though. Anyway, there is an option to get prints a different way, at least postcard sized prints. This could be achieved with the Canon Selphy series of printers. Personally I got a CP400, many years ago. I have not used it much. Now I was a little worried if there were drivers available for Windows 11.
It turns out that the Windows Vista 64bit drivers still work under Windows 11. Great news in my mind.
Here is the link to the driver: https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/selphy-cp400
I have not tried MacOS or Linux yet. Maybe later...
The next worry was is dye cartridges and substrates were still available for this dated printer. It appears that those are still manufactured, not only by Canon but also by 3rd party manufacturers. I ordered some 3rd party kits to test those out and compare the results to the Canon kits.
Today I am happy to report that I was able to print photos with my CP400 using a Windows 11 laptop. All worked well.
I still have 18 substrates and the equivalent amount of original Canon dye foil in my printer. As soon as those are used up, I will be testing 3rd party products. I intend to print some of the same images with either product for comparison. Not sure if there is a way, other than my writing, to report the results.
