In this video I review the Canon QX20 portable dye-sub photo printer, and I’ll be upfront: it probably gives you the best portable print image quality I’ve seen in this “selfie printer” category, but I still can’t recommend it for most people. I walk through real prints side-by-side against a Polaroid dye-sub printer and focus on what actually matters in the output—skin tones, highlight roll-off, shadow detail, and how smooth gradients look (especially skies). Where the QX20 wins is dynamic range and tonal smoothness. The Canon prints look more natural and “correct” to my eyes, with better retention in bright areas and more usable detail in darker regions—especially in black and white. The Polaroid can look sharper and bigger, but it also shows banding in skies, can blow highlights, and tends to lean cooler (sometimes with a slight green tint in monochrome). But then the downsides pile up: the QX20 is chunkier, reloads are more troublesome (two-part cartridge + paper), the app preview crops inaccurately, and Canon’s 5:4-ish ratio plus thick white borders are just… weird. Add higher printer cost and about €1 per print, and the QX20 only makes sense if your number one priority is print quality—image quality and image quality alone.