Great Photo Printers Under $150

This photo printer is flexible and powerful enough to be your home office printer as well as your photo printer. It's not portable like some of the other picks, but I like that it has two paper trays (I load photo and plain paper at the same time so I don't have to keep changing paper). Colors look great, thanks to five ink tanks including two different black inks (one for text, the other for photos). The Pixma flies through photo printing, putting out a 4x6 picture in less than a minute, and an 8x10 in only a minute and a half. Text and photos come out sharp and clear, with document printing rivaling laser quality. The photos you print will last for 100 years, Canon claims, in an album (and 30 years for photos behind glass).

If you’re looking for a portable photo printer, the new Selphy CP760 is hard to beat; at just over 2 pounds, this is a printer that's easy to carry around. It lacks many advanced editing features beyond red-eye removal, but otherwise it does a great job. Unlike the other printers here, this one isn’t an inkjet printer; it uses dye-sublimation technology that heats dye from a ribbon and transfers it to the paper. Even though the Selphy has to make several passes to apply the dye and a protective coat, it’s still pretty fast, producing a 4x6 photo in just over a minute, and photos come out looking great. The $50 Bluetooth option would make it even better.

A large 4.8-inch touchscreen sets the HP Photosmart A626 photo printer apart from others. This HP printer's screen displays thumbnails from memory cards, flash drives, and PictBridge; the large screen makes editing easy. The editing options, including removing red-eye, adding clip art, and even drawing with the included stylus are fun to use. It's portable, with a handy built-in handle and weighing in at just over 3 pounds, and it can be powered by an optional battery (about $50) that HP says should last through 75 photos. It won’t win any awards for speed, taking almost two minutes to print a single 4x6 photo, and it's light on color-editing options, but for a basic photo printer, it does a great job.

For parties, outings, sports events, and anywhere else where you may want to print small photos quickly and without the hassle of wires, you're going to love the PoGo. If you want your pictures to look spectacular, you'll be dissatisfied; but this little printer is not meant to compete with a more expensive and full-blown compact photo printer. Carry your printer around in your back pocket, print wherever you are, and stick the photos anywhere they'll stick! A lot of fun in a small package.

Kid sister to the Photosmart A626 photo printer, this HP photo printer does a lot for a little money (it retails for about $100). I think a very handy feature is the built-in Photo Fix that simplifies the process of making prints look their best, with simple adjustments for enhancing color, sharpness, and removing red-eye. It's compatible with PictBridge and can print 4x6 or 4x12 (panorama) photographs. You'll have to be patient in waiting for your pictures to come out, with decent prints taking over a minute, but one thing that's particularly handy with this printer is that it can even print wirelessly with an optional Bluetooth adapter. Now that's truly portable!