welcome to Stata tech I'm Jared and
today we're going to take a look at the
Polaroid zip mobile photo printer now a
couple of weeks ago ish we take we took
a look at another mobile printer and I
actually really ended up liking it I
used it in a couple of shoots just to
give some immediate photos and it just
was a huge hit and I thought if I could
just get slightly better quality photos
out of a mobile printer I would be happy
and so I thought why not buy a Polaroid
zip and give it a try so we're going to
open it up and look at the setup process
put some photo paper in it and see what
happens now let's just get this open I'm
using my Kershaw kind of my go-to blade
for opening stuff it's a little beat up
but what the heck let's go ahead and
open up this box try not to ruin the box
on the process and slide this printer
out we've got kind of a QuickStart guide
here we've got the printer and then we
have some paper and it looks like maybe
a charging and a sync cable so I love
the fact already that it came with some
paper the other photo printer that I had
definitely didn't you know so I'm gonna
I'm going to do this set up video and
we're going to talk about this camera
here or this photo printer here but what
I really want to do is do a side-by-side
comparison of this photo printer and the
Instax photo printer so make sure to
subscribe to our channel here so that
you get updates when when we get that
video out hopefully we'll have it out in
the next few days so you can also get
larger quantities of paper this is a 50
pack of sheets here and that's a lot
more than you can get and the Instax
definitely take up a lot more space than
that alright so what we have back here
is a reset button we have a charging
light we have a micro USB port here for
charging and then we have the opening of
the printer we pop the top panel off
here and we have this little this
little tray which I would assume is
where we go and place our paper so let's
go ahead and open up our paper and as it
do not touch so make sure you don't
touch you got to pay attention to the
rules so let's go ahead and take this
out we've got the little smart sheet
here it says must load barcode facing
down so we're going to go ahead and drop
that in place flip this back over and
there we go so we'll set that off to the
side I'm going to power it up there we
go I'm going to grab my phone now you
have to install the app I provided a
link in the description below to the app
it's making some noise and it's very
slowly spitting out that barcode page
here I'm going to click on connect to
device it might not be ready to connect
so we're just going to go ahead and wait
let it do its thing
there we go we'll go ahead and remove
that click on connect to device it says
no accessories connected so you know we
may need to go into bluetooth so let's
just go ahead and take a look and see
what we have there we've got our
Polaroid zip we're now connected we'll
go back to the app tap connect to device
there we have our Polaroid it says make
sure bluetooth is on all that good stuff
we'll hit OK so that it can see our
photos and then let's scroll down to a
photo tap on it we can edit the photo so
we've got different editing options here
we can add text we can Sparkle up our
photo make some changes or adjustments
or whatnot and even crop and then save
that photo you can also make a collage
print if you'd like there is an option
here to actually share your photo and
then we can just tap on print and then
what's cool is it actually allows you to
rotate the photo here so you don't even
have to go into the editing you can
reposition and pinch and zoom on the
photo which is great that's a neat
feature and then just tap print choose
how many copies hit print and it says
image added to the print queue I'll hit
OK and so what's cool is it has a print
queue which means I can now go back and
I can start to edit or work on other
photos well it starts to send this photo
over to the printer and then we have
kind of our our process our printing
process so let's go ahead and see how
long it takes for a photo to come out
all right you know that's that's pretty
that's pretty nice this is a zero ink
process which means that there's no ink
cartridges or anything like that inside
of the printer
everything that you need is right here
in the photo paper and in the printer
itself so basically when you run out of
paper you just reload paper there's no
inks there's no cartridges there's no
nothing it's just simply putting in more
photo paper now what I like about this
little print here this is a 2 by 3 print
and it's edge to edge which means I've
got I've got no borders no edges now of
course in the app I can go ahead and add
some of those I there were lots of
little editing features here that I can
do I can kind of give it that Polaroid
look by choosing a border style or
something like that
so if I wanted to go for that look I
could definitely get it but for me I
want the edge to edge I want the photo
print I mean the only thing that would
be better than this is if it was bigger
but I love the fact that it prints
pretty fast
you know the print quality isn't perfect
but this is definitely on par with the
type of print quality that I would
expect from you know something mobile
something small what's nice about this
is that it's immediate you know the
print comes out and it's already ready
to go it doesn't have to you know sit
there for a while it's just a pretty
fast process so I'm pretty impressed
with this so far I'm liking this
platform I think what I really need to
do is go and grab both of these printers
and do a test we want to see which one's
faster I want to see which one is
actually more cost-effective to use over
time and you know most importantly the
quality but you know that's going to
have to come in another video so you
know if you want to check out this
printer which I'm really liking it so
far and I'm going to spend some more
time with it and then come back with
that side-by-side comparison to the
Instax printer but if you want to check
it out click on the link in the
description below on Amazon is where I
pick this up I got this printer here I
got this fat stack of paper which is
definitely an economical way to go the
price is pretty decent considering
you're getting everything that you need
in the sheet of paper
versus having to buy ink and paper I
think that the the cost is definitely
pretty decent so I'm going to spend some
more time with it I want to see how many
prints I can get out of this without you
know running out a battery charge all
that good stuff and then we're going to
come back and we're going to compare
them side to side with the Instax and
the polaroid Zink the little printer
here and yeah we'll come back for that
so click on the like button if you liked
this video subscribe to our channel if
you want to be notified when new videos
come out and if you have any questions
about this printing process here with
this cool old printer leave them in the
comment section below and we hope to see
you soon here on stata tech thanks a lot