Polaroid PoGo Portable Bluetooth Printer
Polaroid Kindly sent me one of their PoGo Zink (Zero Ink) bluetooth portable printers to have a play with and over this last week i have done just that.
It’s not that bad, pretty good fun in fact and I can see lots of uses other than the ones they advertise.. but be warned some of them may get you into trouble…
There is no ink to buy as some kind of crystal technology is incorporated into the paper but at £2.99 for ten 76×50 mm photo stickers.. You may want to use them sparingly unless you have massive pocket money or a decent job.
I found the battery pretty good and love the fact i could send from my laptop’s bluetooth too.
As far as the print quality goes.. I found it as good as i expected for a device this fresh out. Make sure you occasionally place a photo in upside down to clean the device (or whatever it does) this seems to remove banding in the colours that can happen. Once again it’s the content that’s the star.
If Polaroid come out with a 6×4 version I would certainly buy one if the image quality was up to scratch..
Please check out the video for a look..
October 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I’ve got the pic you took with it at Tuttle here in front of me. While it’s clearly not going to win any awards for print quality, it is a GREAT way of carrying a means for transfering instant momentos of places and times around, particularly to non-geeks.
As you say, a 6×4 version would be outstanding. Being able to visit relatives and print them copies of photos taken there and then would be amazing.
Sx
October 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
A fan of Polaroid in the past?? I’ve heard about your sorts before!! Strange how Polaroid cameras died out once digital cameras went mainstream. I’m sure it had nothing whatsever to do with pictures of naked spouses,
October 14th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Yeah this is fab for visiting your mates with. Instant blue tooth pictures for every one and like you said- no excuses its all done and over with.
I think it will be great for graffers & street art – portable stickers, you could snap people in the street and slam their picture all over their vicinity :O
I love it already.
October 14th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
That was the most entertaining thing I’ve seen all week, thanks Christian! You’re so dodgy…I like it
October 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Now thats just a really good little thing. My 16 year old watched that with me “Wow, thats COOL” was the verdict. He said he and his mates would love that.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
[...] The detective called me a looky-loo. How funny is that? I believe it is a ‘technical’ term for someone that wants to be nosy?! I don’t know. I’m not up to date with all the ‘police lingo’. It may be true, but the last time I checked it wasn’t against the law to take pictures or to be curious. I didn’t get out of the van. I didn’t go on the crime scene. I didn’t sit there and stalk the investigators. Here is the offending photo and here are the pictures posted by the newspaper. I guess they haven’t heard of citizen journalism. It’s too bad I didn’t have the new Polaroid printer to make myself a press pass! [...]
October 31st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Very cool little gadget Christian. Perfect for travelling as you say. I’ve been taking a small Canon printer away with me to give people photos but it’s a tad fickle and needs 12V power – the pogo looks dead easy.
November 30th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
i love mine! great anytime, anywhere for that impulse photo but haven’t found a naughty use for it ….. yet ;o)