And like many of the other portable photo printer manufacturers, HP sells adhesive photo paper so you can use your photos as stickers. However, since you don’t have to worry about purchasing ink, it’s a good value compared to other photo printers.
The paper is a little expensive, especially for such small prints. The printer itself is well priced, for a device that's so unique and crams in so much tech into a compact form.īecause of its small size, the HP Sprocket only holds 10 pieces of paper at a time.
You can only print in one size, and while there are a few editing options in the app, you can’t adjust settings and connectivity selections like you can with some other printers we reviewed. The printer’s compact size also means it doesn’t have a lot of printing options. This makes setup easy because you don’t have to load a cartridge you simply open the tray and drop in the paper. The Sprocket uses zero ink, or “Zink,” technology to create images on heat-activated photo paper.
This is mostly because the colors aren’t as bright or vivid as when printed with machines that use inkjet or dye-sublimation technology. The slightly larger Polaroid Zip produced better-quality 2 x 3 snapshots, and in testing, we found that these limited-inkless printers can’t create display prints. Still, we also found the colors were more vivid in the landscape prints than with some of the other portable photo printers we tested. With the naked eye, we could just barely make out a grid-like pattern on each of the prints, and some of the tiny details didn’t make it through in our landscape prints. In that same image, we also saw that lines separating different objects in the photo weren’t well defined. When we tested print quality, we found that photos made with the Sprocket looked washed out this was especially true in our portrait photo test, in which the printer made the subject look very pale.
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