Customer Ratings & Reviews

Santa was a very popular guy in my house after my 13 year old (she is a forever believer) opened this gift. This item was a total surprise and not something she had asked for, everything I got her that was NOT on her list was a miss, but this was a huge HIT (wish I could go back and take the credit now!). The picture quality is pretty darn good, especially if your critic is a 13 year old! My older daughter has an instax mini and I would say the Canon Ivy 2 produces better photos and also has cheaper film. Another plus for the Ivy vs Instax is that you can print off any previously taken photo stored in your library. Set up was easy, she completed it in minutes (or less!) and was quickly doing fun edits and printing out photos as gifts for every member of our family. I’ll probably eventually get one of these for my oldest daughter as well and maybe one for myself, they really are fun, convienent, and easily portable. The Canon Ivy 2 makes a great gift for tweens/teens as well as being a product that meets or exceeds the standards for a more critiquing adult.

I love it so much I been looking for a printer for so long and finally found this one. Very easy to use and the picture comes out really nice and clear definitely recommend. the staff at Best Buy helped me to find it so greatful I got my hands on it

Me and my daughter love this. You can take it anywhere and print them wherever you are. Or you can just take your phone take pictures and print them soon as you get home. Love that you can edit them with names and cute emojis or backgrounds through an app. Better than the instax camera! My fav thing is you can stick the pictures wherever they are stickers! And or you can leave the back on as regular pictures.. :)

Just what I was looking for! Perfect for printing pictures on the go, and delivers the same look and feel of a Polaroid camera that I was hoping for. Love that it’s printed on zinc paper that has a sticker back if you want it. The only thing is that it will die quickly when printing multiple photos, but if you keep it plugged in while printing, you’re good to go! I definitely recommend!

I purchased this because I love capturing memories on my phone. So when I saw it was a photo printer that’s transportable I knew it had to be purchased. It’s been working really well and the cool thing is that the photo is also a sticker. Overall, is a wonderful product!

I own the original IVY and bought this one because of USB-C and supposedly longer battery life. On the original, it could make 14 prints on one full charge. Have yet to fully test the battery on this new one. I like that the image is smoother, however the colors and tint are a little off (original is better). The IVY 2 is slippery for some reason, the original IVY had a glossy finish but was grippable. This version is only a couple of millimeters bigger, but the difference in height makes it hefty and in my case, more difficult to palm. You have to test adjusting the color and tint/hue, but that's going to require wasting a print or two. Docking it one star because of that. Regardless of that "issue", it's still better than Kodak and HP mini printers.

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.

It does everything it advertises the only thing I don't like is that it does not have completely accurate colors but what can you expect from thermal printing it's impressive what it does with just heat and the filters in the app are great the sticker paper makes it extra crafty and the paper is relatively cheap the more you buy. All in all pretty much what I wanted out of a cheap portable printer.

Happy birthday and happy printing! You can see the printer on the table. We took photos as guests arrived, printed them and had them place them in the guest book with a birthday message. It was a great way to engage guests before the birthday girl arrived. It was easy and fun. I had no issues with connection or printing.

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.

It was really cool for printing out pictures on the fly

I got this one for my kids and they absolutely love it, they do art projects and I can’t wait for them to use it for school!!!

Love this printer! I got it to make Christmas ornaments but there is so much you can do with it. It makes great quality photos.

I got to say is the best thing ever buy the quality of the picture is the best

This was a great toy. I can make stickers out of my drawings. I can print right off my phone. Love it.

Very simple to set up and easy to use!! This makes a great Christmas gift

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!

This photo printer is really nice and convenient to print pics for decoration or dairy. But picture’s color too much yellow. I feel a bit disappointed.

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.