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These portable printers connect to your phone over Bluetooth and make wallet-size prints you can share or hang on the fridge.
HP Sprocket
The HP Sprocket Photo Printer offers the best results you'll get from a Zink printer. Zink is short for "zero ink." Instead of printing with ink from a cartridge, Zink prints hold layers of ink in the paper itself. The Sprocket is about the size of a phone (a little thicker), and will connect and print from your mobile device via Bluetooth. The accompanying mobile app lets you edit your photos before printing, including tiling your images onto multiple sheets of Zink for a larger, pieced-together image.
The printed results are the best of all the devices we tested and have deeper blacks than other Zero Ink printers and cameras.
Polaroid Mint Wireless
This well-designed little package is about the size of a deck of cards and comes in a variety of colors. The Mint produces great results, though it sometimes struggled to achieve deep, rich blacks. Still it delivers 95 percent of what the Sprocket offers for considerably less money. Polaroid's phone app is also a little easier to use than HP's app, but it lacks the tiling feature found in the HP app.
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link
Fujifilm's latest Instax offering, the Mini Link spits out Polaroid-style prints using Bluetooth. Your phone images will print slightly larger than what Zink printers offer, delivering a 2.4 x 1.8-inch print -- perfect for fridge collages. The Instax Mini Link app is easy to use and in addition to photos, it can even print a frame from your favorite home movies. Using "Fun Mode" You can connect up to five devices to the Mini Link to combine, mix, and match images. I found the embedded QR codes for audio gimmicky, but many users enjoy it.
Here's another assignment: round up three of our favorite photo printers and tell us about the standout features on each. I like it when this page highlights what's unique about each, and in this case that should be easy since there are different printing technologies at work. Also, it's fine to point out faults, critique the quality, and to include first-person observations.
The 3 we're highlighting:
Polaroid Mint Wireless
Fujifilm Instax Mini Link
HP Sprocket
Each product gets about 70 words.
The story should also have a 25-word dek to set it up. Feel free to steal what I sent you in the lookbook.
Here are some examples of Top 3 pages we've done in the past:
https://www.wired.com/story/compact-cameras-budding-photographer/
https://www.wired.com/story/top-3-tiny-compact-keyboards/
https://www.wired.com/story/base-layers-for-warmth-and-comfort/
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