Printed pictures come out of the front of the Mini 2 via a slot that runs the length of the front edge.
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That means that they don’t use ink, per se instead there are particles of colors that reside inside the photo paper until activated by the printer.
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In contrast, the HP Sprocket, the Lifeprint 2×3, and its sibling, the Lifeprint 3×4.5 (stay tuned for the full review), and the Polaroid Insta-Share are all zero-ink, or ZINK printers. You get a cartridge with enough ink and paper to print eight photos in the box. With dye-sub machines, the ink is solid until print time, which, in this case, occurs when your mobile device starts sending data to the printer. The Mini 2 is a thermal-dye-sublimation (often called dye-sub) printer. The right edge opens up to reveal a compartment where the combination ink and paper consumable cartridges go.
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It has very little by way of a control panel-just a power button and two status LEDs (On and Connected) on the left edge, and there’s a mini-USB port, a Reset button and a charging status LED on the back edge. Like the other pocket photo printers mentioned here, the Mini 2 works wirelessly from only your iOS- or Android-equipped smartphone or tablet. Though it may not sound like much, that inch or so makes a lot of difference when toting the device around-especially if you’re carrying it in your pocket. The HP Sprocket is nearly an inch shorter and weighs about 2.5 ounces less than the Mini 2. Shrinking the MiniĪt 1 by 3 by 5.2 inches (HWD) and weighing 8.4 ounces (the same weight as the original Mini), the Mini 2 comes in either all-white or all-black, and is closer in length to the Polaroid Insta-Share. The output, however, isn’t nearly as good as photos printed on a few closely priced five- and six-ink consumer-grade photo printers from Canon and Epson.
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And, much like its predecessor and the other portable photo printers, it prints passable photos. While it still prints 2-by-3.4-inch photos (other photo printers of its ilk print 2-by-3-inch pics), it’s almost an inch shorter than the original Mini, and very close to the Lifeprint 2×3 Hyperphoto Printer and its other competitors in size and girth.
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Kodak has fired back with its new Kodak Mini 2 HD Instant Photo Printer ($99.99). The problem for the Mini, though, is that, at 6 inches long-or an inch or so longer than these other models-it’s just big enough not to be all that miniature. Earlier this year, we looked at the Kodak Photo Printer Mini, a portable snapshot photo printer that, like the highly rated HP Sprocket, or the Polaroid Insta-Share, churns out small photos (in this case 2 by 3.4 inches, or business card size).