Pogo!

[CornishDaddy]

No, not a call to old punks, rather a natty little printer that I got for Christmas.

Basically this is a printer that is a little bigger than a mobile phone that takes no ink. The ink is in the paper (which costs about 15p each in bulk). The printer takes about 30 secs or so to print out the little photo. Essentially this turns any digital camera into the old style poloroid, the difference being that you can choose which photos to print, and also hook it up to any modern camera (even via bluetooth).

Might be too much to carry on a bike, but we will certainly be tucking this away in the landie. Going to take it to a new years eve partie and see how good it is tonight.

The main use is to give photos as presents to those we meet that might not have access to cameras and printers.

See it here (also the cheapest I think):

Buy Polaroid PoGoâ„¢ Instant Printer online at JohnLewis.com

[gixxer.rob]

I like that, to the point where I wish I hadn't seen it.

That would be nice to take on the bike so that you could give pictures to those nice people that you meet.

I like it.

[Hooli]

i wonder if they've solved the traditional problem of thermal printers yet?
thats the one where within a few months the printing fades away to nothing - think of old faxes, its the same technology.

[Bjorn]

Apparently the colours aren't great to start with. Still, I believe people in some parts of the world would be happy to have a print of themselves - no matter what the print quality looks like.

[CornishDaddy]

So - after some drunken fun we found that the photos are fine for the use we are envisaging, but certainly not the sort you would want to publish etc. Probably pretty much as you would guess.

Glad we have one, and would recommend them for our purpose, but I wouldn't buy one to replace the printer for your photo albums!

[photographicsafaris]

The Canon Dye sub printers are great;

I've an old CP300 that runs off its own battery, good for 36 prints, 210 pages including ink works out at £19.00 and the colours stay for a long time, no fading at all yet