Samsung has really hit the ground running with this printer, there first entry into the crowded dedicated photo printer market. The SPP-2040 produces prints that are a stiff competition to their photo lab counterparts. The choice of dye-sublimation technology over one of the many iterations of inkjet was a smart one on their part, as dye-sub blows inkjet out of the water. The only inkjet printer that comes close to the close in class and price to the SPP-2040 is the Canon Selphy series, and even then the only Selphy models rated on par with the SPP-2040 by some of my fellow reviewers are those that use dye-sublimation.