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So, I've been hearing a bit about these adorable little pocket printers that print wirelessly from your phone, usually without ink (yes, they take special paper). They look so cute and I totally want one!

Does anyone have one? Love it? Help me. I need to be enabled on this. I want to print itty bitty pics for my planner (Nerd Alert) to augment what I'm doing digitally in there...

These popped up on Amazon under Pocket Printers.

http://amzn.to/1F4iY9L

I need one :giggle , but I need to be smart about. I'd love to hear what you know!
 
I've really been wanting one, too, so I'm going to be stalking this thread. The one I've been looking at is this Polaroid one:

Polaroid ZIP

I'm pretty sure I need one, too :)
 
I can't wait until one of you ladies gets one and tell us all about it! They are adorable!
 
I have a Fuji Film instax printer that I use on trips for our travel journals.
 
these are so fun! if someone gets one, please come back and review it :) i'd love to get one from my kids because they would love it for their smash book!
 
I have a selphy that I got for pocket scrapping 3 years ago, but I have to order ink online so I dont bother with it much. It is really handy though.
 
I have a Selphy too. I think it's bigger than these pocket sized ones, I love the Selphy, but right after I got it, my hubby got me a new Canon full sized printer and it prints awesome 4x6s so I've just been using that instead since it uses regular paper and regular ink. I've actually been thinking of selling my Selphy since I don't use it anymore.
 
Oh Boy... I want one now too! Off to research! LOL!
 
I really should not have opened this thread. Now I want one to. Maybe what my birthday money goes for now. The fuji instax one that Tracie mentioned is the first one that caught my eye. I remember seeing it at Michaels craft store once and thinking how cool it looked because it was like those instax cameras that I wanted.

ETA: After watching the video to the polaroid one I am really liking it as well. It looks like the cost is cheaper with the polaroid. You can get 50 sheets for 24.99 and with the instax you can get 50 sheets for 38.99. I like how the polaroid prints are water proof, tear proof, etc.... I don't see that being true with the instax prints though I could be missing that somewhere. I really like the old polaroid look with the white border with the instax one though.
 
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I got my instax last year specifically for doing journals while we travel. I really liked it for that (you can see some examples here). The main reason I picked it was 1) it was the most recommended one at the time (lots more options now I think) and 2) my daughter has the instax camera so we could share bulk film packets. I had no issues with the prints or using it, but I'm not sure I plan on using it for this year's road trip. I just want to go a different route, less smash book and more 6x8 sn@p album. I'm so torn though! Back to the topic though... I honestly have very little use for this printer and it makes me sad. I'm reluctant to use it because of the cost of each print... and with a color printer at home, I get cheaper, easier, nicer prints from it. I really wish I had more uses for it.
 
Oh gosh, I defintely know what I will be asking for next year!!! Just now, I need to make him forget the buy of my current phone... :giggle
 
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those are too cute and so handy. have no experience with them though. let us know if you do get one!
 
Oh, man! I never knew such a thing existed and now I want one! Some of the reviews are awesome and some aren't very good though. I'm interested to hear what you think if you get one!
 
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