• Canon Selphy CP760 – It has a plug and play design and is easy to use. It is a color printer and can print 4 in x 8 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled and can print directly through USB.

• Canon Selphy CP770 – It includes a bucket for travelling with it easily. It is a color printer and can print 4 in x 8 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB and Infrared enabled and can print directly through USB.

• Kodak EasyShare Printer Dock Series 3 – It produces great photos and is easy to use. However, it is a bit clumsy in design. It is a color printer and can print 4 in x 7.25 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled and has a camera dock. It can print a page in 1.5 minutes.

• Canon Selphy CP740 – This printer is more for the casual photographers. Prints are inexpensive to produce. It is a color printer and can print 4 in x 8 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled and can print directly through USB.

• Professional 1400 Digital Photo Printer – This printer is ideal for portrait photographers. It is a color printer and can print on A4 sheets (8.25 in x 11.7 in) and legal papers (8.5 in x 14 in). It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled. It can print a page in 1.5 minutes.

• Canon Selphy CP710 Compact Photo Printer – This printer is fast and is easy to operate. It is a color printer and can print 3.9 in x 7.9 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled and can print a page in 1.5 minutes.

• Canon Selphy CP780 – This is an ideal printer for homes and offices. It is a color printer and can print 4 in x 8 in photos. It is wired and is compatible with PC and Mac. It is USB enabled and can print directly through USB. It can print a page in 0.8 minutes

With the increase in the usage of sublimation printers, the use of sublimation ink has also increased manifold. There are thousands of sublimation ink suppliers from all over the world. Searching the Internet is the best option of locating your nearest sublimation ink supplies.

Pigment-based inks are those inks that contain some mixed chemicals to ensure that the pigments adhere to the surface of the paper and cannot be removed be mechanical abrasion. These chemicals are generally called resins or binding agents. Resins are used in solvent-based inks and binding agents are used in water-based inks. The advantage of pigment-based inks is that lesser quantity of these inks is required for printing because these inks stay on the surface of the paper. The intensity of the color is the same as dye-based inks. Pigment-based inks are more resistant to washes and are recommended for use where erasure is not wanted. Among pigment-based inks, gel inks are the most resistant to washes. They produce the most colorfast prints. To prepare pigment-based inks, size of the pigment is an important element to be able to diffuse smoothly into the ink solution. Pigment quality also affects the lightness, brightness, saturation and hue, four important print quality characteristics of the ink.

Dye-based inks are stronger than pigment-based inks and can produce more intense colors on a given surface of paper. However, they tend to soak into the paper. As a result, they may sometimes bleed and destroy the quality of the image. To ensure that this problem of show through does not happen, various quick drying solvents are mixed with the dye-based inks. In this case the ink dries quickly forming a film on the surface before the solvent van permeate the substrate. Some measures are also taken during the printing process, including blowing hot air over a fresh print or harder paper sizing (use of fillers) and using specialized paper coating. Another important technique is to use charged coating on the paper. If the dye is oppositely charged, then it is attracted to the paper coating and is retained. The solvent sinks into the paper. Cellulose is most commonly used to retain the dye.

A big advantage of dye-based inks is that the dye molecules in these inks interact chemically with the other ingredients in the inks. As a result, they perform better than pigment-based inks in interacting with brighteners and other color enhancing agents to increase the intensity of the color and also to enhance the appearance of the dyes.

When dye-based inks react with cellulose coating on the printing papers, they manage to color the paper permanently. Dye-based inks and cellulose form images that are not affected by common solvents like water, alcohol and others. An important application of this combination is used in check washing to prevent frauds that involve the removal of signatures. Many of the modern printers now use dye-based inks to print images that become permanent and offer glossy and better than lab quality prints.