Canon is a huge brand in the worlds of conventional, digital and video photography. The CD-300 uses dye-sub technology to produce 4-inch wide prints from a variety of image sources. You can plug in your video camera or any other suitable video source, you can connect the CD-300 to a PC via a parallel printer port or you can print directly from PCMCIA or Compact Flash memory cards. If your camera uses a SmartMedia memory card, you can obtain a PCMCIA adapter. If you aren't using your PC, you can use a TV as a monitor.

Two paper sizes are available: 6x4 inches and wide-format 9.5x 4 inches. Prints are borderless thanks to pre-perforated media. You get 36 sheets of paper and enough 'ink' in a cassette supplied as a single pack, which has a combined cost of £18, or 50p a sheet. That may seem very expensive compared to mail order £2.99 plus free film processing, but it's easy to forget that this way you'll only print the relatively small number of pictures you actually wanted in the first place.

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Overall, the 300dpi picture quality was very good; 6x4 inch pictures emerged after a couple of minutes and the printer was easy to use, though the on-screen preview system was annoyingly slow.