SnapJet: A portable, open source Polaroid printer for smartphones

48 点作者 lhh超过 10 年前

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roywiggins超过 10 年前

I think people here aren't getting what this is. It looks like it transfers the image from the phone to a polaroid film cartridge optically. It's basically a smartphone version of a Daylab enlarger.Which is super-bleeding-cool, because there aren't many important moving parts not provided by the smartphone or the film cartridge. It's not a scanner and a printer. The only way to beam an image to it over bluetooth would be to embed a smartphone screen and backlight into it, which I gather it is not doing. It's taking an analog "contact print."

joshstrange超过 10 年前

Let me start by saying I really like the idea of a portable color picture printer. That said the idea of scanning in a picture I have digitally to print it seems a roundabout way to approach this problem. A few google searches revealed this [0] which is a small printer made by Polaroid to do just that (Note: it's a little older and does not work with iPhone but does work with some Android phones). It's $130 (not though Amazon and not prime) and has 4.5 stars (I skimmed the low reviews and I'd bet SnapJet would suffer from the same issues: battery life, picture quality, streaking after a few uses). It would appear that Polaroid is no longer in the stand-alone mobile printer business as they don't list the product on their site and it's only on reseller/auction sites now.I find it hard to believe that the team behind SnapJet can deliver a product as good for close to the same price as Polaroid. Also I'd bet that Polaroid had a good reason for pulling the plug on their mobile printers (Demand, quality issues, high printing costs, etc). This seems like a very high risk KS (not that there are a large number of "sure thing" KS projects but still).Lastly I see no mention of printing over BT/BLE which is the only reason I would buy it.[0] <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Polaroid-CZA-20011B-Instant-Mobile-Printer/dp/B0019UGCLG/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1416858635&sr=1-1&keywords=polaroid+pogo&pebp=1416858645210" rel="nofollow">http://smile.amazon.com/Polaroid-CZA-20011B-Instant-Mobile-P...</a>

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msandford超过 10 年前

Alright so a bunch of people don't seem to understand how this thing works, and aren't reading the Kickstarter.This is not actually a PRINTER. It's a photo paper exposer.What's the difference? Printers work by somehow applying ink to paper. Photo paper works by already having the ink impregnated within it and exposing it to light causes the ink to become active and the result is that you get an image.So the phone is an integral part of the process; without it you have no colored light source and thus, no printer.Why did they use the word "printer" when it's not actually a printer in the technical sense of the word? Because the difference is lost on most people.<a href="http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/printers.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/printers.htm</a>EDIT: changed to a better link

cphuntington97超过 10 年前

I would buy one without the "screen scanner" because I'm an otherwise knowledgeable user and scanning the display sounds clunky and stupid.

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bootload超过 10 年前

"... prints out a high resolution color image on Instax Mini or Polaroid 300PIF film. ..."Access to Film is the weakness here. Polaroid used to be pretty cheap & widely available ~ <<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/polaroid>" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/tags/polaroid></a> Then Polaroid stopped producing it.Want to get that 5x4" old-school Polaroid look? try the "Impossible Instant black lab" ~ <a href="https://shop.the-impossible-project.com/shop/cameras/impossible" rel="nofollow">https://shop.the-impossible-project.com/shop/cameras/impossi...</a> It uses the old 600 Polaroid format with new film chemistry. I love the way Impossible is improving the film. It's getting close to what the Polaroid reproduced at it's peak. cf <<a href="https://www.the-impossible-project.com/>" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-impossible-project.com/></a>

microtheo超过 10 年前

I love it, it is so retro and simple! I hope they will deliver an app for Windows phone as well! I just wonder how they can align the display on the device (if you have some less famous android phone) and how they can detect how much light exposes the film!

comboy超过 10 年前

I'm a bit skeptical. I don't know about you but my smartphone screen isn't always super clean. And yes, you can clean it before using it, but I'd love to see how quality looks like in a closeup.

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chx超过 10 年前

Well, I am surely not social enough but my phone-to-paper picture usage involves mostly postcards and there are excellent apps for that already. It's so much easier to snap a picture on the phone click two buttons, a week later someone gets a postcard than printing and then sending it as a physical postcard.

leeoniya超过 10 年前

why not just use NFC or bluetooth?seems like a lot of additional engineering/hardware for worse quality. even the minor hassle of a cable connection would be worth it, no one is going to carry this thing around, it's gonna be on some desk somewhere where a dock or cable would easily be no problem.

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JonLim超过 10 年前

I'd be interested in picking one up so I can print little pictures of my niece (and future nieces and nephews) on the fly for their enjoyment, but Dec 2015 is just a bit further away than I'd like.Happy to pick one up when they're out for realsies though, hope you reach your funding goal!

jrobn超过 10 年前

LG PD239W Pocket Printer (BLE/NFC)[0]. How is SnapJet better than this?[0] <a href="http://m.lg.com/us/cell-phone-accessories/lg-PD239W-pocket-photo-printer" rel="nofollow">http://m.lg.com/us/cell-phone-accessories/lg-PD239W-pocket-p...</a>

moe超过 10 年前

This looks like it could be a fun party gag, if it was about the size of an iPhone or smaller and very cheap.But at this size and price point? I don't see the appeal over one of the mobile dye-sub printers, some of which are smaller than this device.

deutronium超过 10 年前

Wouldn't you get a better resolution though with a portable dye-sub printer, as theres no intermediary optical process.To clarify this, I've got a Canon one that uses C M Y layers if I recall correctly and outputs at a resolution of 300PPI.

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brador超过 10 年前

I love the idea, but the polaroid paper is 0.75 a print. I see people buying, using a few times, then shelving. If it was somehow possible to get that price down to 0.20 or even 0.10 per print this would take over the world.

brianmtully超过 10 年前

There seems to be a lot of comments on how this product seems dated. It prints polaroids. Polaroids are dated. Relax, it's fun low tech.

hnriot超过 10 年前

shown with the iPhone 4, what's up with that, it's really a contact printer (as in the old days with an enlarger, except the phone's screen is the light source)bigger screens like the iPhone 6 will crop since it's a contact print.The guy shakes the fuji instant print, reminiscent of polaroid, but no longer makes any difference, kind of funny.the results will be horrible looking and cropped. Waste of time.

joshuak超过 10 年前

Fun idea. I love it when people think outside of the electronics... and anything that helps keep polaroid film around gets my vote.

isaacdegani超过 10 年前

Just hit 500 backers (and 42% funded) on Kickstarter!

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srik超过 10 年前