HP Sprocket Portable Photo Printer
Last updated: January 23, 2024
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Product Details
In our analysis of 39 expert reviews, the HP Sprocket Portable Photo Printer
placed 11th when we looked at the top 16 products in the category. For the full ranking,
see below.
From The Manufacturer
With the portable, lightweight HP Sprocket Photo Printer, print photos from your smartphone or tablet just as easily as you post them. Make time spent with friends more memorable with instantly sharable 2×3-inch snapshots of every fun-filled moment. Use the free HP Sprocket App to customize photos with filters, borders, and emojis, scan printed photos, and view photo collections. Includes 10 sheets of HP ZINK 2×3-inch photo paper with peel-and-stick backing for instant photos or stickers. Do not use the printer if the product battery is swelling and causing product expansion
Expert Reviews
What reviewers liked
Features a lightweight design that is compatible with a tablet or cell phone.
This makes setup easy because you don’t have to load a cartridge; you simply open the tray and drop in the paper.
You can slap funky stickers all over your pictures before printing, as well as captions and other editing tools that should elevate your smartphone selfies above their usual standard.
The HP Sprocket Photo Printer ($129.99) is a tiny, cute, and convenient photo printer designed for printing from a smartphone or tablet.
HP's Sprocket Photo Printer lets you show your work to the world quickly, easily and with a little fun.
Thankfully, since HP has adopted the widely used Zink technology, you'll have plenty of paper options to choose from and little risk of buying into a dead-end proprietary format.
The HP Sprocket app is a bit more polished as well compared to the other printer apps.
The Sprocket is also roughly the size of a smartphone and weights a mere 6 ounces, allowing it to fit just about anywhere.
HP along with the printer, is also offering specially designed HP ZINK papers for printing.
What reviewers didn't like
It's somewhat expensive, but it has a lot to offer for the price.
The paper is a little expensive, especially for such small prints.
Print costs are high.
Zink paper is only available in a limited range of sizes, and the Sprocket exclusively uses 2-by-3 wallet-size sheets with a peel-off sticky back.
Print quality through the Zink "Zero Ink" technology is just average; I could see lines in most prints and colors are muted.
But, one thing that really bugged me about the HP Sprocket is that the image quality is occasionally kinda bad.
The photo paper is packaged in 10 sheet packs and probably has some sort of coding that won’t allow you to use other types of ZINK paper that are marketed for other brands of printers like the Sprocket.
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