Customer Ratings & Reviews

I love this mini printer. I got it for my book covers in my reading journal and it is amazing doing 4 covers on one sheet to fit the space in the page. Also love that we can give out family photos and share photos with friends at the drop of a hat.

Super fun! Easy to use, instant gratification. Picture quality is great.

Works great! Very portable! If I had to put something negative I would say the color is a touch off from the actual picture but nothing I care about.

Never worked correctly from out of the box. Every print we tried had blue and white horizontal lines across the photo. Followed Canons trouble shooting steps, basically just send the calibration and cleaning strip through until it stops happening, but it never properly worked. It’s just been sitting in our closet for the last two years because we can’t use it.

his little guy is quite amazing for its size. In the box the give you the Ivy 2 Mini Printer, a 6” USB-C to USB-A charging cable, 2 photo boards, and a 10 pack of the special 2 x 3 photo printer paper. Download the Canon Mini Print app from Google Play or the iOS App Store. The app gives step by step instructions on connecting the printer as soon as you open it. This app is quite the powerhouse. From within the app you can edit your gallery or camera roll photos. You can add text, picture frames, stickers, and adjust colors and filters, even a calendar option! The printer uses special Zinc photo paper, which stands for zero ink. It activates specific die based crystals in the paper that turn whatever color that is in your image. This means you need to buy the replacement photo paper instead of ink cartridges. At the time of review a 50 pack is $25 on Best Buy’s website, or $0.50 per Zinc photo. Another note about the Zinc paper. Be sure and LOAD the little blue card that comes with your Zinc paper into your printer as it comes. From what I understand it calibrates the printer for that specific pack of paper to make sure it’s colors come out properly. I spent about 10 minutes fiddling with my first picture before I finally hit print. You can have multiple pictures in a queue instead of printing one by one as well. It takes about 50 seconds to go from hitting print to warming up the printer to a completed photo in your hand. The result is a smudge proof smear proof photo that’s dry to the touch right away. No shaking or waiting for the image to develop. Another nice touch feature of the Zinc Paper is their stickers! So if you or someone you love likes making crafts with photos you can just peel and stick them wherever you want. a P backing that means you can stick your favorite pics anywhere. So maybe an art board, graduation cap, a cubicle wall even? The printer comes partially charged and takes about 45 minutes to fully charge. The battery is used up quite quickly. After printing 4 pictures my battery was down to 70%, which comes out to about 12-13 prints before you need to recharge. This also explains the printers quick standby and power of time. While fiddling with filters it’s easy to lose track of time and by the time you’re ready to print the printer has powered off to save battery. But just power it back on and reconnect to your phone and hit print. If you do decide to take this out with you to a theme park or night on the town where plugging into a wall socket isn’t an option, any battery bank used to charge cell phones on the go will also charge this to keep your printer up and running. At $99 at time of writing or Best Buy, it’s almost as much as some full size printers, but if you’re someone who loves taking snapshots of memories and decorating your spaces, this pocket sized printer is well worth the money to do just that. As long as Canon keeps updating the Mini Print app with new borders and other photo ad ins, this should last you for a long long time. The Canon Ivy 2 Mini Photo Printer is a well-built, well designed little printer that makes mobile photo printing fun and easy. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would and can see myself using it quite a bit for family get together and special moments or just for goofy fun!

I really love this photo printer. It has such a small and sleek design. The size of this printer can fit in the palm of my hand. This little photo printer fits in your pocket. Great to take to parties to share photos with others. Pictures look absolutely wonderful and high quality. Easy to use and print pictures with just a press of a button. I love how easy this little printer is! I love how you can take this literally anywhere and print pictures on the go. You can even make cute photo stickers which is great for scrapbooking. Right out of the box this little printer is easy to use. Just charge this printer with the USB charger into a wall charger and charge up device. Charges in no time. Loading printer is a tad hard at first but I was able to figure it out by sliding up on the device. Place printer paper into device and close. Turning on device is easy with just a click of a button. Before printing pictures or sharing photos you must have an app which can be found through Google play. Simple to download. Link up printer to phone and choose photo then print. You can even customize your photos in the app and giving your photos stickers or frames. Super cute idea! I love that the app even gives me options to buy new photo paper. Great product from a great company.

This is not my first mini photo printer, however, it is my first Canon mini photo printer, and I’m really impressed with the speed of the printing. The print speed is about twice the speed I was expecting. The device itself is really easy to set up, you just download the app, turn the device on, connect to the device Wi-Fi, and then the app should recognize the device. The app comes with a ton of templates to style your photos, and also lets you add text and and select the area of the photo that you want to print. One thing I found really interesting is that you can use non Canon paper with this device. I have some HP paper at my house, and I was able to print on it without any problems. I will say that the Canon paper turned out better when I used it. Overall, really happy with the printer, it’s very similar to other printers I’ve had, just a bit faster. It charges with a USB-C plug, which is my preferred plug, so really happy about that. The battery life seems to be good so far, and the device itself is ultra portable.

I've been pretty excited to give the IVY 2 a test run. Personally, I have never owned a small portable photo printer like this before. My last experience with owning a photo printer was 10+ years ago and you had to hook it up to a Windows PC to print. Needless to say, this was a very different experience compared to that. The design of the device is really nice. It's a mix of soft plastics with a lightly textured bottom to help grip to most surfaces. Having USB-C charging onboard is awesome since most modern devices use the same port. There's a simple red and green light near the charging port to show its charging status (charging/charged), along with a light on top of the device to show what the device is up to - such as printing a photo, waiting for Bluetooth, low battery, etc. The Canon Mini Print app has a LOT of features, so definitely give it a download if you're curious about its capabilities. There's everything from light photo editing capabilities, to borders, stickers, and plenty of other customization options. I honestly would not be able to list all of them here! The quality of the prints is right where it needs to be in my opinion. This device is made for portability, and as such, printing/processing speed, good battery life, and ease of use are paramount. I think this device checks all the boxes for what's important in this product category. This is made for people who want fun-sized small prints that they can share with friends, stick to a binder, or put up on their photo board at home, and it's perfectly capable and up to the task for those use cases. The only critique I can truly offer for the IVY 2 is that you might want to turn up the saturation slightly on some of your photos before printing. The photo prints don't look washed out or anything, but when most people these days are using smartphones with high quality displays and saturated colors, it becomes important to understand the difference between what you're seeing on a screen and what a photo should look like when printed. Overall, I'm quite satisfied with this little device. The Canon Mini Print app is constantly getting updated with new features and designs to use, the device is capable of firmware updates to further upgrade and refine the user experience, and I'm looking forward to seeing what Canon has planned for this device. If someone in your life is a photo lover and always on the go, consider getting them the IVY 2. I think they'll really enjoy it!

Nice compact photo printer that uses zero ink to take prints anywhere anytime. The print quality has just the right contrast & sharpness and uses the colorful dye-based crystals that are embedded in the printer paper. The cool thing is that ZINK enabled device uses heat to activate & colorize these crystals. It connects to Bluetooth instantly to print the photos almost immediately on 2 X 3 peel & stick paper and it is easily carried in a pocket to print the pictures on the go. I was able to charge it completely in almost 50 mins and lasted pretty long enough. Each print takes around 45 seconds to print. My daughter was so fascinated with this printer that she created a hand-made card for her dad's birthday. You will need a mobile device to be connected to this Canon printer via Bluetooth to be used by Canon mini print app (available at Google Play & App store). I wish it comes with a cover to be stored while not in use. The pictures can also be customized using the app features to add frames, stickers, filters, text, tile print, and collage print, these features give the picture a much-needed spark to make it trendy.

This little printer is a lot of fun. My daughter has a Fuji Instax camera that spits out Polaroid type pictures. This is very similar, but without the need of the clunky camera. This sleek little printer is about the size of a phone charger. I have the blush pink color, which is definitely cute. The printer was very easy to set up and connect to my iPhone 13. I downloaded the app and I just followed the simple instructions. There aren’t instructions in the box, everything is online or in the app. It was easy to load the packet of photo paper that was included in the box. For my first picture I found one in my photo library that my daughter and I had just taken a few days before. There are many ways to customize the picture, sort of like Snapchat. Frames, stickers, filters, you name it. Then I printed it out, and it’s just so fun! The paper is 2”x3” and has a sticker back. You don’t have to peel and stick it if you don’t want to, it can just be a picture. The cost of the paper is about .50¢ per photo, or so. The paper is sort of spendy, but it’s much easier than carrying around a dedicated (and boxy) camera. With this, you take a picture on your phone, which you already have on you. You can edit it to your heart's content and then print it however you want. It can be done right there, because it’s so compact and portable, or later. This would make a great gift!

Works great! Prints are good quality, and I love how easy it is to work.

So cute. Perfect for on the go. It fit perfect in my delfonics bag. I love the color. Best buy was the only place i could find this color and the newest version of the Ivy. So happy with my purchase.

Easy as 1-2-3, simple instructions. Install ap, load paper, take a picture and print from your phone. Small enough to fit in your pocket or purse. Best of all does not use ink!

Bought this for my granddaughter for Christmas. She was using it before we finished opening presents. That is how easy it is to use. The pictures came out so clear and the color was great!!! She loves it too!

The Canon Ivy was a replacement for expensive Polaroid pictures, it can make stickers, it can print custom images from my devices, which is much better than what I could get with my Polaroid.

I love this item! It’s handy small and prints quality pictures for what it is! Great for scrap booking and much more! 10 out of 10

I can’t believe how easy this printer is to work - and how great the little pics are! I love it!

Compact and easy to use. Portable and pictures come out fantastic

Incredible little photo printer. Great for making stickers for projects.

Easy to use and works great!! So easy and convenient