Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
LG Electronics Japan is releasing a mobile photo printer called “Pocket photo” in early June. With the “Pocket photo”, you can take a photo with your smartphone and print it out right away, anytime, anywhere.
It’s similar in size to smartphones, so it’s easy to carry around.
To get started using it, install a free dedicated application called “Pocket photo” to a bluetooth compliant smartphone. With this app installed, when you take a photo with your smartphone, you can edit or decorate it with functions on the app and then press “Print” on the smartphone display. The print job is sent wirelessly, and 45 seconds later, it is printed out.
Ink cartridges are not needed. Printing is handled through special “pocket photo paper” (“ZINK photo paper”)
Estimated price: 15,800 yen Size: 72.4(W) × 120.9(D) × 24(H) mm Connection method: Bluetooth Battery: 500mAh lithium polymer rechargeable battery (charging time 1.5 hour) Compliant OS: Android 2.2 or later/ iOS 5.1 or later Accessories: Instruction booklet, quick reference guide, USB cable, battery charger, Pocket photo paper (ZINK photo paper)
© Akihabara News
7 Comments
Login to comment
John Master
5..4..3..2..1.. Japanese Netizens: Koreans have copied our products once again!
House Atreides
The technology for this printer is licensed from ZINK Technology, a spinoff of Polaroid. Polaroid also makes a printer based on this technology, the Polaroid GL10.
tacitus
Now that looks pretty cool. Better than sending pics to your PC for printing. Too bad there probably won't be a Winpho version of the app :(
badsey3
http://www.zink.com/
They have cameras with the printer built in. And the paper is actually fairly ($15 for a 100) priced when you realize you do not need to buy the printer ink (ink is already on the paper). First time I saw one was in a Korean drama and I could not figure how they got the printer into a camera.
WilliB
So we are back to Polaroid now? Full circle...
badsey3
Pogo size 3"x2" is fairly cheap. Good for scrapbooks and can be stickers.
Larger 3"x4" is about a $1 each. Like the old Polaroid instamatic.
BigdaddyJ
Japan has done it again. I remember the old Panasonic slogan "Panasonic, slightly ahead of our time.