Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer

I definitely love the portability of this printer. That’s one major plus point and the reason I give 3 stars. I use the printer to print moments I want to remember. Then I paste them onto a notebook and decorate the pages.

However, for future buyers, here’s some bad encounters in my purchase that you may wanna take note:

1. note that the description says it takes 1 min to print. that doesn’t include the time u take to send the file over. so if you are sending a 3mb file, it’ll take a while.

2. short batt life.

3. visible streaks on photo especially if printing light colours

Ich find den Taschendrucker cool! Ok, er druckt zwar nicht die Bilder perfekt aus, wie im Shop oder einem normalen Drucker, aber was will man bitte erwarten!? Für mich ist die “Polaroid Qualität” sogar gewollt. Und so schlecht wie manche behaupten druckt er auch wieder nicht, zumindest meiner nicht! 😉

Der Akku hält zwar nur 10 Bilder lang, aber ich will ja auch nicht damit 1000 drucken. Als Gegenleistung kann man aber mit angeschlossenem Ladekabel drucken.

Einziges Minus, wofür aber Polaroid nix dafür kann ist, dass das drucken vom IPhone per Bluetooth nicht geht, weil die Funktion beim IPhone und co. nicht verfügbar ist. Leider gibt es zur Zeit auch noch keine Apps, die das machen könnten, zumindest hätt ich keines gefunden.

Klasse find ich die Kleberückseite der Papiere. So kann man die Bilder dann schnell wohin kleben ohne andere Hilfsmittel.
Die Papiere gibt es immer im 10er-Pack, weil das Papierfach auch nicht mehr fassen kann. Beim ersten mal Drucken hab ich versehentlich das Blaue Papier vergessen. Das benötigt der Drucker um sich auf das Papier zu kalibrieren. Druckte aber trotzdem, danach aber besser.

Pro:
>Klein (ein bisschen größer als das IPhone)
>Druck per Bluetooth oder USB anschluss
>PicBridge kompatibel
>Schnell druckbereit
>Kleberückseite der Papiere
>Polaroid Effekt

Kontra:
>Ausdruck vom IPhone derzeit nicht möglich
>Akkuleistung gering
>Keine Perfekte Druckqualität

Fazit:
Ich würde ihn mir wieder kaufen.
Er ist klein, leise und die Bilder bekommen den alten Polaroid Effekt ohne Bearbeitung. Einfach perfekt für schnelle Ausdrucke wie z.b. auf Party’s usw. 😉

Útil para impresiones puntuales y sin grandes pretensiones. Básicamente su uso ha sido para trabajos escolares y poco más. Las fotos son de una calidad regular pero son adhesivas con lo que resultan muy prácticas …. papel de impresión es un poco caro y difícil de encontrar…

Un ottimo acquisto! Sono davvero entusiasta le foto sono ben fatte la comodità di poter scegliere quali stampare e soprattutto senza preoccuparsi di finire l inchiostro. Ho avuto difficoltà con la stampa con l iPhone ma con il Samsung è stato davvero facile, peccato che non funziona con la batteria ma per il prezzo pagata è davvero irrisorio

I have been having so much fun with this product, right at home. The intent of purchasing this was to take on my road trips and travel journal as I went (something I’ve always wanted the ability to do). I have yet to take a road trip since buying, but have played with the printer a lot at home. You have to know what to expect when purchasing this to be happy with the product. You will not get perfectly printed prints from this, like shown on the box/website advertising. The images have a definite blue-green cast to them, like Polaroids of the past and they tend to print on the dark side. I’m okay with this and knew that going in having read the reviews. I find the color cast charming and I only need the image to remind myself of what i’m journaling, and not a perfect representation of what i’m talking about. If I needed that I will print from my home printer or send to a lab.

I do find that in some cases a few prints in I get some streaking. If I run the blue sheet that came with the ZINK photo sheets back through before running my print, I find the streaking goes away. I always run the blue sheet back through before I start printing (if it’s been a few hours or a few days) and re-run it through every few prints just to make sure I have no streaking. I think some of it depends on the paper pack and how old it might be, as the other day I did 10 prints back to back without using the blue sheet between and had no issues with streaking. None of my paper packs have expiration dates on them, as I’ve read, and if you look closely at the packs you can see where they have been rubbed off with alcohol. I’m not sure why they’ve done this, but you can search and read more about it online.

My battery doesn’t last very long, but have found a friend that has the printer say they find the battery to last a good amount of time, so i’m thinking my battery is just defective. This printer does not print directly from the iPhone, but if you are jailbroken there is an app that can be purchased through Cydia for $10 called Celeste Bluetooth File Sharing. They have just released a Beta test for working on the new iOS 5.1, but i’m not sure if you can test the Beta if you hadn’t purchased it previously. So far with the Beta it works great. I just go into my photo through the iPhoto app, and send it via Bluetooth to the printer. Prints in a jiffy. This is the only way I’ve found to print from the iPhone to this printer. I printed to this from my husbands Android phone without any special app’s.

If you have an iPhone, but it’s not jailbroken, there are other ways to print to this printer. If you shoot with a DSLR you can print directly from the camera’s interface. Starting with both devices off, plug the camera into the printer with the cable that came with your camera for USB data transfer. Turn on the printer and then your camera. Go to the photo you want to print on your camera’s viewer and it should automatically pop up instructions/print dialog for printing. If you happen to have a Mac or a PC with Bluetooth capability you can also print to the printer via that. This option works well if you have an iPhone, but it’s not jailbroken. Because of the Cloud and the ability to put your phone images on you computer via the Cloud, you can easily find those photos on your computer and then send via Bluetooth to the printer. This also works well if you have a photo from an email or other device on your computer you’d like to print. Macs are great with their built-in Bluetooth, but if you have a PC without you can purchase an inexpensive Bluetooth dongle online ($5 range on eBay).

I love this printer, and would give it a 5 star rating if the prints were a little better. Because their advertising shows crystal clear, perfect color prints and that’s not what you are getting, i’m giving this 4 stars. With that said, I love this product and would purchase it again in a heartbeat. Know what to expect and you will be very happy with this.