Nutshell Review: Polaroid Zink Pogo is a tiny battery-powered printer that prints on even tinier 2x3 inch stickers. Print quality is haphazard, but it delivers on portability and on connectivity: Works with cameras and mobile phones.
Pogo is totally fussfree: All you need is add the special paper, (10 sheets are supplied), charge the battery, and you're ready to go. Polaroid PoGo (Print on the Go) is based on a new thermal printing process called Zink (Zero Ink). Crystals embedded in the paper change color as they are heated.
The PoGo can comes with a hefty charger brick, but the printing device itself is as small as a cigar case, flat and totally self contained. The build material is mostly metal, which is unusual these days, but may be mandated by the need to lead off excess heat. There are two ways to connect to PoGo, it seems. One is by means of Bluetooth (my device had password 6000 programmed into it) or a USB big to USB mini cable which you need to supply.
I connected PoGo to my Nikon D3x dSLR, and the printing system started up nicely as soon as the cable was plugged in. However, the printer supplies no crop or border options: It was print the whole frame borderless or nothing. Printing takes about a minute, I noticed it varied from image to image. Print quality was really haphazard , I got some good and some dreadful results. Most the images had strange colors and were oversharpened.
Polraoid's Zink Pogo is a user-friendly pocketable device that really can talk to your phone or camera; however, don't expect too much realism from the images. This gadget should be viewed as a party toy. It won't supply good detail, or color but it will deliver stickers and photo fun.
Pros: Easy to use pocket-sized printer. Cons: Tiny mediocre printouts.
Verdict: An overpriced toy.
Pogo is totally fussfree: All you need is add the special paper, (10 sheets are supplied), charge the battery, and you're ready to go. Polaroid PoGo (Print on the Go) is based on a new thermal printing process called Zink (Zero Ink). Crystals embedded in the paper change color as they are heated.
The PoGo can comes with a hefty charger brick, but the printing device itself is as small as a cigar case, flat and totally self contained. The build material is mostly metal, which is unusual these days, but may be mandated by the need to lead off excess heat. There are two ways to connect to PoGo, it seems. One is by means of Bluetooth (my device had password 6000 programmed into it) or a USB big to USB mini cable which you need to supply.
I connected PoGo to my Nikon D3x dSLR, and the printing system started up nicely as soon as the cable was plugged in. However, the printer supplies no crop or border options: It was print the whole frame borderless or nothing. Printing takes about a minute, I noticed it varied from image to image. Print quality was really haphazard , I got some good and some dreadful results. Most the images had strange colors and were oversharpened.
Polraoid's Zink Pogo is a user-friendly pocketable device that really can talk to your phone or camera; however, don't expect too much realism from the images. This gadget should be viewed as a party toy. It won't supply good detail, or color but it will deliver stickers and photo fun.
Pros: Easy to use pocket-sized printer. Cons: Tiny mediocre printouts.
Verdict: An overpriced toy.
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