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Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

sverresverre — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:00:43 EST

Hey!

This was a cool product in it's own right. Why the need to pair it up with iPhone. I'm sick of this craze. It's a smart-phone. All smart-phones do the same thing. The camera is not great. It's no revolution. It just has a nice interface. It's like with that movie Departed. Everyone says it's the greatest ever, but you know that only because the cast is stellar... It's really terrible. The iPhone is The Departed, overplayed and overpublicized.

sverresverre

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Link Koriri — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:52:30 EST

that looks pretty darn cool, I want one for my SCH-A950 Samsung!

Link Koriri

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

FrankenPC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:33:46 EST

LOL! The inner-child in me wants to get my hands on one of those printers so I can tear it apart to see the micro-engineering inside.

FrankenPC

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Serolf Divad — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:58:52 EST

That Zink is pretty cool. I've been wondering for a while why no one had yet come up with a tiny printer like that. Leave it to the ex-Polaroid techies (I think the Polaroid name was sold due to bankruptcy) to come up with the solution. I just hope the paper doesn't wind up costing $1.00 a sheet like the old Polaroid film did.

Serolf Divad

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

DeadWriter — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:57:55 EST

Now you can steal somebodies soul and return it to them in no time.

DeadWriter

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Lenroc — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:43:10 EST

Well, since Zink is apparently short for "Zero Ink" (http://www.zink.com/), I don't think that ink will be the problem, ms.adriancole.

Apparently the "ink" is in the paper, so it's the paper that will be expensive.

The linked site mentions that the big announce date is tomorrow, 1/31. But you can check out the fact sheet on the site

@Inigo Montoya>>
A screen would seem to be against the point of having a small cheap printer that interfaces with your camera phone. (Doesn't your camera phone already have a screen?)
I'd be happy if it could interface with my camera directly somehow, or if it would understand the EXIF print bits that I can set on my camera and save to my CF card.

On the other hand, they do show a Zink printer with an integrated camera on their site http://www.zink.com/splash/Zink_Fact_Sheet.pdf.

Lenroc

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Inigo Montoya — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:13:50 EST

1) This thing should also have at the very least a SD card reader or an 8 in 1 would be nice.

2) tiny lcd screen so you could see what pics from your media card you're printing.

Inigo Montoya

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

ms.adrianicole — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:07:26 EST

ooooh... i want it for my MDA. that thing is sexy! i do wonder about the paper and ink capacity/price though. hopefully you can print more than 20 pics without having to replace a very costly ink cartridge.
keep us posted please

ms.adrianicole