HP Sprocket Portable 2x3 Inch Instant Photo Printer (Blush Pink) Print Pictures on Zink Sticky-Backed Paper From Your iOS & Android Device

Bought this printer atleast 2-3 years ago, Long lasting. Even when you leave it for a long time and don’t print, its battery life is beautiful and even if you don’t have time it will print while in the chrager. The app is a bit tricky to get the hang of collages and how to zoom in items or how the printing queue works but in the end the photos are nice, the quality is great and the price is very affordable, wish i had a bigger version of this printer because i love it so much

This little printer is amazing!! It connects to my phone instantly and was so easy to set up and begin using. Small enough that it fits in my purse and goes with me everywhere. And the fact it prints on photo sticker paper is amazing! Great for my journaling and scrapbooking. Highly reccomend!!

I got the HP Sprocket as a gift, and honestly, it’s one of the most fun little gadgets I’ve used in a while. It’s super compact—small enough to toss in my bag or even a large pocket—and it pairs easily with my phone over Bluetooth. The app is straightforward, and I really like that I can edit photos with filters, borders, and little stickers before printing. The print quality is decent for something so tiny. It’s not professional photo quality, of course, but the images come out vibrant and detailed enough for journaling, scrapbooking, or sticking on a wall. The 2x3" size is cute and comes with peel-and-stick backs, which makes it really easy to decorate with them. The battery life is solid—I can go through a few sessions before needing to charge—and loading the paper is simple once you get the hang of it. It’s definitely not an essential device, but it’s a fun one to have if you like capturing and printing memories on the go. I’ve loved using it at parties, trips, and even just around the house.

This is a great little printer *for what it is*. It’s incredibly small and lightweight, and the app is well-designed and easy to use. The print size is a smidge larger than other printers, which I like, and the sticky-back Zink paper is perfect for journaling. But (and DO NOT come at me over this) you should not expect to get the best results without a little effort. There’s a reason that photographers use apps like Photoshop and Lightroom and it’s because NO printer will reproduce exactly what you see on a screen. Some of that is due to the printer calibration and some of that is your screen/device/camera calibration. If you demand high quality image reproduction, you don’t want a pocket printer — they all return worse quality in color, sharpness, etc., than a half-decent desktop inkjet printer. You are buying *convenience* with pocket printers. THAT SAID, a fair number of people are reporting a pink (magenta) or blue (cyan) cast to their prints that other manufacturers’ models do not seem to have, which is decidedly disappointing. Mine has a pink cast, hence my -1 star. There are instructions from the manufacturer for resetting the unit to address this problem, and you should use the calibration card in each Zink packet as recommended (and keep it for recalibration). If those things do not work, there are some simple edits you can make to your photo (before you open it in the HP app) to correct for the color cast if you otherwise like the Sprocket Select and are willing to sacrifice a few prints in the process. The suggestions below will not be news to most photography enthusiasts (let alone professionals) — I’ve included them here because even though I think that HP has considerable room to improve the thermal control of this printer (which is how the colorization occurs with Zink paper), I still think this little printer has a lot going for it and casual photographers can get much improved prints from it. 1) The simplest method: You can counteract color casts by finding the “tint” setting in your photo editor (ALWAYS be sure to make and work on a copy of your original image if you’re not sure you can revert the image to its original state by undoing the edits). If your prints have a blue/cyan cast, use the tint adjustment to push the image towards red/magenta; if your prints are pink, move the tint towards green. For relatively simple editors (e.g., iOS Photos), you might start by making a 100% adjustment and then backing off from there in 10-20% increments for subsequent prints (of the same image) if you’ve gone too far. The image may look horrible on screen, but that’s not the point. Whatever setting you decide gives the best result, apply it to future images (or their copies) before you open them in the HP Sprocket app; this won’t work 100% of the time, but should help in many cases. Also be aware that various editing apps for different devices will apply differing amounts of adjustment at comparable settings (e.g., “50%” in one app on one phone may be “75%” on another phone or in a different editing app), so you may want to follow some of the additional steps below to dial in the best possible correction, albeit at the price of a few more test prints. 2) If you’re willing to put in a bit more effort: pick a photo that is representative of your most common subject (e.g., landscape, portrait, nighttime) and choose one with a good range of values (light to dark) and that is not under- or overexposed. Convert this to black and white (monochrome) in your phone/tablet/computer photo editor (no fancy enhancing filters, just a basic conversion) and print the image. This will allow you to see which values in the image have the greatest color cast (highlights, mid-tones, or shadows), which can be hard to see in a color image. 3) Go back to the original color image (or your copy!) and target your tint correction by looking at the values (areas) of the image with the worst color cast in the black and white version. This is inherently subjective, and remember it’s not meant to look good onscreen. Make a print and assess whether you need more or less tint correction. Rinse and repeat until you’re satisfied enough, recalling that you’re not aiming for perfection from this convenience printer. 4) For the folks with more sophisticated photo editing apps that allow targeted editing of color balance in terms of value ranges — highlights, mid-tones, or shadows (e.g., Lightroom or Pixelmator Photo on iOS): Start with Step 2 to figure out where the color cast is the worst but instead of changing the image tint in the original color image (which affects the whole image), tweak the cyan/red or magenta/green balance for just the values in the image that need the most correction (e.g., mid-tones). If you’re not sure whether the cast is in, for example, the mid-tones or highlights, just pick one (mid-tones) and make a 100% change in the color balance relevant to the color cast your prints have — if the area you’re concerned with (from step 2) changes the most onscreen, you’ve got it. If not, undo and try the other value range. If you like the result and your photo editor allows it, save this setting as a preset and apply to future images before printing. (And you can edit two or all three of the value ranges with differing amounts of color correction!) 5) For the truly adventurous: follow step 4 with additional enhancements, such as slight bumps to settings like “vibrance”, “clarity”, overall brightness (if images print a bit dark) and contrast (if images look a bit flat). Your photo editor probably allows changes to brightness in the value ranges of the color balance section, too, if you want a targeted effect. Save as a preset and apply to future images before opening them in the HP Sprocket app for printing. Using these techniques, I was able to get a *much* better, more true-to-life color print after five prints (original; B&W; 100% green tint; less tint correction and more brightness; and finally, targeted value range corrections to color and brightness with bumps to overall vibrance and contrast based on earlier prints). You may not want to have to do anything to your images before printing - in that case, move along or take your chances and be prepared to return you unit if you dislike the prints. But if you don’t mind a little twiddling, I actually recommend this little printer.

This little printer is really fun. It prints out a picture in a matter of seconds, the companion app is very user friendly. Took me maybe a minute to connect with Bluetooth and that was that. No wires to content with and very compatible with iPhones. You can also take pictures, edit them, add borders or stickers, all right in the app. The quality was very good for the size of the printer. It’s obviously not going to give you the quality you would get in a full size ink printer, but I was pleasantly surprised. The first photo came out a little dark, so I lightened the next one I printed out and it was great. I love the fact that there’s no ink cartridges to contend with and the size is so small it’s very versatile and easy to carry around with you.

This printer was easy to set up and connect to my phone. Now I’m printing all the pictures from my phone. I even print the pictures and attach them to a magnet to stick on my fridge.

Bought the lavender sprocket. Love the color. It works great and it’s fun being able to print pictures as stickers! Great for scrapbooking, cards, mail, gifts, etc.

Pros: portability, ease of use, great value (quality:price) Cons: battery at <50% after printing 7 photos, slight difference in color from screen to print (to be expected in *all* digital print jobs, not just photos), slight striping (see picture) Purchased for recording memories and journaling away from home and to print photos as a school fundraiser. The printer had to pause for a cool down period (~1 minute) after ~5 photos so will still work for the latter purpose as long as I keep it plugged in throughout the fundraiser. While this printer will work for the former purpose (on the go journaling/scrapbooking), I will need to be conservative with printing if I am not near a power source. My guess is you can probably get ~10 photos printed on a full charge. Neither of these issues are deal breakers given the affordability of the printer and paper. There does seem to be occasional striping when printing large swaths of similarly colored areas without much variation/texture (skies and ocean specifically, see photo). Again, not a deal breaker, but should be noted if you plan on printing lots of sunrise/sunset/oceans photos. 8/10 would recommend

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Poder imprimir tus fotos faboritas en un plisplas es un auténtico lujo

El márketing que se hace de esta impresora no deja lugar a dudas: copias pequeñas, rápidas, sobre la marcha, y de calidad suficiente para propósitos ilustrativos. Si se adquiere atendiendo a eso, no defrauda. Si se busca la máxima calidad fotográfica es extraño, si no absurdo, buscarla o esperarla en una impresora de estas características. Estampas de tamaño similar a las copias fuji mini, pero en menos de un minuto, adhesivas y desde cualquier fuente digital. La calidad es la justa para que sean representativas en su tamaño y para propósitos ilustrativos, como adjuntarlas a textos a mano en cuadernos de notas pequeños tipo A5, A6 o para adherirlas en diferentes soportes. Vistas de cerca (con lupa), tienen un aspecto más próximo a una ilustración que a una foto, pero a la distancia normal de visionado, no, y para el propósito ilustrativo son perfectas y no defraudan. Tampoco se puede esperar un ajuste de color profesional, sería absurdo. Por otra parte, y afortunadamente, la Sprocket admite imprimir mientras se está cargando. La he preferido frente a las Kodak del mismo rango, porque la HP parece tener una app (en iOS al menos) más regularmente atendida que la Kodak, aunque eso podría variar con el tiempo. Es muy ligera, estéticamente agradable y pequeña. La tapa va por imanes, muy convenientemente, y el papel se coloca fácilmente. Aunque más cara, sigue siendo más barata la copia zink (en el pack de 100/hoy) que la fuji instax mini y más versátil al ser directamente adhesiva y digital, pero al final siguen siendo cosas distintas. Mi otra opción era una mini impresora térmica pero las copias térmicas duran muy poco, son frágiles a la luz, la temperatura, etc., (acaban desapareciendo) frente a estas zink que prometen muchos más años de duración, por no decir que son "virtualmente" imborrables. La copia es gruesa, es decir, no deja lugar a duda de ser papel fotográfico, sin embargo del grosor justo como para que pegada en una hoja de papel de 80grs., tipo Moleskine, no resulte excesivamente rígida, y ya no digamos sobre las de mayor gramaje. Yo creo que es un acierto si se compra para lo que está orientada.

So eine tolle Idee. Gleich ein Foto schiessen und ausdrucken. Ohne Tinte u man kann auch die Fitos kleben. Praktisch zum Mitnehmen und gleich drucken u als Andenken weitergeben. Mit USB C laden.Passt toll in die Handtasche. Finde ich echt praktisch.klare Kaufempfehlung.

Me encantó. Imprime las fotos bastante bien, no son fotos profesionales pero la foto se ve bien y se distingue la imagen. 100% recomendada